CHRYSOCRASPEDA. By L. B. Prout. 
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Pt. hyalotypa Prout (5 h). Head between the antennae whiter than in ruhripennis (6 b); forewing slightly hualolmxi. 
narrower, duller, more vinaceous-brown, lines less oblique, less uniformly develoi^ed Ihroughout; hindwing 
quite distinct in shape, coloured as forewing, but with a somewhat hyaline white spot, which interriqhs the 
second yellow line. Lake Kivu: Rugege Forest, Ruanda district, 7000 feet. A similar Ptochcpliyle from Ijowa 
Valley (T. A. Barnes) may also be mentioned, but is in such poor condition that nothing can be made of it. 
Pt. definita Prout (6 a) is also yellowish ochreous with reddish irroration, but the hindwing is strongly defiidio. 
gibbous, with the projection at the 3rd radial and the 1st median, and the chocolate-coloured markings are 
arranged as in yet another South American group of the Sterrhinae, as exemplified in Ptyclmmalia nigromarginata 
Dogn. Tananarivo district. 
Pt. rubida Siuinli. is rather broad-winged, more orange red than zaphleges, the areole shorter, with rubidu. 
the 1st subcostal stalked beyond it. Madagascar, 1 described as Stegania (!). — zaphleges Prout (5h), in zaphleyc^. 
spite of its smaller size, narrower wings, redder colour and slightly different venation (1st subcostal from 
apex of areole), will perhaps prove to be a form (or mountain form) of ruhida.-Mountains of Central Madagascar. 
Pt. doricaria Sivinh. is marked on the abdominal margin as in peristoecha (5 h), but the yellow ground- doricaria. 
colour is very heavily clouded on the forewing with vinaceous, leaving free the broad, sinuous ante- and post¬ 
median lines, some spots in central area and an interrupted submarginal band. Hindwing less clouded proximally; 
small black cell-dots. Abdomen dorsally with a large purple-grey patch. Madagascar, only $$ known. 
Pt. gnamptoloma Prout (5g) is characterized, apart from the elongate white cell-marks, etc., by the (jnampto- 
gibbous forewing and strongly angled hindwing. Central Madagascar. 
Pt. kenricki Prout (5 g). A lovely little species, with the hind-, but not the forewing shaped as in kenricld. 
gnamptoloma. Recognizable at a glance by the pure white postmedian half-band and sxibterminal spots of 
the forewing. Central Madagascar. 
Pt. zearia Swinh. Dull dark purplish, with narrow yellow borders, which become rosy on meeting zearia. 
the ground-colour; forewing in addition yellow at middle of costa and with a paler yellow strijxe from tornus 
oblique towards costa, sejxarated from a large apical patch of the ground-colour by a rosy area. Hindwing 
with termen bent; a black cell-dot. Madagascar. 
Pt. planaria Sivinh. Rather larger than zearia (31 mm), hindwing rounded. Groundcolour similar, planaria. 
markings wanting, excepting small white, indistinctly dark-edged cell-dots; fringes yellow. Madagascar. 
Pt. zombensis Prout (5g). Rosy, almost entirely washed over with pale purple-drab and with bright zomhensis. 
gold-yellow borders and fringes; in shape and coloration extremely like a $ of the Indian togata Fh.\ cell-spot 
of hind wing pale primrose yellow, not w'hite; forewing above with a small red cell-dot; faint red ante- and 
postmeclian lines, the latter more strongly oxitbent in the middle than on the forewing of hyalotypa (5 h). Nyasa- 
land: Zomba, April-May 1925 (H. Barlow), 1 $ in coll. Joicey. 
Pt. eclipsis Prout is distinct in shape, the distal margin of both wings being markedly sinuous, the edipsis. 
concavities of the forewing coming between the 5th subcostal and 3rd radial and between the 1st median and 
2nd submedian, the anterior one of the hindwing deeper, but only commencing at the 1st radial. The only 
known example, a $ from Madagascar, is further chai’acterized by the heavy cloudings of dark grey which over¬ 
spread most of the hindwing and a great part of the forewing, leaving 6 costal spots and 2 macidar lines close 
to tei’men yellow, some ill-defined anterior postmedian markings rose-colour. 
6. Genus; Clir.ysocraspecla Hmpsn. 
Closely related to Ptochophyle, scarcely differing except in the absence of the areole, all the 5 subcostals 
being more or less long-stalked. Area of distribution similar; from the African Region, however, very few species 
are yet known, all closely related. 
Ch. rosina Warr. (6 b). Only known in a few examples, from Warri, S. Nigeria, but evidently variable, rosina. 
A small species, with oval white cell-spot on hindwing, the naiTow yellow borders interrupted in the middle, 
the fringes here dark-mixed. — heterora Prout differs from all other known examples in having yellow sub- heterora. 
terminal spots, especially between the 3rd radial and 1st median, the yellow borders of the forewing widening 
more triangularly in its ixosterior part, the hindwing perhaps more acutely angled at the 3rd radial. Soundedon, 
near Macenta, French Guinea, 1600 feet, 1 (J. Possibly a distinct species. 
Ch. leighata is likewise variable, and may even prove to consist of further races of rosina. Distal 
margin of forewing less bent, cell-mark of hindwing small, dark. Two principal forms are known to me. — 
holobapta Prout (— medjaria Moll.), from the Congo and Uganda, has both wings as far as the yellow border twlobapta. 
uniformly dull Indian purple, purple terminal dots well developed. — leighata ITarr. (6 b) from Natal, is lighter leighata. 
