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Page 339. Genus Chrysocyma, nov. 

 Type, C. mesopotamia. 



Proboscis absent; palpi extending to just beyond frons 

 and clothed with long hair ; antennse of male with very long 

 rather widely separated branches ; hind tibiae with one pair 

 of spurs and fringed with long hair on outer side. Fore 

 wing sliort and broad, tlie apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 10 stalked ; 

 9 absent; 10 from near apex, 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 

 stalked ; 8 from towards end of cell. 



714 a. Chrysocyma mesopotamia^ sp. n. 



Deep orange ; antennae with the branches blackish. Fore 

 wing with two subbasal, two antemedial, and two postmedial 

 pale waved lines ; a small blackish discoidal spot. 



Hah. Zanzibar, 1 ^ ; Br. 0. Africa, Chinde {De Jersey), 

 1 c? ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie), 3 c^" type. Exp. 

 24 mm. 



751 a. Prepiella procridia^ sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax fuscous, shot with metallic green ; 

 abdomen fuscous, the tufts on third segment fulvous, the 

 ventral surface shot with metallic green. Fore wing fuscous, 

 the costal half and termen suffused with golden metallic 

 green. Hind wing fuscous brown, the hair on tornal lobe 

 fulvous. 



Hah. Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 1 ^ type. Exp. 

 20 mm. 



754 a. Prepiella radicans, sp. n. 



cJ . Head and thorax yellow ; antennse black except at 

 base ; fore and mid tibiae with black bands ; abdomen yellow, 

 slightly tinged with crimson. Fore wing bright yellow, 

 with slight crimson streaks in discal and submedian folds ; 

 the terminal area tinged with crimson ; a black spot at base 

 of costa, followed by a black streak below costa ; short black 

 streaks on the veins before the antemedial line, which is 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved ; post- 

 medial line irregular, oblique from costa to subterminal line 

 at vein 4, and emitting short streaks on the veins, then finer, 

 retracted along vein 3 to below end of cell near antemedial 

 line, and giving off a fine streak on vein 2, then excurved 



