PEOCEIOSIS. 



711 



Geuus PEOCRIOSIS, nov. 



Type, P. dileuca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, short ; frons with large 

 truncate conical prominence with raised edges and small process in centre, a 

 corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenn£e of female almost simple; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the protliorax without crest, the 

 metathorax with depressed crest ; tibite smoothly scaled ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6075. Procriosis dileuca, n. sp. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white mixed with 

 grey-brown, the head rather darker ; pectus and legs white, the 

 tarsi brownish ringed with white, the ventral surface of abdomen 

 white. Fore wing with the basal half yellowish white suffused 

 with grey leaving a white patch beyond the antemedial line from 

 cell to inner margin ; the outer half olive-brown tinged with 

 purplish grey ; traces of a double subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold and of a double waved antemedial line ; a small white 

 spot at upper angle of cell ; a triangular postmedial yellowish 

 white patch on costa, the very indistinct dark postmedial line 



Fig. 202. — Procriosis dileuca, $ . [. 



arising from its apex, strongly bent inwards below vein 4 and 

 oblique to inner margin ; faint traces of a pale aubterminal line 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, with a slight dark streak 

 before it below costa and dark points at middle ; a terminal series 

 of slight dark points. Hind wing yellowish white almost wholly 

 suffused with red-brown, the cilia yellowish white mixed with some 

 red-brown; the underside yellowish white, a diffused antemedial 

 red-brown band, discoidal point, diffused curved postmedial band, 

 and diffused terminal band with rather dentate inner edge. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Voi (Betton), 1 $ type. E.vj). 24 millim. 



