NORTHIA. — PROCRIS. 13 



apex and outer margin black ; a subapical ochreous spot connected internally with the ground- 

 colour ; a lunate black costal marking. Head and thorax black, white-spotted ; abdomen 

 carmine, banded with black; antennae black, with a white spot at the base of the club. 

 Wings below nearly as above, but the spots of primaries yellower. Body below black. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 Hues. 

 Natal. 



NORTHIA, Walker. 



Northia cyanecula. (Plate VII. fig. 8.) 



Nov. gen. cyanecula, Herrich-Schaffer, Aussl. Schmett. i. fig. 224. 



Glaucopis (Northia) nigrigemina, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 141. n. 1 (1854). 



Primaries hyaline white ; base, internal area, margins, veins, and a spot on discocellulars 

 purplish brown : secondaries purplish bi-own, with a hyaline spot, crossed by brown nervures, 

 on the disk. Body black-brown ; crest, collar, aud teguke spotted with glittering metallic 

 green ; antennse metallic blue or green ; anal segments crossed by green or cupreous bands ; 

 anus with a pale ochraceous tuft. Body black-brown below ; the coxae and sides of abdomen 

 green. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



North China : Hong-kong (Bo wring). 



PROCRIS, Fabricius. 

 Procris trimacula. (Plate VI. fig. 8.) 

 Procris trimacula, Walker, Cat. Lep. Hct. i. p. 110. n. 12 (1854). 



Wings dark brown : primaries with three sordid testaceous spots, two across the middle 

 and one subapical. Head, antennse, and thorax black ; collar, tegulae, and abdomen fiery 

 metallic copper-colour ; anal tuft ochraceous. Wings below dark brown, with a subcostal 

 metallic green streak. Expanse of wings 9 lines. 

 Sydney (Lambert). 



Procris tricolor. (Plate VI. fig. 6.) 

 Procris tricolor, Walker, Cat. Lep. Hct. i. p. 111. n. 13 (1854). 



Wings smoky brown, scmitransparent. Body black ; collar crimson ; base of abdomen 

 banded with cream-colour-, subtcrminal segment with a border of the same colour, remaining 

 segments with lateral cream-coloured dots ; venter, with the base and the margins of all the 

 segments, cream-coloured. Expanse of wings 9 lines to 1 inch. 



Tasmania and Australia. 



Procris stipata. (Plate VII. fig. 9.) 

 Procris stipata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ret. i. p. 114. n. 19 (1854). 



Wings black-brown, with a white fringe, sordid in the centre : primaries with two golden- 



