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men yellow. Sikkim, Nepal, Punjab, and N. W. Himalayas; the form decorata Btlr. from Japan is not identical decorata. 
with the Indian, being larger and paler, less green; the hindwing more largely yellow, the dark streaks along 
inner margin and submedian fold often quite obsolete. 
12. Genus: Proteuxoa limps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment fringed with hair 
beloAV, the third short; thorax with slight tufts; a single spine on hind tibiae between the spurs. 
Type P. mniodes Hmps. An Australian genus containing only two species. 
Sect. I. Antennae of $ bipectin ate to apex. 
P. mniodes Hmps. Forewing grey with fuscous speckling; subbasal and inner lines double, black, mniodes. 
waved; the inner angled outwards in cell and excurved above inner margin; outer line minutely waved, excurved 
to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line pale, Avith a connected series of black marks preceding it; a terminal 
series of black points; claviform stigma black, conical; orbicular and reniform grey, Avith pale annuli and black 
outline, the cell black between and before them; hindwing fuscous grey. Broken Hill, N. S. Wales. Described 
from a single <§. 
Sect. II. Antennae of $ ciliated. 
P. amaurodes Hmps. Forewing grey with fuscous irroration; the lines indistinct, double; the inner cimaurodes. 
waved, outcurved between the veins; the outer minutely dentate, oblique inwards below vein 4, Avith an inward 
angle on submedian interval; subterminal line emphasised by fuscous suffusion preceding it; a row of black 
dots along termen; stigmata indistinct; the orbicular a brownish-edged white dot; the reniform a black lunule 
broader below, edged with ochreous or grey scales; hindwing whitish suffused with brown, except in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of the cell; veins brown; fringe AA'hite with a grey line. Tasmania. 
13. Genus: Propatria Hmps. 
Distinguished from Proteuxoa by the frons haAdng a large truncate conical prominence Avith a corneous 
rim; the palpi with third segment longer, thrown forward; antennae of $ finely pubescent; the mid and hind 
tibiae Avith a few spines; all the tibiae fringed with hair; veins 6, 7 of hind wing shortly stalked. 
Type P. neuroides Swinh. Like the last, a small Australian genus. 
P. neuroides Swinh. (8 f). ForeAving lilac grey dusted with darker, and Avith pale brown suffusion along neuroides. 
both folds and before termen; the veins dark; the lines indistinct, except above inner margin; the inner strongly 
dentate betAveen veins; the outer lunulate dentate; claviform stigma long and slender, pale broAvn with black 
outline; orbicular flattened, filled up AA r ith broAvn and fuscous in a pale outline; reniform erect, constricted 
externally, Avith dark vertical centre and pale annulus; a row of long wedge-shaped black marks before subter¬ 
minal line, the terminal area beyond them brown; fringe dark lilac grey, with fine white pencils beyond veins; 
hinchving white with the veins terminally dark; the fringe Avhite, Avith the base grey especially towards apex; 
the $ has more grey suffusion. W. Australia. 
P. mundoides Hmps. (8g). Forewing dull rufous brown speckled with pale; the rufous tint stronger mundoides. 
along the folds; veins towards termen blackish; lines indistinctly edged with paler; the inner strongly dentate; 
the outer also dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique inwards, Avith a stronger indentation on submedian 
fold; claviform long, outlined in black; orbicular and reniform dark-centred, with pale rings edged AA r ith black; 
the orbicular flattened; hindwing white, the veins and inner margin tinged with brown; termen fuscous from 
apex to vein 2, more broadly hr the $. N. S. Wales, Victoria, S. Australia. 
14. Genus: Ectopatrla Hmps. 
Distinguished from the tAvo preceding genera by the frons, Avhich shoAVS slight vertical ridges; the palpi 
are porrect, elongate, fringed beloAV with hair; hind tibiae Avitlr from 1 to 3 spines betAveen the spurs; antennae 
ciliated; metathorax slightly tufted. Type E. subrufescens Walk. The genus, like the tAvo previous, is mainly 
Australian. 
E. paurogramma Hmps. (8g). Forewing grey irrorated AAdth brown and black; the ordinary markings pauro- 
obsolete; an outer line is just traceable, curved outwards above middle, then oblique inwards; black streaks 9 ramma ' 
in both folds; veins towards termen black; hindwing whitish Avith the termen fuscous. W. Australia. 
E. spilomata Hmps. (8 g). ForeAving rufous ochreous with darker irroration; the cell and space beyond, spilomata. 
broadening to costa and middle of termen, except for an apical blotch, dark brown; veins dark broAvn towards 
termen; orbicular and reniform stigmata AA r hite, the former small, the latter with broAvn centres; hindwing 
whitish washed with rufous, the veins darker. BlackAvood, Victoria; described from a single $. 
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