EUTELIA, 25 
6222. Eutelia ablatrix 
Penicillaria ablatrix, Guen, Noct. ii. p. 303 (1852). 
Penicillaria rufatrix, Wik. xv. 1775 (1898). 
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brick-red ; tegulie slightly 
edged with white, the patagia with white bars ; pectus white, the 
spurs and tarsi banded white and blackish; abdomen with white 
dorsal spot on 4th segment, followed by two minute black crests, 
then a white point, the ventral surface whitish towards base. Fore 
wing pale brick-red, the costal area irrorated with black to end of 
cell; an oblique pale subbasal striga from costa and a black point 
on vein 1; antemedial line white irrorated with black, oblique 
from costa to discoidal fold in end of cell where it is acutely angled, 
then inwardly oblique; a fine oblique white line before it from 
cell to inner margin ; reniform white with red spots slightly edged 
with black in its upper and lower parts and a short white streak 
before it in discal fold, an oblique white striga above it from costa ; 
the inner area from just beyond antemedial line to near termen and 
Fig. 13.—Eutelia ablatrix, S. }. 
extending to vein 2 and beyond the cell to vein 3, semibyaline 
white traversed by four slight waved lines; medial line excurved 
from vein 7 well beyond the cell to vein +, then double and incurved 
on the whitish patch ; postmedial line white defined on outer side by 
brownish and oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is angled 
outwards, then very indistinct, with white point beyond it above 
vein 5 and incurved below vein 3, some white points beyond it on 
costa; subterminal line white and incurved from costa to just below 
vein 6 near termen, then almost obsolete to vein 3 and straight to 
tornus ; the apex grey with small terminal dark lunules defined by 
white and dark patch at vein 6; cilia white at base except at 
middle. Hind wing hyaline white, the terminal area brick-red ; 
traces of some postmedial black points on the veins and two black 
strize at inner margin near tornus; cilia with a fine white line at 
base ; the underside with the costal area ochreous white slightly 
irrorated with black and blackish spots just beyond middle. 
©. Much deeper crimson-red ; fore wing with the patch on inner 
area much less hyaline, yellowish on its basal part and whitish 
outwardly. 
Hab. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 1 3,1 2 ; Jamaica, 
1 9 type rufatrix; Harrr (Tweedie), 1 9; Sra. Lucra (Cowie), 2 dc, 
1 9 ; Grevapa (H. H. Smith), 1 9 Hap. 30 millim. 
