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PRASINOCYMA. By L. B. Prout. 
of (J with hair pencil. Porewing with a very small white spot on hindmargin before middle, often also traces 
of the other 2 white spots of hadrata (2 h), cell-dots of the two wings equal in size. Sierra Leone to Kikuyu 
Escarpment, the last-named being the type locality. 
irujlena. p. triglcna sp. n. (3 g) $, 30 mm. Similar to salutaria, jialpus perhaps still longer, almost 3 times as 
long as diameter of eye. Less yellowish and more opaque green, with similar or rather smaller black cell-dots; 
an oblique row of 3 small white, distally dark-scaled spots proximally on forewing, the first in middle of cell, 
the second, slightly more distal, midway between the median and submedian veins, the third and most distal 
at hindmargin, corresponding to those of salutaria, the hindmost less distally placed than in/mdrfha; terminal 
white dots present, but no rosy markings on fringe; hindwing slightly less angled than in salutaria. Forewing 
beneath with faint fleshy-grey suffusion, except at margin. Antennal shaft white to Ijeyond middle. L^sambara, 
ca. 1600 m. (Weiss jun.), type in Zool. Mus. Berlin. 
hadrata. P. hadrata Feld. (2 h) is bluer green than triglena, forewing less broad, hindwing tailed, cell-dots 
obsolete, fringe spotted with dark red-brown opposite the veins, etc. Palpus moderately long. Knysna, only 
the type (J known. 
albisticfa. P. albisticta Warr. (3g). Palpus in the about as in hadrata, in the $ strongly elongate. Colour and 
shape intermediate towards triglena. Abdomen with a dorsal stripe of reddish and blackish, containing white 
spots. Cell-dots minute or obsolete. Hindmarginal spot almost central, very small, but with some dark scales 
distally. The white terminal spots bounded proximally by a very fine, sinuous dark line. Fringe pale, yellowish 
and whitish, dark spotted. Nandi Country (type) and distributed from Ivory Coast to S. Rhodesia. 
hifimhriata. P. bifimbriata Prout is perhaps related to albisticta. On an average smaller, palpus less long, abdomen 
not ornamented, hindtibia without hairpencil. Slightly more yellowish green, unmarked except for minute 
black cell-dots. Fringes characteristic, unspotted, proximally buff-yellow, distally grey. Described from the 
Transvaal, Imt subsequently seen from isolated localities from Abyssinia to Natal. 
niveisticta. P. niveisticta Front (3 g). Termen and fringe as in salutaria, also the $ palpus; that of the ^ much 
less long. Ground-colour more nearly as in Iriglena, but a little more bluish. Distinctive is the white, dark- 
adornata. edged spot at anal angle of both wings, enclosing some rosy scaling. Natal. — adornata Prout, from Ashanti 
(loc. typ.) and Ivory Coast, has the spots at anal angle enlarged and develops a still larger one, similarly 
coloured, at apex of hindwdng, reaching the 1st radial. 
ieirucosmia. P. tetracosmia sp. n. d', 29 mm. Evidently near adornata, the hindwing rather broader and less angled. 
Face green. Length of palpus diameter of eye, 3rd joint well over y.y of 2nd joint. Pectinations 4 times as 
long as diameter of shaft, continuing about to joint 30. Abdomen above green at base, then fleshy, mixed 
with white and blackish. Hindtibia not dilated. Wings thinly scaled, dark yellowish green; costal edge of 
fore wing buff, dark-spotted; hindwing with whitish cell-dot; apical and tornal blotches developed on both 
wings, on forewing rather more extended longitudinally than transversely, respectively touching 1st radial 
and just crossing 2nd median, the apical of the hindwing almost reaching 3rd radial; terminal spots whitish 
buff; fringes variegated. Kivu: Rugege Forest, Ruanda district, 7000 feet, December 1921 (T. A. Barns), 
the unique type in the Joicey collection. 
meyacydes. P. megacydes sp. n. (J, 40 mm. Face white, mixed with green. Palpus ll^ diameter of eye, terminal 
joint rather short; dull red, beneath white. Antenna pectinate to about the 32nd joint. Abdomen with some 
white dorsal spots. Hindtibia with hair-pencil; terminal process very short. Wings deep didl yellow-green, 
rather thinly scaled; markings irregular, white, delicately tinged with pink; a broad band close to base, on 
fore wing not crossing subcostal; a reniform cell-spot, on hindwing joined to a white costal area and followed 
by some white maculation between the radials; a large patch from end of hindmargin, tapering to a point 
anteriorly, this point placed behind 1st median on hindwing, at 3rd radial on fore wing, on the latter touching 
a subterminal spot between the radials; small terminal spots, enclosing blackish dots at the veins. Hindwing 
with termen crenulate. Kivu: Virunga Mountains, 9000 feet, October 1921 (T. A. Barns). Type in coll. 
Joicey. A beautiful species, recalling an Anisozyga. 
'pcrjmtve- P. perpulverata Prout (3h). Wings relatively a little narrower than in typical Prasinocyma, hindwing 
rata, distal margin rounded. Palpus in both sexes with terminal joint short. The difference in colour, which 
gives to this species such an abnormal aspect, is merely due to its desert environment (see p. 1). Hindtibia not 
subfasciata. dilated. Somaliland (loc. typ.) and Abyssinia. — ab. subfasciata Prout has on the forewing indications of a 
dark basal patch, dark central band and terminal dashes between the veins. Somaliland, with the tyjie. — 
‘perscripta. ab. (? sp. div.) perscripta Prout is small (16 mm) and with still more markings, the median area broadly dark- 
mixed in anterior half, a dark costal subterminal patch (as in loveridgei), the hindwing somewhat shortened. 
Founded on 1 A from Mandera, Somaliland. I now suspect it will prove a form of the following. 
loveridgei. P. loveridgei Prout. Similar to perpulverata. Hindtibia of A irith pencil and terminal process. IVings 
slightly less narrow, more variegated. Forewing with a tinge of green costally, an irregular dark central shade 
