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Female. Testaceous. Head and prothorax on each side with a 

 yellowish stripe and with two hlack lines which extend from the hind 

 border of the eye of the former to the disk of the latter, where the inner 

 pair are slightly angular and extend much beyond the outer pair. Head 

 on each side with two more exterior blackish lines; tip of the vertex 

 scabrous, with a very slight keel and a very slight elevated border on each 

 side; front with two slight parallel keels, which do not extend to the face. 

 Prothorax on each side with an angular black patch, which is deeply 

 notched on the hind side; keel well defined, continuous, of equal height; 

 hind border elongated, acutely angular. Wings cinereous. Fore wings 

 with several irregular brown bands, which towards the tips are merely 

 represented by small patches. Hind wings with a yellow tinge at the base 

 and along the interior border, with a brown middle band and with a brown 

 apical mark. Length of the body 23 lines; expansion of the fore wings 

 40 lines. 



This species has comparatively short wings; the keel of the prothorax 

 is rather higher than that of P. cinerascens, and the hind border is much 

 more elongated and angular. The Abyssinian specimen may be a distinct 

 species; the prothorax is more elongated and angular. 



a. Cape. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



b. South Africa. Presented by R. Trimen, Esq. 



c. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



d. Abyssinia. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



e. ? Presented by Sir J. Liddell. 



Var. Mas. Viridis; caput fronle punctata, verlicis carina facieque 

 ferrugineis, clypei disco albido ; prothorax carina bene determinata 

 viltis duabus fasciaque lata ferrugineis, margine postico valde pro- 

 ducto acute angulalo ; abdomen ferrugineum ; femora postica intus 

 nigro biseriatim punctata; alee anticce cinerece, vilta postica ante- 

 media viridi, venis ferrugineis ex parte albidis ; alee postica diaphance, 

 fascia nigricanle abbreviala. 



Male. Green. Vertex with a slight ferruginous keel; its tip angular 

 on each side, narrower in front, not depressed ; front punctured, witli four 

 slight keels, which diverge a little towards the face; outer keels curved 

 inward; face and clypeus ferruginous, the latter with a whitish disk. 

 Antenna? testaceous, piceous towards the tips. Prothorax finely punctured, 

 with a ferruginous, continuous, rather high, very slightly rounded keel ; on 

 each side a ferruginous stripe, which is connected with a broad ferruginous 

 band, the latter interrupted in the disk ; hind part much elongated, acutely 

 angular. Abdomen ferruginous. Hind femora longer than the body, with 

 two rows of black points on the inner side. Hind tibia? a little shorter than 

 the hind femora, their spines with black tips. Fore wings cinereous, a little 

 shorter than the body, with a green stripe which is near the hind border and 

 extends from the base to half the length ; veins ferruginous, partly whitish. 

 Hind wings pellucid, with a short broad blackish band which extends from 

 the inner angle to the disk; veins black, pale yellow between the band and 

 the base. Length of the body 22 lines; expansion of the fore wings 

 50 lines. 



/. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



