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PRA8IN0CYMA. By L. B. Protjt. 
gem ill aid. 
haic.'^i. 
palcln'arut. 
xangahi'i- 
ro^ia ■ 
ilolterii/!. 
nlgr'naa- 
caia. 
neglccid. 
rougrdd. 
digripiitic- 
idid. 
nandicn.^i'if!. 
deltcuiarta. 
)U]jhohold. 
jefieryt. 
phaft. Hindtibia with hair-pencil and short process, the spurs rather approximated. Forewing with rather 
co 2 :>ious, fairly regular, short white strigulae; apparently transitional towards rhodocycla (3 a); hind’ning 
more rounded; cell-dots smaller and browner; no white spot at hindmargin of foreAving. Palpus, pectinations 
(continuing well beyond the 30th joint), wing-shape and brighter green colouring distinguish it from idiotica. 
\y. Kivu: S. side of Middle Lowa Valley, 8. of Walikali, 3500 feet, forest land, March 1924 (T. A. Bakxts), only 
the type known, coll. Joicey. 
P. geminata Prout (3 d). Broad-winged, rather bright green, costal edge of forewing pink. Face'green, 
only with a red line at U 2 )per edge. Hindtibia of with hair-jrencil. Hindwing appreciably, though weakly, 
angled; a quite distinctive ]) a i r of black cell-dots; both wings with minute dark terminal dots. Kenya Colony. 
P. batesi sp. n. 33 mm. Face bright green. Palpus red, with terminal joint short. Hindtibia scarcely 
dilated. Wings shajoed and coloured nearly as in geminata, the hindwing a little more angled, the colour perhaps 
a little lighter, with costa scarcely so rosy; cell-mark of hindwing single, though somewhat elongate. Fringes 
as in trijilijimhrio. Cameroons: Fumban, 4000 feet, Se^Member 1922 (G. L. Bates). Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 
P. pulchi'aria Stvinh. (3 e) is another bright-green species with pink costal edge, but has the face red 
and the hindwing rounded. Hindtibia not dilated. Cell-dots small. Not rare in Kenya Colony. Also known 
from Nyasa and the Transvaal. 
P. sanguinicosta Prout. 27 mm. Differs from all the other s])ecies in having the costal edge of the 
forewing broadly bright-red. Hindtibia with hair-jDencil. Wings shaped, coloured and strigulated nearly as 
in the scissaria groiqi, hindwing rounded, minute cell-dots jmesent. Khartum, only the type known. 
P. dohertyi Warr. (3 e). Larger and jDerhajAS still broader than geminata, antenna more pink, structure 
more nearly as in pulchraria-, the 2 >iuk costal edge mixed with blackish; cell-dots large, brownish; terminal 
dots strong. Kikuyu Escarpment (loc. typ.), Ruwenzori and Ruanda. 
P. nigrimacula Prout. As broad-winged as geminata, hindwing similarly shap)ed. Costal edge buff, not 
pink. Cell-dots single, fairly large, terminal black dots small. C'haracterized by an additional, large black dot 
at hindmargin of forewing just beyond the middle. The hindlegs are lost in l)oth the knoAATi (^(^. Uganda 
(tyqie) and Nairobi; ( ?) Angola (a damaged $ Avith unusually short terminal joint of jAalpus). 
P. neglecta Pront (3 e). Brighter green than most of the similar s^iecies. Face reddish, slightly 
sjR’inkled Avith green; a narroAv Avhite band beloAV. PaljAus in $ as in gemmatimargo. Hindtibia of ^ AAuth Avhite 
hair-])encils and very short terminal process. In some aberrations the composite hindmarginal spot of the 
foreAA’ing is reduced. Described from Urindi district, Tanganyika, but is very widely distribiited from Nigeria 
and Angola to the Great Lakes and into Nyasaland. 
P. congrua Wall'. (2 h), founded on a faded from “Congo”, Avas treated by Savinhoe as identical AAuth the 
folloAving sjAecies, but seems to have the 3rd joint of the pal 2 )us definitely shorter (f-j of 2nd joint), terminal 
process of hindtibia also shorter, unless damaged (apjoears only L 3 length of 1 st tarsal joint). I believe I have 
matched it from Kiimasi, 8 . Cameroons and Bopoto (Upper Congo), but the grouj) is exceedingly difficidt 
and stands in need of more exhaustive study. 
P. nigripunctata Warr. (3 e). Blue-green, duller than neglecta, the Avhite strigulae short, in 
juinctiform, not very strong. Face red-brown. Palj^us in ^ Avith 3rd joint I /2 length of 2nd, in $ very long. 
Hindtibia of with hair- 2 )encil and a moderate terminal jArocess, fully half the length of 1st tarsal joint; tarsus 
shorter than in neglecta. C'ameroons; apjAarently distril)uted as far as 8ierra Leone and jAerhaps Plnyoro. 
nandiensis form. n. ( ? suhsp.). seems to l)e a larger race of nigripunctata (cJ(J 33—10 mm, against 30— 35 mm 
for the bVest African race) from Ran, Nandi Country, 9 in Mus. Tring (Ax.sorge). 
P. delicataria Mdscld., founded an a faded from Aburi, Gold Coast, is similar to the two jmeceding, 
but the face seems to be green and the jialpus perhap)S still shorter than in congrua. Hindtibia! jn'ocess nearly 
as long as in nigripunctata. Hind wing slightly naiTower and more angled, recalling Thalassodes. Cell-dots A^ery 
small; minute terminal dots (scarcely visible) at the ends of the veins. 
P. niphobola sp. n. (J, 43 mm. Face green. Palpus U/j. Antennal pectinations rather stoAit, aboiit 
3 times as long as diameter of shaft. Abdominal tergites each AAdth a Avhite anterior sjAot. Hindtibia AA'itli hair- 
jAencil, but Avithout process. Wings with the AAdiite irroration more punctiform than strigulate, some dots in, 
behind and just beyond the cell someAvhat enlarged; minute dark cell-dots and terminal dots; foreAA’ing AA'ith 
a large Avhite sjAot at hindmargin beyond middle marked exteriorly Avith grey-broAvn; fringes green, AA'ith Avhite 
spots at the veins. Hindwing fairly broad, with Avell-marked, though not acute, angle at 3rd radial. bV. Kivu: 
Upi^er Lowa Valley, near Masisi, 5000— 6000 feet, February 1924 (T. A. Barns), the unique type in the 
Joicey collection. Differs from rugistrigula in the larger AA'hite spots, the sjiotted fringes, etc. 
P. jefferyi sp. n. 36 mm. Face bright green, Avhitish beloAv, a red line above. Length of paljms not 
quite 1 % diameter of eye, Avith terminal joint rather short; reddish broAvn, beneath Avhite. Antennal jiectinations 
