( 420) 



to Prminoci/ma debilis raises a doubt whether the ilelimitation of the genera 

 (ielasmn and Pras/)ioci/m(i is at present satisfoctory ; the palpal and venational 

 structure and the degree of angnhition of the termeu of the hind wing seem to show 

 all kinds of intergradations, and possibly the two will have to be merged together. 

 Turner has already {Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales, xxxv. p. 559) placed one 

 angled-winged species of the present group {centropliylla Meyr.) in Prasinocyma. 



Mount Goliath, January— February 1911 (A. S. Meek), 7 ?¥ in coll. 

 Rothschild. Also a ? from Dinawa, British New Guinea, 4000 ft., August 1902 

 (A. E. Pratt) in coll. Bethnne-Bakcr. 



The curious fact that hicolor and coiiimixta AVarr. (both from Angabnuga 

 River) are only known in the c? and ? sex respectively, and hicolor pricata and 

 xi(binixta Front (both from Mount Goliath) the same, suggests a possibility — in 

 spite of some difficulties — that they may prove to be sexes of a single species, 

 occurring in two distinct races, both rather strongly dimorphic sexually ; in both 

 cases the tail of the hindwing would be slighter in this Mount Goliath race. 



(34. Prasinocyma panchlora spec. nov. 



S 28 mm. .Shape aud colour of vcrmicidaria Guen., diifering in the green 

 lace, more broadly white vertex and uniformly green wings without the whitish 

 strigulation aud without darker green cell-mark. The costal edge of the forewing 

 is narrowly whitish ochreous, perhaps a little paler than in vermicularia. Possibly 

 also the abdomen is a little more slender. From chloroprosopa Prout {Ann. 

 Transc. Mas. 1913, p. 194), to which it comes still closer, paiicklora differs in its 

 somewhat lighter green colour, pale costal edge and absence of the white hind- 

 marginal spot of the forewing. The structure is typical, the hindtibial hair-pencil 

 rather long but slender, white ; forewing with SC anastomosing with (.', R' 

 connate, M' connate ; hindwing with HtT- shortly stalked, M' scarcely stalked. 



Simonstown, Cape Colony, November 1903 (F. de la Garde). Type in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



65. Prasinocyma degenerata spec. nov. 



3 , 20-22 mm. Face and paljius reddish brown ; palpus with second joint 

 reaching just beyond frons, third joint rather short, distinct. Autennal shaft white 

 at base, then ochreous ; pectinations rather long. Vertex green, extremely narrowly 

 edged with white in front. Thorax and abdomen above green, beneath white, 

 anal tuft white. Foreleg re.l above ; (middle legs lost ;) hindleg white, with a 

 short ])encil from end of femur and another from base of tibia ; tarsus abbreviated 

 (one-half tibia). 



Wings moderately opaque green, not strigulated with whitish. Forewing 



with costal edge narrowly pale ochreous ; an indistinct dark green cell-spot ; 



fringe coucolorous proximally, whitish distally. Hindwing the same, except 



costal edge. 



Under-surface unmarked ; of forewing much paler green, becoming whitish 

 green posteriorly ; of hindwing whitish green. 



S.E. Ruwen/.ori, 3500 ft., May 16, 1000 (Hon. (t. Legge and A. F. R. WoUaston). 

 Ty{)e iu coll. lirit. Mus. Also a less perfect 6 from Gabt el-Meghahid, White 

 Nile (H. N. Dunn). 



All inconspicuous little species of a more opaque and less bluish green than 



