CHALCOPHAEDRA; RHODOPSONA; RETINA; PHLEBOHECTA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
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brown, without gloss, basal area with white vein-streaks; close behind the middle an oblique white band, 
which is pointed posteriorly, a short, interrupted subapical band and the hindwing likewise white; marginal 
band of the hindwing black-brown, posteriorly blue, uniformly curved and reaching to the anal angle. 
Under surface suffused with blue in the basal area of the forewing and posteriorly on the hindwing; the 
two bands of the forewing broader than above, the subapical band not interrupted; marginal band of the 
hindwing for the most part separated from the margin. — South Flores, found during the dry season in 
October and November; in the Tring Museum. 
C. zehma H.-Schaff. (? = viridisuffusa Swinh.) (7 d). Not agreeing well with Chalcosia; the cf only zehma. 
known to me from the figure. Vertex and occiput red, abdomen blue. Forewing above grey-black, with 
straight white or yellowish band. Hindwing blue at the base, according to Snellen only in the ? with 
broad white band. — Borneo, Sumatra, Java. The citation of “Silhet” as locality is doubless incorrect. 
The figure described on pi. 7 as zehma cf is a copy of H.-Sch.’s figure; it is a ? with white abdomen. Should 
such a form really exist in India (“Silhet”), the name viridisuffusa must be used for the island form. 
39. Genus: Clialcopliaedra gen. nov. 
Similar to Chalcosia; frons more strongly projecting, nai’rowed above; 8. abdominal segment of 
the cf above long, turned downwards, 7. ventral segment of the ? very narrow, the 7. dorsal segment 
reaching to the ventral side and the ventral edges projecting as two parallel longitudinal ridges, between 
which the vaginal orifice lies. Forewing truncate, the 3. subcostal proximal to the 5. (in Chalcosia the 3. sub¬ 
costal distal to the 5.); anal angle of the hindwing in the ? distinctly projecting, the distal margin emarginate 
before the anal lobe. — One North Indian species. 
C. zuleika Douhl. {= corusca and corrusca H.-Schaff.) (7 d). Head, thorax and base of the abdomen zuleika. 
glossy green. Forewing with two yellowish white bands, separated by a black band, which has a golden 
green band centrally, base golden green, distal margin broadly black, veins green. Hindwing white, apex 
with short marginal band; beneath entirely white. Subbasal band of the forewing beneath pale yellow. — 
Common in North India: Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam; also in Burma; at medium elevations. 
40. Genus: Rhodopsona Jord, 
Similar in form to Pidorus. Frons broad, projecting. Antenna in cf and ? with long pectinations, 
bushy to the tip; 8. abdominal segment of the cf elongated, beneath closed except a slit, inside at the ventral 
edge with woolly hairs. The 1. subcostal of the forewing much more proximal than the 2. median, the 
1. radial from the cell, the 2. and 3. radials rarely quite short stalked; the 2. subcostal and the 1. radial 
of the hindwing branching off close together, commonly short-stalked, the upper angle of the cell mostly 
considerably projecting. 
R. bocki Sivinh. (7e). Black; thorax and a broad costal stripe on the forewing, distally curving to bocki. 
the hinder angle, red; underside of the body and some vein-streaks slightly metallic blue. — Burma. In 
China are found costata Walk, and ruhiginosa Ijeech. See vol. II, p. 10, pi. 2 c. 
41. Genus: Retina Walk. 
Frons less projecting than in Eterusia and broader, above at least as broad as long; pectinations of 
the antenna in cf and ? distally decreasing in length, in the middle also long in the $. First segment of 
the middle and hindleg longer than the other joints together. Forewing narrow; hindwing triangular, hind- 
margin short, distal margin straight, in the ? slightly emarginate; neuration as in Eterusia, the 2. and 3. radials 
of the hindwing stalked or from a point. 
R. rubrivitta Walk. (7 e). Body black-green, beneath grey ; collar red ; forewing black-green, a broad rubrivitta. 
streak from the base to the distal margin red. — Sikkim; Assam. 
R. vitripennis Joann. (7 e). Similar to the preceding species, both wings narrower, with transparent vitripennis. 
central longitudinal area, hinder angle of the forewing completely rounded off. — Tonkin; Cambodja. 
42. Genus: Phleboliecta Hamps. 
Form as in Retina. Antenna with short pectinations in the cf, the pectinations distally long, as in Eterusia. 
The 3. subcostal of the forewing wanting; the 2. and 3. radials of the hindwing separated. — Indo-Malayan. 
P. fuscescens Moore (7 e). Greenish black-brown; collar broadly pale red; wings anteriorly and distally fuscescens. 
very narrowly edged with grey, hindwing in the cf beneath white except a broad streak behind the costa; 
in the ? above and beneath white from the hindmargin to the cell. — Sikkim; Bhutan; Assam. 
P. lithosina. Both wings at the costal margin and the hindwing distally bordered with yellow; hindwing 
without white area. Sikkim; Burma; Borneo. — flavicosta Elw., from Sikkim. Distal margin of the hindwing flavicosta. 
rather broadly yellow. — lithosina Fldr. (= lithosia Oberth.) (7 f, named flavicosta on the plate) is from lithosina 
Burma and Borneo (teste Felder). Distal margin of the hindwing quite narrowly whitish yellow. 
