CHUTA.PHA. 497 



3357. Chutapha periculosa. 



Phlogophora periculosa, Gaeu. Noct. ii. p. 65 (1852); Smith, Oat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 171. 

 Trigono'phora v-bnonneum, Grote, Check List, Noct. p. 23 (1875). 



Head and thorax pale pinkish tinged with rnfous ; palpi bright 

 rufous at sides ; tegulse with fine red-brown lines at middle and 

 tips ; raetathorax with the crests fiery red ; coxse and femora 

 fringed with fiery red hair ; tibiae and tarsi reddish brown ; 

 abdomen rufous, whitish at base, the crests broAvnish tipped 

 with grey, the ventral surface fiery red. Fore wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous, the antemedial area with triangular patch 

 of red-brown suffusion before the antemedial line, the medial 

 area red-brown except towards costa, the terminal area suffused 

 with red-brown except at apex ; subbasal line indistinct, double, 

 slightly waved, from costa to vein 1, a black point beyond it in 

 cell ; antemedial line double, minutely waved, somewhat oblique ; 

 orbicular pale tinged with rufous, its centre defined by brown 

 above, oblique bar-shaped, confluent below with the reniform 



Fig. 100. — Chutapha periculosa, J. \. 



which is oblique bar-shaped, defined by brown at sides, its inner 

 part pale, its outer bright rufous; postmedial line double, brown, 

 the inner line fine, obliquely incurved from costa to vein 5, then 

 bent inwards to lower extremity of reniform and oblique sinuous 

 to above inner margin where it curves inwards and joins the ante- 

 medial line, the outer line indistinct, minutely waved, oblique below 

 vein 5 ; a red-brown patch on costa before the subterminal line, 

 which is red-brown, double, minutely waved, oblique, from vein 7 

 to inner margin ; the veins of terminal area with slight dark 

 streaks ; a fine red-brown terminal waved line and lunule below 

 apex ; cilia red-brown, blackish at tips. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with purplish pink except on costal area ; a slightly sinuous 

 dark postmedial line and indistinct diffused subterminal band ; a fine 

 brown terminal line ; cilia ochreous, with brownish spots from apex 

 to vein 2 ; the underside ochreous yellow, the costal area tinged 

 with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line 

 angled inwards below costa and in discal and submedian folds. 



Ab. 1. v-hrunnea. Pore wing with the patch on medial area deep 

 red-brown. 



Hab. Newfoundland ; Canada, Ecnfrew Co., 3 6 , Ontario, Orilla 



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