ACKORIODE?. PAEACEOEIA. 281 



Ah. 1. Head, thorax, and basal half of fore wing with the • 

 ground-colour pale ochreous, 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with black fascia above and below median 

 nervure and sinuous black streak above vein 1 between ante- and 

 postmedial lines. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing suffused with black to subterrainal line, the 

 inner area rufous, tlie costal area pale ochreous to postmedial line. 



Hah. Peru, Carabaya, Onconeque {Ockenden), 1 cJ , 1 $ , Quinton. 

 Exjj. 40 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. 



Genus PAEACROEIA, nov. 



Type, P. grheocincta. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2ncl joint i-eaching to 

 about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with large 

 corneous prominence -witli raised edges ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of 

 female somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales and with broad dorsal ridge of rough scales ; tibice moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. JFore wing with the a])ex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate, the inner margin with scale- 

 tooth at middle; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



3893. Paracroria griseocincta. 



Xanlliopiera griseocincfa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 396(1902). 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the latter 

 with grey dorsal fascia, the tegulae and patagia above edged with 

 rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wdng ochreous tinged with rufous, 

 the basal area somewhat browner, the terminal area grey ; subbasal 

 line represented by a curved rufous striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line rufous, strongh' excurved below costa and in suhmedian inter- 

 space, incurved in cell ; orbicular and reniform with faint palo 



Fig. 77. — Faracroria griseocioicta, $. '. 



annuli, the former minute, round, the latter constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, rutous, minutely waved and 

 very strongly excurved, followed by a hardly waved blackish line, 

 then by a rufous line before the grey terminal area which has 

 traces of a very faintly waved curved brownish subterminal line 

 on it ; a line waved black terminal line; cilia grey with a dark 

 line near tips. Hind wing ochreous tinged with red-brown 



