NEROMIA. By L. B. Pkout. 
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crests wanting or slight. Hindtibia of the cJ with a short hair-pencil; of the $ with proximal.spurs vestigial 
(only one leg not lost). Forewing with SC^ not or only very shortly stalked, opposite or proximal to 1st radial. 
7 SS and 2 in Mus. Tring. 
C. approximans Warr. (3 i). Hindtibia of not dilated. From suhrufibasis distinguishable by the more o.piiroxi- 
slender postmedian line, SC^ of forewing not or scarcely stalked, red or black abdominal crests developed; from hk'hs. 
dorsicristata by the colour and markings. — ab. malescripta IFarr. has the lines less white. — ab. unilinea Warr. tnaleacripUi.. 
has the antemedian line very ill-developed. — Described from Natal; closely similar forms are found from 'nu/uim. 
Abyssinia of the Cape and on the Comoro Islands. 
C. inomata Front (3 i), which I at one time merged with airproxirnans as an ab., differs materially in Inortmia. 
the cJ genitalia — coremata much reduced, juxta, costal fold of valve and aedoeagus differently shaped, etc. 
Otherwise extremely similar and with nearly identical structure, on an aver^age rather smaller, abdominal 
crests almost entirely green, wings slightly darker and rougher-scaled. Transvaal and Natal. 
C. articulicomis Front (3 i) approaches dialenca and suhrufibasis in the clearness and straightness of aiiiculk-or- 
the white postmedian line, but the ^ antenna has more strongly projecting joints. From the other species with 
2-spurred $ hindtibia, articulicornis differs not only in the ^ antenna but in the non-dilated hindtibia and 
the long stalking of SC^. The type-form hi[s the abdominal crests green. — ab. (?) ruficristata Front has the nifimsiutu. 
crests red. — Described from Barberton, articulicor7iis or forms with the same essential structure are found 
from Uganda and Kenya to Angola and Natal. 
30. Genus: IS’eromia Stgr. 
The type of this genus, iodisata Stgr., which has hitherto been sunk to imlvereisimrsa Hmpsn., belongs 
to the Palaearctic Region and the genus has been discussed in Vol. 4, p. 26. Now that it is known that some 
African Chlorissa have only 2 spurs on the 5 hindtibia, only the scaling and coloration remain to distinguish 
it from section B of Chlorissa, and it is probable that it may need to be suppressed. There are, however, 
apparent transitions from it to a somewhat extensive x4frican group with shorter palpi in both sexes (except 
in clavico7'nis-Q), the C antenna generally without fascicles of cilia, in one or two species very shortly pectinate, 
and this group is provisionally retained here although, when we know its bionomics, a reclassification may 
be necessary. The hindwing has the distal margin smooth, except in 'pj'opmquilima. 
N. pulvereisparsa Hmpsn. (5 b) is only known to me in a very few examples, its Palestine form iodisata puh-erei- 
Stgr. only in 2 CC- Wings a little less elongate than in them, more thickly powdered or suffused with grey. 
Antenna ciliated in both sexes. Aden and Port Sudan. 
N. manderensis Front (3 i). Similar in build to pulvereisparsa but greenish, the marIvings obsolete; only mandcrcn- 
with very close attention a straight (not sinuoixs) postmedian may be discerned. British Somaliland. 
N. chlorosticta Front. 21—22 mm. Face brown-red. Wings green with darker green cell-spots and cMorosHda. 
finely dentate pale, but not conspicuous postmedian line, which on the hindwing is almost more strongly 
curved than the distal margin itself. Terminal line and fringe likewise green. Tanganyika Territory (loc. typ.), 
Kenya and Rhodesia. Exceptional in that the costal vein of the hindwing anastomoses with the cell at a point 
near the base or sometimes as far as to ~/g of the subcostal. 
N. picticosta Front (5 b). Transitional towards Chlorissa, with similar white lines and the palpus not plcticonta. 
extremely short. Very pale green with dark-red face. Antenna of C ciliated. Fore-wing vdth costal margin 
above elegantly dotted with red, beneath broadly red proximally. Madagascar, the CC fairly common near 
Antananarivo, the 5 not yet known to me. 
N. phoenicosticta Frotit (5 = miltosticta Front) (3g). Broad-winged, bright green, with bright red phoeni-^ 
face and large cell-dots and indistinct white lines. Abdomen and fringe marked with red in the G, vdth white costicta. 
in the 5- Antenna short and stout, in the C with rudimentary stout pectinations. Rhodesia and Nyasaland. 
N. clavicomis Front (3 h). Forewing less rather more pointed, of a less bright green, the cell-dots much davicornlts. 
smaller. C antenna similar. 5 -with the palpus less short, though still slender. Dorsal ridge and fringe some¬ 
times tinged -with red, irrespective of sex. S. Rhodesia. 
N. activa sj). w. (3 h). Slightly paler. Antennal pectinations a little less rudimentary, the longest ones adiva. 
just exceeding diameter of shaft. Abdomen -without white longitudinal line. Forewing with distal margin 
shghtly more oblique; SC^ free (in clavicornis-CC anastomosing with C); both wings without cell-dot, the lines 
distinct, the postmedian of the forewing curved near costa, that of the hind-wing sinuous in posterior half, more 
distally placed than in clavicomis. Rhodesia: Umvuma, 20 December 1917, type in coll. A. J. T. Jakse. 
