PRASINOCYMA. By L. B. Prout. 
P. albicosta Walk. (= bicolora T. P. Luc., rufitincta Warr., flavicosta Warr.) (12 a). Green with whitish albiraUa. 
costal edge and very fine and copious whitish strigulation, much like a small Thalassodes with very faint or 
obsolete line (postmedian) and very weakly bent hindwing. N. and E. Australia, Key Islands, New Guinea 
and Loyalty Islands. 
P. iseres Turn, is unknown to me. Very like albicosta (12 a), but with the palpus shorter (only as long iseres. 
as the diameter of the eye) and with the fringes green, whereas in albicosta they are white. Founded on a 
single <£ from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. 
P. ocyptera Meyr. (13 b) is recognizable by its delicate, bluer green colouring, more oblique distal ocyptcra. 
margin of forewing, less bent distal margin of hindwing, etc. The white strigulation is faint, but discernible. 
Queensland and West Australia. The specimens recorded by Warren from the Key Islands belong to albicosta. 
P. semicrocea Walk. (= intermixta Walk., decisissima Walk., subalpina T. P. Luc.) (13 b). Brighter semicrorm. 
green, not strigulate, and with rose-coloured fringes, like some Ghlorocoma; the white lines visible, though 
weak; dentate. Brisbane to Tasmania. 
P. vagilinea Prout is similar to exililinea (4 f) but with the antemedian line of the forewing also zigzag, vagilinea. 
the abdominal margin of the hindwing with a small flesh-coloured streak which reaches the anal angle. Ground¬ 
colour slightly deeper green. New Guinea, Ceram and Buru. 
P. exililinea Warr. (4 f). Palpus in both sexes — as also in the closely allied vagilinea — rather long exililinea. 
and slender, with long terminal joint. Neither species is at all variable. New Guinea. 
P. pratti Prout (12 a) somewhat recalls ar Dioscore. Easily known by its shape, the course of the post- yrutti. 
median line and the sharply spotted fringes. Hindtibia of dilated, with slender hair-pencil. Weyland Moun¬ 
tains, Dutch New Guinea. 
P. absimilis Warr. Of the name-typical form, from Etna Bay, only Warren’s somewhat discoloured absimilis. 
type (?) is known, but I provisionally unite with it a few examples from Ceram and Buru. The posterior 
white postmedian spot of the forewing is much larger than in — semimacula Prout (13 b) from New Ireland, semimacula 
The species has a rather loosely-scaled face, moderate palpus and slender <§ hindtibia. 
P. simplex Warr. (= reversa Warr.) (4 b). Much larger than absimilis (46—48 mm), the white vein-dots simpler. 
larger, more or less elongate, without a stronger one at hindmargin; hindwing with a white discocellular 
spot at the base of the 2nd radial. $ unknown, $ palpus long. Dutch New Guinea and Ceram. 
P. dioscorodes Prout (4 h). Slightly larger still and of a much darker and duller colour — greyish dioscorodes 
blue-green. Both wings with blackish cell-dot; fringes tipped with whitish, proximal ly dark, blackest at the 
vein-ends, where absimilis and simjrlex show white spots. Mount Goliath, also 1 $ from the Weyland Moun¬ 
tains, Dutch New Guinea. 
P. marina Warr. (13 b) and the 6 species which follow are all of medium size and of similar colouring, marina. 
with dark cell-dots, and require a little care for their discrimination, marina is the only one with large white 
hindmarginal spot on fore wing. Owen Stanley Range, Mount Goliath and the Weyland Mountains. 
P. serratilinea Warr. (4 h) differs from the rest of the group in the stronger and deeply dentate white sermtili- 
lines; cell-dot of forewing rather larger than in vestigiata (4 h). Snow Mountains. — ultima Prout. is generally . nea 
rather larger (35—39 mm), rather darker, with more definite dark shadings in the median area against the " ln ' "' 
lines; cell-dots black; antemedian line of forewing less deeply dentate, postmedian with a still deeper indent¬ 
ation behind the 2nd median. Perhaps a separate species. Weyland Mountains. 
P. vestigiata Warr. (4 h) has the lines also white, but only feebly dentate; distal margin with black vestigiata. 
vein-dots; fringes buff. Owen Stanley Range and Mt. Goliath. 
P. annexa Prout is rather larger than vestigiata (4 h), with rather longer palpus, no white dots on annexa. 
the abdomen (lost in our figure of vestigiata, but always present in that species), lines broken into sharp white 
cell-dots. Weyland Mountains. 
P. sororcula Warr. (4 g). Slightly less opaque green than vestigiata, the fringes predominantly green, sororcula. 
only at the extreme tips buff; cell-dots small but sharp. Hindwing slightly more angled than in most of the 
group. British and Dutch New Guinea. 
P. fratema Warr. Exceedingly similar to sororcula (4 g), on an average larger and slightly darker green, fraterna. 
chiefly distinguished by the more undulating and dentate post median line. The lines are weaker than in 
serratilinea (4 h), the antemedian not zigzag, the wings broader. Owen Stanley Range and Weyland Moun¬ 
tains. 
