PROCRIS. By H Reiss. 
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5. Genus: 'Procris F. 
a. Species with setiform antennae. 
P. pekinensis Draes. (la). is very similar to P.elegans Pouj. ( Vol. 2, plate 1 d) however easily pekinemis. 
differentiable by the yellow hairstreaks on both sides of abdomen. Peking, the type is illustrated from a 
specimen in the Dresden Museum. 
P tenuicornis Zell. var. minutissima Oberth. is a small race from Geryville and Aflu in Algeria. Larvae 
of the algerian tenuicornis in May: head small, black and glossy, it can be withdrawn into the prothorax on 
which is a thick rounded scutellum which is black and pointed anteriorly and which one might consider to be 
the head when same is withdrawn. Colour dark grey, the skin sprinkled with quite minute black dots. On 
the back of each segment there is a black-brown triangular spot. The dorsal line is bordered by a whitish 
slightly undulating line. The grey-brown warts have short white-grey hairs. 
minutis¬ 
sima. 
P. anatolica Naufock (1 a). Shape and wing contour fairly similar to chloros but forewings more truncate anatolica. 
at apex, densely scaled, brownish-olivegreen with dull gloss. Hindwings with shorter inner margin than chloros, 
apex of’fore wings rather narrower. They do not appear to be so triangular as chloros in shape, being blackish 
with denser scaling in anal fold and at margin. Fringes blackish. Head and thorax glossy gold, abdomen 
blackish on underside glossy bronze, more robust in the $ than chloros. Tips of antennae in the £ more truncate, 
the last 3 joints of the pectinations often grown together; in the $ somewhat more robust than in chloros, not 
appearing weaker at base and serrated throughout. Genital apparatus with simple clasping flaps without any 
tooth or thorn. The last abdominal segment of the has ventrally a very wide chitinous belly plate, that projects 
strongly over the genital aperture, which is fairly well rounded at the upper corners and indented m the middle. 
The vaginal segment of the $ i s not withdrawn as in chloros before the vagina, leaving same uncovered, but is 
an almost straight sheath covering same completely. Ak-Shehir (Asia Minor) and Syria at the beginning of 
June. The specimens illustrated are Cotypes from Ak-Shehir (from Naufock s Collection). 
P globulariae Hbn. (Vol. 2, p. 8). Vorbrodt describes as ab. azurea a larger form with more sparsely azurea. 
scaled forewings with beautiful blue-green shining gloss, from Biasca. 
b. In the following Species the Antennae of the SS have at least 3 joints 
besides the last joint without free pectinations. 
P. pamirensis Pimps. (1 b). The S' resembles dolosa (Vol. 2, plate 1 i) and has similar antennae but it is pamiren-sis. 
without blue or green on the underside of the wings. Head and thorax are golden green with an inclination 
to copper colour. Abdomen blackish. Forewings golden green with blackish brown fringes, hindwings blackish- 
brown somewhat thinly scaled. Alitshur (Pamir). We illustrate the type from the British Museum. 
P. orana Aust. (Vol. 2, p. 9). Subsp. algirica Rothsch. (1 b) from the Province Constantine (Djebel algirica. 
Chelia, Djebel Marcouna, surroundings of Batna in June) is larger and of richer colouration. Fore wings have 
both blue and green as well as golden green dusting. Specimens illustrated are from the Museum at Tnng_ 
P. statices L. (Vol. 2, p. 9). Rothschild has given the name subsp. prasina (1 b) to a larger, metallic prasina. 
brassy-green form with long and thick antennae from Ain Draham in June. I he specimen illustrated is fiom 
the Museum at Tring. — ab. obscura Reuss are specimens with blackish-grey wings with a faint bluish sheen instead obscura. 
of the metallic shining green scaling: from Biesenthal (Mark Brandenburg). 
P. jordani Naufock (lb) is smaller than statices : <3 very variable in size, very thinly scaled, uniform jordam. 
golden green with a touch of bluish on fore wings and brownish grey hindwings. Fringes grey as m statices , 
forewings somewhat narrower, otherwise of the same form and shape, Hindwings not more thinly scaled 
towards the base, of similar shape to those of geryon, but more transparent. Head and thorax golden green, 
often with bluish gloss. Abdomen glossy, robust and heavy. Antennae shorter than in statices and geryon, 
pectinations of the 9 last joints grown together. Anal clasp of the has in the middle of the lower edge a long 
spine-like process, that is bent inwards at a right angle like a hook. The belly plate of the 7th segment does 
not reach the edge of the aperture of the abdomen. The $ is not much smaller than the o'. Form and colouration 
as in the antennae distinctly clavate with lamellae weakly serrated and also very short. San Ildefonso, 
Province Segovia and Sierra Nevada in Spain at the end of June. The Cotypes from San Ildefonso (from 
Naufock’ s Collection) are illustrated. 
P. albanica Naufock (1 b, c). Smaller than micans (Vol. 2, plate 1 k). Forewings yellow green, somewhat albanica. 
shining. Scaling not so dense as in micans. Contour of wings similar to that of micans and geryon. Hindwings 
