( 2:iV ) 



Underside whitish green, with the blark Idotch on lorewings lunl the iiiial 

 blotch on hindwings showing through, the basal dark markings being obsolete. 



Face and paljii pale reddish brown above, wiiitish below ; vertex and antennae 

 white ; shonlders jiale green, their tips and the patagia olive brown : abdomen 

 with crests black-brown above, the anal tuft ochreons, like the underside of 

 abdomen. 



E.xpanse of wings : 4U mm. 



One S from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, end of August IS'.iT (Ur. lloth). 



Closely resembling in certain points A', palliate, taken also at Warri, nf which 

 it may possibly prove to be a seasonal form. 



37. Thalassodes nigripunctata Warr., Nov. Zoul. IV. p. 46 6- 



In a ? of this species from Kampala, Uganda, taken in .January Is'.tT, in the 

 dry season, by Dr. Ansorge, and in very good condition, there is a small spot of 

 white scales edged externally with black, at the mi(hlle of inner margin of lorewings, 

 by which the species may be readily recognised. Prasinoci/ma anipuncta Warr. 

 from Weenen, Natal, has a similar spot nearer the anal angle, but that inse(tt is 

 much smaller — 19 mm. — and has the cell-spot dark green. 



38. Victoria perornata sp. nov. 



Forewings : deep green ; costal area above sulicostal vein deep red, sprinkled with 

 black and a few white scales ; basal two-fifths deep green, near base dappled with white 

 scales ; its edge nearly vertical, but oblicjue outwards at inner margin : followed by 

 an irregularly semicircular white hyaline space, extending from subcostal vein to 

 submedian, containing a small green sjiot on the middle of the discocellnlar near its 

 inner edge, and near its outer edge three black dots on the lower veins indicating 

 the exterior line ; this hyaline space is succeeded from below vein 6 by a broad 

 curved area of grey and Ijlack scales ; submarginal line represented by two large 

 white oblong blotches on either side of vein 7, and a lunulate one between 3 and 4 at 

 the edge of the grey-scaled i)atch ; slight groujis of white scales on each side of the 

 vein-ends before hiudmargin ; fringe grey, with a darker central line. 



llinfhcings : with the postmedian line blackish and acutely dentate, the green 

 area immediately be3-ond it speckled with black and white atoms : the white hyaline 

 blotch restricted to the space between veins 4 and (J, with the costal space above it 

 speckled grey and white ; the submarginal line marked by oblong white patches 

 beyond cell and on submedian interspace, that next anal angle centred with black ; 

 fringe and hiudmargin as in forewings ; the cell-spot blackish ; inner margin with 

 rufous grey fringe. 



Underside whitish ochreous ; forewings with the costal and cell areas rufous, 

 the inner margin iridescent ; a broad blackish submarginal fascia, swollen between 

 veins 4 and 6, to hiudmargin externally and towards cell internally; a submarginal 

 row of dark blotches between the veins ; an ochreous grey marginal line : fringe 

 ochreous ; hindwings the same, but the submarginal band broad thrcuighdut ; the 

 costal area and base of cell also fuscous-tinged. Head and pectus red-brown : 

 forelegs fuscous black : thorax green ; abdomen rufous, the first crest darker than 

 the rest. 



Expanse of wings : 4() mm. 



One ¥ from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, September l6'J7 (Ur. lloth). 



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