PEOCRIDIA . PHAIJLOSIA. 



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Genus PEOCRIDIA, nov. 



Type, P. metalUca. 



Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi minvite, fringed with hair ; antennae short 

 and greatly dilated, with thick scales at middle ; hind tibise with the medial 

 spurs absent, the terminal spurs minute. Fore wing narrow, the costa arched 

 at middle ; veins 2. 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6. 7, 8 stalked ; 9 absent ; 10 absent ; 

 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 

 5 absent ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



*748. Procridia metallica. 



Odozana metallica, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xli. p. 243 (1897). 



5 . Head and thorax 

 golden metallic green, with 

 some coppery scales ; abdo- 

 men blue-green. Fore wing 

 metallic golden green, the 

 margins bluer; a large 

 orange patch on terminal 

 area. Hind wing fuscous 

 with a bluish tina;e ; a ter- 



Fig. 266. — Procridia metallica, 5 . 



minal ill-defined yellow band narrowing to a point near tornus. 

 Rah. Ecuador, Loja, type t $ in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus PHAULOSIA, nov. 



Type, P. sordida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, not reaching vertex of 

 head ; antenna; of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; abdomen 

 with the anal tuft large. Fore wing rather narrow; vein 2 from beyond 

 middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6. 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of 

 cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 from middle of cell. 



749. Phaulosia sordida. 



Eudoliche sordida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 55 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 300. 



$ . Head and thorax whitish 

 tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 grey. Fore wing white, irro- 

 rated and suffused with reddish 

 brown ; a daik point at lower 

 angle of cell; the apical area 

 without white suffusion, a 



¥\g.2Q'J.-Phaulosia sordida, 2. \. blackish spot at apex. Hind 



wdng pale fuscous. 

 The type is much rubbed. 

 Hah. Amazons, E. Jutahi {Trail), 1 § type. Exp. 14 millim. 



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