PHLEGETONTA. ial 
Srecr, I. Antenne of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 
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A. (Colpocheilopteryx). Fore wing with the termen distinctly 
angled at vein 3, then excised and sinuous. 
a. Fore wing with the basal area suffused with purplish 
pink, the triangular patch on costa before apex purplish 
PMB Pelee. cee = Wale oacbaniae calomelaldeite healeinlrawaneneeunnteicohsoay'ane operatria. 
b. Fore wing with the basal area and the triangular patch 
on costa before apex rufous. 
a’, Fore wing without white spot before subterminal line 
Tim Clisenll tONGlscoososacuccosonedbpacaddasoadooocbeoauueDaDuaKbode callichroma. 
b'. Fore wing with white spot before subterminal line in 
Glierepnl ls (olka aarincdas Acnusn indneccocdocenceeanoulnbencootienoreibd violescens, 
6280. Phlegetonia operatrix. 
Eutelia operatrix, Wilgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 170 (1860). 
Eurhipia rosea, Mab. & Vuillot, Nov. Lep. p. 6, pl. 1. f. 4 (1880). 
Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous; tibia with deep 
rufous band at extremities, the spurs white ringed with black ; 
abdomen yellow suffused with red-brown except at base and 
extremity. Fore wing yellow tinged with rufous; the base of 
costal area suffused with crimson ; antemedial line treble, crimson 
and with crimson suffusion between the lines, highly curved ; the 
veins of terminal area slightly streaked with rufous; medial line 
rufous, oblique from costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique and sinuous 
below vein 4; postmedial line treble, rufous, the two outer lines 
crimson towards costa, sinuous, oblique to vein 6, inwardly oblique 
Fig. 27.—Dhlegetonia operatrix, g. +. 
below vein 4, a triangular purple patch beyond it on costal area 
with two white points on costa; subterminal line rufons, incurved 
below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and below vein 4, 
then oblique, sinuous, and closely approximated to postmedial line, 
the area beyond it pale yellow with some rufous suffusion at middle, 
some pale yellow before it from below vein 7 to above 4 emitting a 
striga defining the apex of the triangular purple patch; a rufous 
terminal line; cilia rufous, the tips deep rufous between veins 6 
and 3. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with 
rufous from apex to vein 3; traces of a postmedial line; a fine 
rufous terminal line; cilia rufous on apical half, then yellowish, 
Hab. Coneo; N.E. Raoprsta, E. Loangwa Distr. (Weave), 1 3; 
Care Corony, Caffraria, type f @ in Mus. Stockholm. wp, 34 
millim. 
