Pabl. 9. r. 1930. 
PRASINOCYMA. By L. B. Prout. 
rather long and slender. Hindleg and abdominal spots as in nvphohola. Porewing with apex rather acute; 
bright green, as in gemmata (3 d), the white strigulae short but numerous, the costal edge buff, tinged with 
pink; cell-dot minute; hindmarginal spot moderate, white proximally, red and blackish mixed distally; fringe 
proximally green with white spots, distally whitish. Hindwing moderately angled; cell-dot and fringe as on 
forewing. Kenya Colony: Lumbwa, October 1923 (G. W. Jeffery), type in coll. Brit. Mus. A very worn 
^ from Lualaba Valley, Belgian Congo, in the Tring Museum seems identical. A ^ from Blantyre in Mus. Brit, 
may represent a race, with smaller abdominal and hindmai’ginal spots (fringes lost). 
P. trifilifimbria Prout (3f). Pace dull red, narrowly white below. Structure about as in congrua\ 
3rd joint of palpiis in $ rather short. Pringes tricoloured, proximally green, centrally white, distally reddish 
grey. Cameroons and probably Southern Nigeria. - - leucopis Prout differs in its pale-green face (fading to 
whitish), only narrowly red above, and in the widening of the white central band of the fringe. Nyasa, in coll. 
JOICEY. 
P. centralis Prout (3 f). Closely like the most brightly coloured specimens of trifilifwihria, perhaps a form 
of it, unless the palpus is slightly shorter still. Cell-dots and hindmarginal spot larger, the former narrowly 
ringed with whitish; fringes without the central white line. Uganda, the type from Mount Ruwenzori; also 
N. W. Kivu and a smaller form (race?) from Cameroons and S. Nigeria. 
P. pupillata Warr. (3 f) is larger, with the apex more acute, the hindmarginal spot of forewing smaller 
than in centralis. Palpus similar. Pace green. Kikuyu Escarpment. 
P. rhodocycla Prout (5 a). Palpus much longer, in the $ somewhat over twice as long as diameter 
of eye. Pace reddish, but in part mixed with green. Wings more rounded, cell-spots more red, the white 
hindmarginal spot of forewing very slight. Described from Ivory Coast, but proves to be widely distributed 
(Senegal, Gold Coast, Upper Congo, Kenya Colony). Possibly a form of the following, as the colour of the face 
seems rather variable in this group. 
P. oculata Prout combines the green face of piipillata witlj the long palpus of rl'odocycla. Wings rather 
less broad and less rounded than in the latter, the white hindmarginal spot of the forewing extremely small. 
Daro Porest, Toro, Uganda, only the type yet definitely known. A broad-winged $ from Kumasi seems to 
agree. A from N. Kavirondo has the cell-dots smaller, the white hindmarginal spot wanting. 
P. cellularia Guen. is unknown, to me, but probably very near oculata biit faded. 35 mm. Greyish 
water-green, white strigulae well visible, hindwing in part snffused with this white, leaving the veins green, 
and with a black cell-spot, surrounded by testaceous; a similar, but much feebler spot discernible on forewing. 
Pace white. Reunion. 
P. stictimargo Warr. Not quite so large as pupillata. Differs further in its duller colour (bluish grey 
green), small and not white-ringed cell-dots, enlarged hindmarginal spot and especially in the black dots at 
vein-ends, bordered by larger white dots on the fringe. Kikuyu Escarpment. 
P. stictoloma Prout. Smaller than stictimargo (31—33 mm), 3rd joint of G palpus slightly shorter still, 
face dull reddish, apparently less mixed with dark scales, wings rather less irrorated and striated with white, 
forewing with dark terminal dots smaller, hindwing rather narrower, rather sharply angled at 3rd radial. 
Hindtibia of G dilated, with very short terminal process. Uganda. 
P. gajdacsi sp.n. (3 f) ?, 35—40 mm. Pace green, discolouring to buff. Palpiis about 1(4, 3rd joint 
relatively short. Forewing at least as broad as in pupillata, with similar apex; rather bright green, with the 
white irroration and strigulation slight; cell-dot minute, black; the spot on hindmargin pale cream-buff, well 
developed; large dots of the same colour at the ends of the veins, finely edged with black-brown distally; 
fringe green. Hindwing ample, with termen wavy, bluntly angled at 3rd radial; cell-dot and termen as on 
forewing. Abyssinia: Adis Abeba, July 1926, the type, and June 1926, 2 smaller (Gajdacs), Mus. Tring. 
P. rubrimacula Warr. (3 e) differs from all the other species in the large, predominantly rose-coloured 
hindmarginal spot of the forewing. Unyoro (type) and reaching Kivu and Nairobi. 
P. differens Warr. Unlike any preceding African Prasinocyrna, more recalling some Papuan species. 
Palpus short. Hindtibia not dilated. Expanse 30 mm. Opaque bright green, without white strigulation; 
forewing with a large, hindwing wdth a small cell-dot; both wings with small white dots at vein-ends; fringes 
predominantly rosy-purplish, proximally darker-spotted opposite the veins and with slender green streaks 
between the veins. Hindwing with termen very slightly bent in the middle. Underside with rosy suffusion 
proximally, costally more blackened. Kikuyu Escarkment, only the type known. 
P. salutaria Sivinh. (= differens ^ Warr., ex err.) (3 f) resembles differens in the fringes, though these 
are paler, but is a more typical Prasinocyrna in its texture. Palpus in both sexes long and slender. Hindtibia 
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irlj'difhn- 
hria 
leucopifi. 
centi'aU.9. 
piipiltata. 
rhodocycla. 
oculata. 
cellularia. 
stictimargo 
stictoloma. 
gajdacsi. 
ruhrimacu- 
la 
differens. 
salutaria. 
