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olive wrinkles: abdomen black above excepting the tip: fore-wings 

 reddish pitchy, with dingy whitish spois, whicli are most prevalent 

 towards the base : hind-wings dark brown, with a large colourless 

 spot in the disk. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 11 — 

 12 lines. 



a, b. ? 



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Proconia magna. 



Lutea ; caput nigro fasciatiim et vittaturn ; thorax niger luteo ma- 

 culatiis ; abdominis dorsum nigro-ccneum ; pedes rufescentes, 

 femoribus luteis ; alee anticcB riifo-picecB, luteo guttatce, apice 

 fulvce ; ales posticcB fuscee, basi lirnpidce. 



Luteous: head above with slender black bands and stripes, 

 which form imperfect quadrilateral compartmeuts ; two pitchy 

 stripes on the face, united in front and behind, and inclosing an 

 oval compartment, and joining a triangular black spot which rests 

 on the epistoma ; the latter has a black stripe which widens in front 

 and occupies the whole of the tip : mouth ferruginous : chest black : 

 shield with some large luteous spots in front ; angles of the scutcheon 

 luteous; its disk partly luteous: abdomen above bronze-black: 

 legs reddish; thighs luteous; feet pitchy towards the tips: fore- 

 wings reddish pitchy, with a few luteous dots ; middle part covered 

 with whitish powder ; tips tawny : hind-wings dark l)rown ; their 

 disks colourless towards the base, Length of the body 6^ lines ; of 

 the wings 13 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Shuckard's collection. 



16. Pkoconia tenebrosa. 



Ferruginea ; caput nigro vittaturn ; thorax niger, ferrugineo varius ; 

 abdominis discus niger ; pedes, tibiis, tarsisque piceis ; al(B 

 anticce picece, albo plagiata, apice luridcB ; alee posticce fuscce, 

 basi cinerecB. 



Ferruginous : crown with an undulating black band ; front 

 with four oblique black stripes which converge towards the black 

 stripe on the face : chest black ; shield ferruginous in front, its 

 wrinkles olive on each side ; angles of the scutcheon ferruginous : 

 disk of the abdomen black above : shanks and feet mostly pitchy : 

 fore-wings pitchy ; flaps at the base of the hind border bronze- 



