PHLEGETONIA. 71 



Sect. I. Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 

 A. {Colpocheilo-pteryx). Fore wing with the termen distinctly 

 angled at vein 3, then excised and sinuous. 



a. Fore wing with tlie basal area suffused with purplish 



pink, the triangular patch on oosta before apex purplish 



pink operatrix. 



b. Fore wing with the basal area and the triangular patch 



on costa before apex rufous. 

 «^. Fore wing without white spot before subterminal line 



in discal fold caUichroma. 



i\ Fore wing with white spot before subterminal line in 



discal fold violescens. 



6280. Phlegetonia operatrix. 



Evtelia operatrix. Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 170 (1800). 

 Eurhipia rosea, Mab. & Vuillot, Nov. Lep. p. 6, pi. 1. f. 4 (18C0). 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous ; tibiae 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 ; postraedial line treble, rufous, the two outer lines 

 crimson towards costa, sinuous, oblique to vein 6, inwardly oblique 



F\g. '21. — Phlegetonia ojKratrix, (^ . 1. 



below vein 4, a triangular purple patch beyond it on costal area 

 ■with two white points on costa ; subterminal line rufous, incurved 

 below costa, slightly augled 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 rufoiis 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 suffased with 

 rufous from apex to vein 3 ; traces of a postmedial line ; a fine 

 rufous terminal line ; cilia rufous on apical half, then yellowish. 



Hah. Congo; N.E. Rhodesia, E. Loangwa Distr. {Neave)., ] j" • 

 Cape Colony, Caffraria, type t $ in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



