Candida. 
iranquilla. 
paUidulatu ■ 
dcfjcnerata. 
■ini'cr.sicau- 
lis. 
sbniaria. 
angol ica. 
aaipla. 
xanthu pcra. 
schssaria. 
vennica- 
laria. 
neavci. 
tandi. 
pictifim- 
bria. 
panchlura. 
22 PRASIXUCYMA. By L. B. Beout. 
Palpus with the 3rd joint more or less elongate in the Hindwing rounded or bent at the 3rd radial. 
Venation normal. 
P. Candida Front (3 c) is an unmistakable species, the face being black, the wings white, entirely 
without markings. Hindwing rounded. Antennal pectinations short. Expanse 30 mm. Diego Suarez, Mada¬ 
gascar, only known from 
P. tranquilla Front (3 c) is a small species, rather bright green, without strigulation, the rounded 
hindwings recalling a 8yndromo(Ies\ fringes gi’een, tipped with white. Abyssinia, in the neighbourhood of Harar. 
P. pallidulata Mah. appears likely, according to the description, to belong to this genus. 23—24 mm. 
Wings jJale blue-green, slenderly and very aensely vermiculated with white; a common median fascia of a more 
intense and less strigulated green. Fringe similar. Wings beneath white, glossy, costa somewhat yellowish. 
Face red, antennae red. Near vermicularia Guen (2 h). Madagascar. 
P. degenerate Front. Smaller than tranquilla and differing structurally in that the hindtibia of the 
G has a hair-pencil and the tarsus is only one-half as long as the tibia. Face reddish brown. Pectinations 
rather long. Mbngs opaque green, not strigulated; cell-dots indistinct, dark-green. Hindwdng rounded. Fringes 
as in tranquilla (3c). S. E. PuwEnzori. 
P. inversicaulis Front. Groi^p of scissaria (2 h). Face brighter red. Hindtibia without hair-pencil. 
Terminal joint of palpus in G shorter. MTngs slightly narrower; colour slightly darker, the white strigulation 
equally strong. I have only seen the type, from Pinetown, Natal; in this, the stalking of the 3rd radial of the 
hindwing is longer than that of the 1st radial. 
P. simiaria Guen. (= tenuis G TFurr., ex err.) (3 c). Rather smaller and less strongly striated with white 
than vermicnlarm (2 h), the face dull reddish. Probably nearer to scissaria Feld (2 h)., from South Africa, but of 
a less bright, more bluish green, the hindwing more or less angled at the 3rd radial, the G hindtibia with a 
longer terminal process. Described from Senegal, since received from Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast. AVaerex’s 
tenuis (Novit. Zool. 5, p. 16) was founded on a mixture, but his type proves to be the $ (see Androzeugma), 
while his A appears to be a small, narrow-winged simiaria in poor condition. In that case Warri, S. Nigeria, 
is to be added to its range. - angelica snhsp. h. is rather larger (the G<S -6— mm), the wings a little lighter 
colour and j^erhaps more delicate in texture, more rounded. Possibly a seiDarate species, as the terminal joint 
of the G palpus looks still shorter. Founded on 5 P’om Bihe, Angola, in the Tring Museum. Apparently 
similar forms occur in Uganda and Kenya Colony, but I have before me only a few poor specimens. 
P. ampla Warr. is possibly only a giant $-form (39 mm) of the preceding, in which case the name 
ang otic a wiW idA\. Hindwing rounded, as in (2 h). Colour much paler, the white striation being greatly 
increased. PaljJus relatively longer than in simiaria Face brighter red. Bihe, Angola, only the type knowui. 
P. xanthopera Bastelb. founded on a single $ from Banana, Congo, is distinguished from the tw'o 
following by its bright gold-yellow fringes and white face. Costal edge of forewing narrowly sulphur yellow. 
P. scissaria Feld. ( 2 h). Hindtibia of ^ with a hair-pencil but not — as in simiaria —with a long terminal 
process. Palpus of $ with 3rd joint less long than in that species and vermicularia. Face reddish brown. Hind- 
vdng scarcely at all bent at the 3rd radial. Colour bright green; the copious, though small, white strigulae 
suffice to distinguish it from tranquilla and degenerata. Fairly common in Natal and Cape Colony and reaching 
the Transvaal and perhaps East Africa ; type a $ from Grahamstown. 
P. vermicularia Guen. (2h) differs from the allies in having the face green, with a narrow red band 
above. Palpus of the 2 with 3rd joint very long. Hindtibia of ^ with hair-pencil and moderate terminal process. 
M'ings rather thinly scaled; cell-dots indicated in darker green, sometimes with a few black scales. Found 
sparingly in South Africa and to Nyasa and perhaps Kenya Colony. — neavei Frout, founded on a single $, 
is probably a very large ab. of ver7nicularia with the cell-dots black, that of forewdng minute, that of hindwing 
also very small and slender, but slightly jjrolonged along the radial fold. Mount Mlanje. 
P. tandi B.-Bak. differs from vermicularia in its duller face, without red band, in having the white 
strigulae shorter, stronger, showing a tendency to form dots or spots, and in having the fringes spotted with 
white at the veins. Angola. Also known from Kikuyu and Tanganyika. 
P. pictifimbria Warr. (3 d) Rather bright green, the strigidation fairly strong. Hindtibia of G dilated. 
Palpus of $ about as in the two preceding species. Face brownish. Hindwing with termen slightly bent at 
3rd radial. Fringes very characteristic, yellowish, with bright rose-coloured, partly white-mcirgined spots at 
the ends of the veins. Described from Angola but very widely distributed, though always rare. 
P. panchlora Front (3 d). Face green, vertex more broadly white than in vermicularia. The wings 
lack the white strigulation of the allies and the costal edge of the forewing is of a more Avhitish yelloAV. Hindtibia 
