114 ]\lr. L. B. Prout on new 



have regardeJ this, and not pannosa^ as the Indian race of 

 megcupUaria. 



10. Coinilxena hemictenes, sp. n. 

 (PI. VII. fig. 21.) 



$ .—31-35 mm. 



Face green, in middle with an admixture of red, below 

 rather narrowly white. Palpus as in the other African 

 species. Crown green, with a white line in front. Antenna 

 pectinate, the branches very short, about equal in length to 

 the diameter of the shaft. Tiiorax and abdomen above green, 

 beneath white ; the abdomen dorsally with some red irrora- 

 tion, especially at the edges of the large snow-white spots of 

 the tliird and fourth tergites ; a slight red-brown spot on 

 first abdominal. Legs white, more or less spjtted (the hind 

 pair very weakly) with reddish brown. 



Fore wing bright green, as in leucospilata, Walk., etc. ; 

 costal edge white, shading off to yellowish : lines tine, white; 

 antemedian from SC at o'd mm., slightlj' excurved to SM'-, 

 then slightly oblique outward to hind margin : postmedian 

 from SC^ ar 1 mm. from termen, slightly oblique outward, 

 slightly bent before M^, then straightish to the proximal edge 

 of tornal blotcli at hind margin ; cell-dot small, black, red- 

 mixed ; terminal line strong, red, extending 1 mm. round 

 apex, interrupted by white dots at the veins, beyond M- 

 gradually expanding into a small tornal blotch; fringe white, 

 Avith curved or subtriangular red spots, placed so as to connect 

 the terminal line on the outer side of the white dots. 



Hind icing without the lines ; cell-dot minute ; terminal 

 line and fringe as on fore wing, but with a small apical 

 blotch corresponding to the tornal of fore wing. 



Underside whitish, greener in proximal and costal parts of 

 fore wing, especially subcostally (the costal edge itself white, 

 as above) ; cell-dots and terminal markings (except the tornal 

 bl )fch of fore wing) reproduced : fore wing with the two 

 lines faint gieen, the postmedian crenulate ; hind wing with 

 a fine, rather weak, crenulate postmedian green line, about 

 parallel with termen except after M\ whei'c it runs somewhat 

 obliquely in the direction of the tornus. 



Ivory Coast, type and another. 



Distinguished from leucospilata, Walk., and its race (?) es- 

 nieralda, Warr., by the pectinate antenna. Of rujitorniis, 

 Prout (Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 275), from Earit Africa, which is, 

 perhaps, still nearer, the ? is unknown ; but in that species 

 the ground-colour is strongly strigulated with white. 



