376 Annals of the Sotcth African Museum. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 30 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



Genus PEKCIANA. 



Type. 

 Pe7'cm7ja, Wlk. xxxiii. 812 (1856) ... marviorea. 



Sect. I. Forewing of male with veins 3, 4, 5 approximated for some 

 distance, then 5 curved upwards, and towards termen approxi- 

 mated to 6, which is curved downwards, the termen distinctly 

 excised helow apex. 



(1) Perciana toksivena, n. sp'. 



^ . Purplish grey-brown. Forewing with indistinct waved brown 

 subbasal and antemedial lines ; an obHque wedge-shaped dark brown 

 pale-edged mark from middle of costa to lower angle of cell, where 

 it ends in a black spot ; a minutely waved postmedial line excurved 

 from below costa to vein 3, then incurved ; an oblique truncate 

 triangular dark brown pale-edged patch on costa before apex, with 

 two pale points on costa and an indistinct dentate line from it to 

 inner margin ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing brown. 



? . Forewing with the wedge-shaped medial patch shorter, 

 darker, and ending in a larger black spot. 



Hab. West Africa, Gold Coast, Akrapong Mountains (Carter) ; 

 Natal, Victoria District (Gooch) ; Cape Colony (Dr. Smith). Exp. 

 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



This species is closely allied to P. emarcjinata, Hmpsn., from 

 India, which, however, is without the peculiar male neuration of 

 forewing ; they differ from the other species of the genus in the palpi 

 being rather shorter, the antennae nearly simple, the dorsal crests of 

 abdomen slightly developed ; the inner margin of forewing lobed near 

 base and the termen of hindwing sinuous below apex. 



Sect. II. Forewing of male with the neuration normal, the termen 

 hardly excised below apex. 



(2) Perciana lichenosa, n. sp.' 



? . Head whitish, black and green between antennae; palpi 

 irrorated with black and green, the extremity of second joint 

 pinkish ; forelegs marked with green and black, the coxae with red ; 

 the tibiae black with white rings; abdomen white irrorated with 

 black, the dorsal tufts black, small lateral tufts on terminal seg- 

 ments. Forewing sap-green mixed with greyish fuscous and pink ; 

 the medial area grey and pale pink; an indistinct double waved 



