PEOTAGEOTIS. 



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Genus PROTAGROTIS, nov. 



Type, P. viralis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and moderately 

 fringed with hair, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, I'Ounded ; 

 antenn:\? of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without 

 crests ; fore tibiaj fringed with hair, n)id tibia; without spines, hind tibi;c with 

 one spine between medial and terminal spurs ; abdomen with some rough hair 

 at base of doi'sum. Fore wing moderately broad, the apex not produced; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle ef cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 fi-om 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked or from cell. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male with long bristles and cilia. 



1125. Protagrotis cuprea. 



Gorti/na cuprea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 50, pi. 6. f. 8 ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 In'd. ii. p. 173. 



Head and thorax vinous red mixed with purplish fuscous, hairs 

 tipped with grey ; pectus more fulvous ; abdomen purple-brown, 

 with the anal tuft and ventral surface more fulvous. Eore wing 

 orange thickh- irrorated with fiery red, the costal area, cell, and 

 postmedial area suffused with purplish fuscous ; the veins with dark 

 streaks ; the subbasal line red, indistinct, waved from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; the antemedial line red, waved, strongly excurved 

 below cell ; elaviform large, defined by red ; orbicular and reniform 



Fig. 124. — 'Protagrotis cuprea, cJ. 



large, defined by red, the former oblique, elliptical, or nearly round ; 

 an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line dark, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 below vein 4 : a dentate orange subterminal line slightly defined by 

 brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at 

 discal and submedian folds ; a fine dark waved terminal line. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; the costal area ochreous ; the cilia pinkish 

 rufous. The underside ochreous suffused with purplish pink ; hind 

 wing with sinuous postmedial line. 



Rah. SiKHiM (Atlcinson), 1 c? cotype, (Dudgeon) ^1 5 . Ewj)., 

 S 40, 2 44 millim. 



