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at tornus. Hind wing white, the veins and apical area tinged 

 with brown, the terminal area tinged with brow'ii in female ; the 

 underside with the apical area slightly irrorated with brown. 



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Genus PRORACHIA, nov. 



Type, P. daria. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching as far as the lurge 

 rounded frontal prominence witli transverse corneous ridge and corneous plate 

 below it ; eyes large, round ; autennie of male ciliated ; taorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the protborax without crest, the metathorax with decum- 

 bent crest; tibiae smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areoie ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoceliulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to about one-third length. 



3847. Prorachia daria. 



Thalpochares daria, Druce, Biol. Centr-Am., Het. ii. p. 497, pi. 95, f. 29 

 (1898); Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 211. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; legs dark brown, 

 the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing 

 grey suffused with red-brown ; subbasal line represented by slight 

 double dark striae from costa; anteraedial line slight, blackish, 

 defined on inner side by whitish, minutely waved from costa to 

 median nervure, then angled outwards in submediau fold and 



Fig. 55. — Frorachia daria, (^ . i. 



inwards on vein 1 ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform with 

 whitish annulus defined by black except above, its centre grey 

 irrorated with brown and defined by brown, constricted at middle 

 and expanding above ; an indistinct oblique brown medial line ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with grey, the inner line blackish, 

 the outer indistinct except at costa, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, very slightly incurved at discal fold, oblique and sinuous 

 below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, grey defined by brown suffusion on inner side, 

 excurved below 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of slight black 

 points. Hind wing w^hitish suffused with red-brown, the veins and 

 terminal area darker; cilia whitish tinged with brown, a slight 

 brown line near base : the underside whitish tinged with rufous, the 



