138 New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Barns 



the different species, which may ultimately have to be sorted out 

 largely by this character. The other African species known to me all 

 have more black on the hind wing above and on the under surface 

 than eiiryzona. 



This subfamily does not appear to me to belong to the Noctuidae 

 at all, being very distinct, not only in the possession of a maxillary 

 palpus but also in the hair-pencil on hind-tibia (entirely distinct in 

 character from anything known to me in the true Noctuidae) and in 

 the neuration of the fore wing, the cell being very narrow and near 

 middle of wing, with SC 1 arising near base, SC 2 from well before 

 middle of wing, SC 3 , SC 4 , SC D , and R l all free and more or less parallel 

 with one another. The basal orifice of the abdomen does not appear 

 to be at all in the Noctuid position. _. 



IV.— NEW GEOMETRIDAE. 



By L. B. PROUT, F.E.S. 



HEMITHEINAE.. 



1. Prasinocyma neglecta, sp. nov. (Text fig. 17). 



17. Prasinocyma neglecta 3 . 



$ 2 , 33, 36 mm. 



Face dull red-brown, with a few green scales, below with a narrow 

 white band. Palpus in $ about 1|, with third joint moderate, in ? 

 at least 2, with third joint long ; first joint and underside of second and 

 third white, second joint above light brown, third more reddish. Crown 

 green, only extremely narrowly white in front ; antennal shaft white 

 to near middle, then light brown, more or less tinged with red; pectina- 

 tions in ? moderate, light ochreous. Thorax and abdomen above 

 green, beneath white ; the abdomen with traces of minute white medio- 



