82 NOCTUID.®. 
dorsally suffused with greyish fuscous. Fore wing purplish erey 
more or less completely suffused with rufous and olive-brown, the 
antemedial area less suffused; an indistinct blackish subbasal line 
from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double, the lines widely 
separated, waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold; orbicular a 
white point; reniform with white annulus, narrow, the upper ex- 
tremity produced and acute, often with a black streak between it and 
orbicular; medial line arising at upper extremity of reniform, 
excurved to vein 4, then oblique and double; postmedial line 
indistinetly double, filled in with white at costa, bent outwards 
below costa, then minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 5, 
then oblique and with some white points on it, another line beyond 
it, excurved to vein 5, then oblique and produced to black and 
white streaks on the veins ; a quadrate red-brown patch, with some 
white points on costa, on costal area before the subterminal line, 
which is whitish defined on inner side by an oblique black striga 
at, middle, oblique to vein 7, then somewhat dentate, angled inwards 
at discal and submedian folds and outwards at vein 4; a series of 
black points just before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown, some 
whitish in the interspaces towards base; some black and whitish 
strize on veins 2 and 1 towards termen and traces of a whitish line 
from vein 8 to tornus; cilia red-brown, whitish at base; the 
underside whitish suffused with rufous and irrorated with black, a 
black discoidal spot, waved medial line, double erenulate postmedial 
and subterminal lines, and terminal series of black points. 
Hab. Cryton (Templeton, Lewis), 4 3, 6 9, type, and types 
repleta and impleta. Exp. 83-40 millim. 
Larva. Green; head paler; warts with a few fine short hairs ; 
spiracles brown ; subdorsal and lateral lines slender, pale yellow. 
6295. Phlegetonia delatrix. 
Penicillaria delatrix, @uen. Noct. ii. p. 304 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 
lil. p. 391, 
Penieillaria palliatrix, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 305 (1852). 
Targalla infida, Wik. xiti, 1008 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 63, 
pl. 151. ff. 6, 6a. 
Penicillaria ludatrix, W1k. xv. 1778 (1858). 
Butelia opposita, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 67 (1864). 
Lutelia subocellata, W\k. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 67 (1864). 
Eutelia plusioides, Wik. xxxiii. 822 (1865). 
Lurhipia pretexta, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl 111. f. 24 (1874). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown with a few blackish scales 
especially in the thoracic crests; palpi whitish in front; frons 
whitish ; pectus whitish; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore 
wing purplish grey suffused with brown, the basal half rather 
darker ; subbasal line represented by traces of a curved striga from 
costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, the lines widely separated, 
waved, orbicular represented by a white point; reniform with 
black-brown centre and white annulus, very narrow, constricted at 
