PARACCEIi 1 A. — PROC'U: IMA. 
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Fore wing red-brown mixed with some Avhitish and slightly 
irrorated with dark brown ; a minute black spot on subcostal 
nervure near base ; an indistinct dark broAvn antemedial 
line, oblique on costal area, incurved in cell, then waved ; 
a minute black- brown spot in middle of cell ; a whitish 
discoidal striga with slight dark brown mark before it in the 
cell and streak on median nervure ; a large conical chocolate- 
broAvn patch beyond the cell before the white postmedial 
line where it extends to the costa, the line oblique to above 
vein 4 strongly bent inwards with a slight downwards curve 
from below vein 4 to below vein 3, then oblique to middle of 
inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa with 
dark brown between them ; subterminal line whitish defined 
on inner side by diffused dark brown and slightly Avaved 
towards costa, then represented by a series of dark red-broAvn 
marks irrorated with blue-white in the interspaces, oblique 
beloAV vein 3 ; a terminal series of small dark brown terminal 
lunules with a rather triangular mark defined on inner side 
by white at submedian interspace ; cilia chequered red-brown 
and dark brown. Hind wing red-brown, the cilia whitish 
chequered with red-brown to submedian fold. Underside of 
fore wing grey-brown ; hind wing whitish suffused with 
grey-brown, a small dark brown discoidal lunule, faint curved 
slightly waved postmedial line, and faint subterminal shade. 
Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro ( Wilson), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 
millim. 
Genus PROCCERIA , nov. 
Type, P. mesoneura. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in front and 
slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd 
short, porrect, thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with ridge of 
hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with bristles 
and cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with rough scales, 
the metathorax ivith large crest of upcurled scales ; a tuft of 
long hair from beloAV the shoulders, the coxae, femora, and 
tibiae fringed with rather long hair ; build slender ; abdomen 
with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing narrow, the apex 
rectangular, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 
and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 
10 anastomosing Avith 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing Avith the cell half the length of Aving ; veins 3, 4 
shortly stalked ; 5 fully developed from abo\ T e angle of cell ; 
6, 7 from upper angle : 8 anastomosing with the cell to near 
middle. 
