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PTOCHOPHYLE. By L. B. Pbout. 
r}(hida. wing weakly or scarcely marked. Cape and Natal, locally common. — ab. rubida Warr. is the reddest form of 
the species. 
mcinsueta. P. mansucta Prout (6 a). Costal margin of forewing less rounded, apex less pointed, colour paler 
(light yellow-grey), postmedian line on forewing simple, on both wings almost parallel with distal margin. 
Bushmanland, Cape, only the type known. 
5. Genus: Ptocliopliyle Warr. 
In most of its superficial characters (antenna, leg-structure, venation of forewing) agreeing with 
Palaeaspilates, though the genitalia show a much closer relationship to the Palaearctic Galothysanis (= Timandra). 
In the hindwing the costal vein anastomoses at a point with the cell and then diverges sharply, and the 1st 
and 3rd radials show a tendency to become stalked with the adjacent veins, though this latter character is 
inconstant. The $ antenna is stouter than that of Palaeaspilates, at least proximally, and is generally well 
ciliated, in a few Indo-Australian species pectinated. The genus consists of small, generally gaily coloured 
species, usually with more or less bent or angled hindwing. Chiefly Indo-Australian, but well represented 
on Madagascar, very sparingly in Continental Africa. 
apiriruhra. Pt. apicirubra Prout (6 b). Very distinct from all the other species in the ample red, black-mixed 
apical patch of the forewing. Madagascar. 
orthogram- Pt. orthogramma Prout (5 f) is noteworthy on account of its remarkable superficial resemblance to 
some South American Semaeopus of the section Dickrotuatopodia ITarr. This and the following 4 species, together 
with zaplileges, gnaniptoloma and kenriclci, were all collected in the mountains of Central Madagascar in 1911 
by Mr. E. B. Pratt. 
rohdisig- Pt. volutisignata Prout (oh). Hindwing, as in the preceding species, scarcely bent; coloration more 
nata. normal for the genus. The highly sinuous ante- and postmedian lines are in strong contrast to the straight 
median. Described from a single $. 
potyniphes. Pt. polyniphcs Prout (oh). Smaller than volutisignata, distal margins more bent, lines less distinct, 
a number of white spots developed. 
perisioecha. Pt. peristoecha Prout (5h). Hindwing rounded. The coloration and markings more recall some South 
American Eois than either of the neighbouring species. 
nnthocroca. Pt. anthocroca Prout (oh) is also bright yellow, but the markings are brighter purple-red than in 
peristoecha, more copious and quite differently arranged. Termen of hindwing weakly bent in the middle. 
hilari.^!. Pt. hilaris ITarr. Perhaps nearest to anthocroca (5h), but rather broader-winged, the purple markings 
scarcely so bright (but the unique type is worn), costal region of forewing proximally more broadly and heavily 
suffused, median band broader, but more mixed with yellow, bounded by narrov yellow bands, hindwing rather 
broadly yellow outside the cell-spot, which is small. Waj-ri, S. Nigeria, 1 $. 
doUmani. Pt. dolliTiani Prout (5h) has about the shape of hilaris, but is considerably larger, the postmedian 
line much more distally placed, not widened into a band, on the forewing more sinuous; very characteristic is 
the variegated central band of the forewing, with its bright red and black-grey markings. Underside similarly 
marked, the hindwing a little paler, the forewing with the red less bright, but suffusing also a part of the 
proximal area. N. W. Rhodesia: Solwezi, April 1918 (H. C. Dolrman), type E Mus. Brit. 
ruhripeyims. Pt. rubriperwiis Warr. (= sanguinolenta Warr.) (6 b). Rather broad-wdnged, pink with fine yellow 
lines and more or less macular, more or less confluent yellow’ subterminal and terminal. Congo (t^qie), S. Nigeria 
and Angola. 
apseogram- Pt. apseogramma Prout. Near (6 b), perhaps a form. Not quite so broad-wdnged; forewing 
ma. with the lines somewhat more approximated, the antemedian less bent at its ends; hindwing wdth the 2nd 
line more sharply angled, cut at its angle by a broad longitudinal cream-yellow' line which runs in front of the 
median vein and the 3rd radial, starting proximally of the 1st line and continuing, though slenderly, as far as 
the macular subterminal. N. W. Rhodesia; Solwezi, 6 December 1917 (H. C. Dollman), type G Mus. Brit. 
mihminio.ui. PE submitliosa Prout. Hindwing more strongly angled than in the two preceding. Colour less bright 
(yellow^ mixed with pink). Forewing wdth an elongate dark cell-mark (as in the Indian miniosa Warr.), lines 
fine and w’eak, faintly dark-edged in median area, the antemedian acutely angled in cell, the postmedian as 
sinuous as in miniosa, but nearer to the cell-spot. Hindwing still more weakly marked, the cell-spot white, 
very small. N. W. Rhodesia: Mwengw^a, 30 December 1913 (H. C. Dollman), tyjre $ in Mus. Brit. 
