PRASINOCYMA. By L. B. Protit. 23 
of with a slender hair-pencil and rndiinentary terminal jn-ocess. J)escril)ed from Cape Colony, known also 
from Orange Free Staate. 
P. chloroprosopa Front is very near panchJora (3 d) but of a rather deejier green, the costal edge narrowly rhlorojiro- 
ochreons at base, becoming more red-brownish. ^ unknown, $ palpus wiht 3rd joint long, as in vermicularia 
and pancMora. Distinguished especially by having a white spot at the middle of the hindmargin of the fore wing. 
Hindwing with distal margin very slightly bent. Johannesburg, also Orange Free State and the Cape. 
P. unipuncta Warr. closely resembles a small scissaria (2 h) but has the face rather more reddish and is mtipunrffi. 
characterized by a white spot at the middle of the hindmargin of forewing which — nnlike that of chloroprosopa 
— is bounded distally by some brown and black scales. Only the type is yet known from Durban and this has 
unfortunately lost the hindlegs; bnt a rather larger form which seems to agree is not rare in Kenya and 
Tanganyika Territory and has a hindtibial pencil and short terminal process. 
P. gemniatimargo Front (3 d). A rathei' small species, with reddish face. Palpus in the d' rather short, ficinmati- 
in the $ fully twice as long as diameter of eye, with long terminal joint. Hindwing scarcely angled at 3rd radial. »aii-go 
Colour somewhat bluish green, thinly scaled, with rather strong white dots and short strigulae; characteristic 
is a row of white dots on the ends of the veins; forewing with a white spot on hindmargin. Described from the 
Cameroons, but reaches Sierra Leone. A few specimens which f have seen from Uganda have the terminal dots 
small, perhaps a separate race. ^ 
P. oblita sp. n. (3e) occurs together with the preceding, of which Y should have supposed it a form ohlita. 
but that the ^ palpus appears still longer, its terminal joint almost as long as diameter of eye. On an average 
rather larger (31 -34 mm), the white strigulation scarcely so strong, t e r m i n a 1 d o t s wanting. Founded 
on 1 and 4 $$ from Bingerville, Ivory Coast, in Mus. Tring; also known fi'om the CAmeroons, Congo, Uganda 
and Abyssinia. 
P. niphosporas sp.n. (3 f). FI Face pale green. Palpiis little longer than diameter of eye. mphospo- 
Antennal pectinations moderate, ceasing little beyond middle of shaft. Hindtibia not dilated, the spurs 
apjDroximated. Distinguishable from the following species by the hindtibia, the shorter palpus and the neater 
white maculation of the wings. Minute cell-dots present. Fringes pure white in middle, green proximally, grey 
distally. N. W. Kivu; Higher Oso Valley, 5000 feet, September 1921 (T. A. Barns), type in coll. Joioey. 
2 (Jc? from lava plains beneath Birunga Volcanoes, 5000 feet, March 1924 (Mrs. Barns) in the same collection. 
P. albinotata Front (3 d), originally described as an aberration or race of rugistrigiUa, seems to be a nlhinotata. 
good species, the cell-dots obsolete or nearly so, a white sjiot present on hindmargin of forewing. Hindtibia 
of dilated, with hair-pencil and rudimentary terminal process. Gold Coast (the type), Cameroons and Congo. 
P. rugistrigula Front. 40 mm. Face dull reddish, mixed with green. Hindwing shaped about as in the rngistrigula 
two preceding species. Smooth dull green (perhaps between “tea-green” and “sea-green” of Ridgavay) with 
the whitish strigulae coarse, irregular. Cell-marks black-brown, longitudinally placed on the radial fold, that 
of the hindwing with a dark green mark in front of it. Foi’ewing without white ])osterior spot. Hindleg formed 
as in albinotata. Gold Coast. 
P. germinaria Guen. (3 d) is variable in size and in its shade of green, or perhaps includes a mixture gcnuinaria 
of closely allied species. Generally moderately large and rather bright green, not very strongly strignlated; 
Guenee’s type was “35 mm, d’un vert de montagne”. The face is red and the only markings are the small bnt 
sharply black cell-dots. Palpus moderate. Desciibed from, Abyssinia but widely distributed, Nigeria, Uganda, 
E. and 8. Africa. 
P. dorsipunctata Warr. I have not seen Warren’s type, from Pinetown, Natal, bnt have little doubt dorsipunc- 
as to the determination of some faded from the same district. 31—34 mm. “Face olivegreen, possibly 
faded”, a white dot on each of the three middle segments [tergites]; wdngs semihyaline grey-green, with dense 
pale strigulations; cell-spots red-brown, on hindwing triangular, large; fringe green. I call the cell-spots 
blackish, that of the hindwing somewhat rounded proximally, pointed distally. Hindwing scarcely bent at 
3rd radial. Perhaps an ah. of germinaria, wdth the cell-spot of the hindwing enlai'ged, but the colour of the 
face renders it doubtful. 
P. idiotica sp. n. d', 34 mm. Face green (mostly discoloured). Length of palpus fully W/o tfru^s diameter idiofica. 
of eye, 3rd joint rather elongate, about of -od joint. Pectinations not very long (the longest about 4 times 
width of shaft), ceasing about the 29th joint. Hindtibia with rather strong pencil and very short terminal 
process. Wings rather thinly scaled, dark bluish glaucous, w'ith cell-dots rather less large than in dorsipunctata. 
Very similar to that species, the palpus apparently longer, the distal margin of hindwdng slightly more bent. 
N. W. Kivu; UiTper Oso River, 4000 feet, February 1924 (T. A. Barns). Type in coll. Joicey. 
P. transita sp. n. 33 mm. Face reddish brown. Length of iialjms 1^4 times diameter of eye. Antennal iransUa. 
pectinations rather oblicpiely placed; not very stoirt, the outer series about 5 times the length of diameter of 
