PRASINOCYMA. By L. B. Prout. 
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lines, the post median of the fore wing from middle of hindmargin straight to 2nd median, then strongly 
projecting and running weakly dentate to costal margin; fringe half greenish, half grey-white. Aru, 1 $. 
P. syntyche Prout (4 i). This species and those which follow form a distinct section, bright opaque syntyche. 
green in colour, with red cell-dot and rather closely the facies of the genus Oenospila, from which they 
differ little except in the $ hindleg, syntyche has the cell-dots rather large, the red terminal line broad, 
cut by wdiite dots at the veins, the white costal margin underlined with red from the apex to the base 
of the 5th subcostal; fringe cream-colour, not reddish as suggested by our figure. Dutch and British New 
Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. A race (?) or aberration from Biak. 
P. laticostata Warr. is somewhat larger, the cell-dots small, the red terminal line extremely slender, laticostata. 
the white costal margin broader, in the only very narrowly, in the $ only close to the apex, underlined 
with red. Owen Stanley Range. 
P. floresaria Walk, is generally as large as laticostata, sometimes larger, but has the red markings deve- florcsaria. 
loped more nearly as in syntyche (4 i), yet not so broad as in that species. It seems to be further separable from 
syntyche by its slightly less long palpus. Walker’s type, the only example yet know from Flores, is rather 
large and has the distal margin of the hindwing scarcely bent in the middle. Races from other localities can scar¬ 
cely be satisfactorily differentiated until the typeform is better known; from Celebes I have seen a very similar 
form and a few examples from Borneo, Assam and Yunnan may also be mentioned here. — oxycentra Meyr. oxycentru. 
(13 c), named from North Queensland specimens, may be regarded as including those from Buru, Key Islands, 
New Guinea, the D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiades, etc., and seems to have the hindwing slightly more bent 
than in the name-typical form. 
P. rhodostigma Prout (13 b), which represents the group on the Bismarck Archipelago, has consider- rhodostig- 
ably enlarged cell-spots. The type was from Rook Island. nu 
P. omatifimbria Warr. also has the cell-spots enlarged, but is smaller than rhodostigma, without the omatifim- 
white costal margin, etc. Ysabel Island (Solomons), only the type known. Iir,( 
P. votiva Prout (4i). Size of laticostata or very slightly larger, hindwing a little less bent, colour more votiva. 
yellowish green, fringes brighter yellow, red terminal line very slight and much interrupted. Forewing beneath 
with costal area rather broadly yellow-green, the rest of the underside whitish blue-green. Mt. Goliath. 
P. marginepunctata Warr. (13 c). Larger than the rest of the floresaria- group, the terminal line only margine- 
indicated by red-brow r n dots between the veins; bluer green than votiva, fringes much paler than those of punctata, 
votiva ; costal margin of forewing above, as in that species, white; costal region beneath little differentiated 
in colour. Abdomen above with white dots. British New Guinea; also one $ from New Britain. 
P. ruficollis Prout (4 g) is a larger species with fairly broad (though indistinct) pale lines and re- ruficollis. 
cognizable by the red occiput and redish costal edge of forewing. 3rd joint of palpus in $ very long. Dutch 
New Guinea. 
P. pomonae Warr. (= strigicosta Warr.) (4g as strigicosta). More yellowish green than ruficollis, with pomonae. 
green occiput, hindwing bent in the middle; cell-dots weaker, on hindwing green; terminal dots minute; fringes 
pale. Arfak Mountains (type of pomonae) and Snow Mountains ( strigicosta). 
P. geminipuncta Warr. (13 c) has the face and (though more narrowly than in ruficollis) the occiput gemini- 
red. Discocellulars of forewing sinuous, marked to behind the middle with a red-brown cell-mark, outside which, pi(nc 
at the hinder end, is a black dot. Owen Stanley Range and Mount Goliath. 
P. minutipuncta Warr. (4i). Darker and less yellowish green than the floresaria group and without minuti- 
red markings or white costa. Cell-dots and terminal dots very small, blackish; lines indicated in greyer punc a 
green. Face green. In the name-typical race, from British New Guinea to the Snow Mountains, the fringes 
are green proximally and whitish distally. — In allocraspeda Prout, from N. W. New Guinea, the fringes allocraspe- 
are yellow. 
da. 
P. tenera Warr. Slightly broader winged than minutipuncta (4 i), yellower green, the lines more olive- tenera. 
brownish, more widely separated, the terminal dots obsolete. Face red. Owen Stanley Range. The genus Endemia 
Warr., based on this species, appears to be untenable. 
P. vagrans Prout. Much smaller than vagabunda (4 h), the markings somewhat more heavily dotted vagrans. 
in places with rust-colour, the postmedian line right-angled on the 1st median vein. Hindtibia of $ less 
dilated. Mount Goliath. 
P. vagabunda Warr. (4 h). Easily recognized by its colour, its yellow-brown lines and zigzag cell- vagabunda. 
marks. Owen Stanley Range and Weyland Mountains. 
