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wing or less clearly ringed, toi*nus with indicatibns of dark 

 markings. Fore wing beneath with the terminal markings 

 weakly indicated, hind wing quite unmarked. 



1909: Mar. 14,-1 $ ; Dec. 30^—1 d (type). 1910: Jan. 2, 

 -1 ?. 



Unfortunately all have lost the hind legs. It is evidently 

 a near ally of V. triplaga Prout, from German East Africa. 



Prasinocyma perpulvekata, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 25, S ■) 



6 $ , 16-21 mm. Palpus in male rather slight for the genus, 

 in female about 1| times diameter of eye, with 3rd joint exposed 

 but rather short for the genus. Antenna of male with the outer 

 pectinations longish, the inner much shorter. Hind tibia of male 

 not dilated, the four spurs closely approximated. Head, body^ 

 and legs concolorous with wings, the vertex appreciably p-iler 

 than the face. Wings rather narrower than in typicul Frasino- 

 C)jma, hind wing not at all bent at R', cells relatively long (fully 

 one-half) ; fore wing with SO' generally free, R^ not or very 

 shortly stalked, M^ connate or very shortly stalked, hind wing 

 with two stalkings. White-grey with a slight tinge of brown ^ 

 coarsely irrorated with fuscous, the irroration under a lens 

 inclining to resolve itself into minute longitudinal strigulse ; 

 cell-spots strong, elongate. Under surface less strongly irrorated.- 



Apparently variable, the name-typical, form, with uniform 

 irroration, the commonest ; here I refer the following : — - 



Mandera.— 1908 : June 1,-1 ? ; July 17,-1 5 ; Sept. 27,- 

 — 1 d , 1 $ . 1909 : May 10,-2 $ , 1 d (type). 



Three females show on the fore wing an ill-defined dark basal 

 patch, dark median band from hind margin about to cell, and 

 dark terminal dashes between the veins : a,b. subfasciata, at), n. 



Mandera.— 1909 : May 10,-1 $ . 1910 : Mar.,— 1 $ (type).- 



Hargaisa.— 1908 : Oct.,— 1 $ . 



One male is smaller (16 mm.) and with still more markings,- 

 the median area being broadly dark-mixed in anterior half, 

 a dark proximal shading (forming a large, strong spot at cOsta) 

 indicating the position of the obsolete subterminal linCj the hind 

 wing somewhat shorter, with distal area somewhat dal-kened, 

 the antennal pectinations apparently continuing slightly less 

 far down the shaft : ab. perScripta, ab. n. (? sp; div.); 



Mandera.— 1908 : July 17,-1 J (type). 



By the length of the cells and the female palpus, as well aS by the 

 facies (which recalls Neromia imlvereisparsa Hmpsn.), joer^ztZyera^a 

 should probably be made the type of a new genus. 



Chlorissa stibolepida (Btlr.)*. 



Comtbcena stibolejnda Btlr. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 394 (1879). 



* [The parentheses around the names of authors place^l after scientific names in 

 this paper are used in accordance witli Article 23 of the International Rules of 

 Nomenclature (Proc. 7th Int. Cong., Boston 1907, p. 44 (1912j).— Editok.] 



