PTOMOPHYLE; CHLOPvERYTHPvA; TRAMINDA. By L. B. Pkout. 
dehmioraia. 
iih/rihasa- 
lis. 
cri/thrar'ni. 
hcr'ingi. 
aiibcaniea. 
rubriplaga. 
ruia. 
exienuafa. 
earned. 
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and brighter, ty]ncally with a dark shade between the rosy ground-colour and the yellow borelei, terminal dots 
obsolete. — ab. dehonorata Provt lacks the sidherminal dark shade. 
Ch. nigribasalis Warr. may probably prove a very remarkable aberration of leighata (6 b), as the type ^ 
was, like that, taken in the Durban district and, so far as I know, has not been mat check Forewing almost 
wholly dark purple as far as % costa and '*/g hindmargin, then yellow with some purple strigulation. Hindwing 
similaily dark jmrple to end of cell, then brighter pui'itle, distally becoming iiregularly yellow. 
Ch. erythraria Mab. {= rosacea Pogenst.) (6 b) is the island representative described by Mabille 
from Madagascar, by Pagenstechee from the Comoro Islands, and may easily be a pale dwarfed form of leighata 
(size of rosina). Tone a little more violet, hindwing more bicoloured, perhaps strengthening the suggestion 
that the variegated nigribasalis is also conspecific. 
Ch. hermgi Prout (5g). Forewing rather narrower than in ro.s-dia, distal margin more regularly curved. 
More mixed with yellow (especially in proximal area of forewing) and with dark irroration; cell-spots black, 
that of hindwing elongate; a yellow ])ostmedian narrow band or thick line, on the forewing sinous, on the 
hind wing bent jiarallel with termen; forewing also with interiupted yellow subterminal and indication of curved 
dark antemedian. Hindwing beneath much ])aler. S. (’ameroons; Lolodorf, type $ in Zook Mus. Berlin. 
7. Genus: Ptoiliopli^le Prout. 
Palpus rather short; 3rd joint rather small, especially in the (^. Antenna in the with long pectinations, 
apical Vg merely ciliated; in the 5 with very short ciliation. Hindtibia as in the two jjreceding genera. 
Forewing with apex acute, distal margin bent in the middle, areole single, 1st subcostal from its apex or oftener 
stalked beyond, cell somewhat shortened, with 1st median connate or stalked (in Ptochophijle separate). Hind¬ 
wing with apex pronounced, a blunt angle at 3rd radial. Genitalia of cJ in several respects similar to those 
of Traminda, which, however, have a complicated quadripartite uncus and a costal arm from the valve, while 
Ptoniophyle has a simple, short, blunt uncus. Only one species. 
Pt. subcamea Warr. (6 b). In shape and markings suggesting a brown Traminda, though with a 
straighter and scarcely oblicpie median line, to which succeeds, in well marked specimens, a rather distinct 
dark shade. Described from the Congo, commoner in the Cameroons, known also from French Guinea. 
8. Genus; diIorei\ytlira Warr. 
Nearly related to Traminda, of which at one time I inclined to make it a section. Shape and habitus 
different, notably in that the hindwing lacks the colour of the forewing and is without markings; genitalia 
different both in the shape of the uncus and the nature of the sacculus; hindwing with the 3rd radial and 1st 
median well se])arate. Only one species is known, unless carnea is correctly placed, which seems to me very 
doubtful. 
Ch. rubriplaga Warr. (6 b). Easily known by its eloirgate wings, oblique red streak with whitish 
distal edging, and reddened fringe. The underside shows even more clearly tharr the upper that the insect 
rests with the forewing nearly covering the hirrelwing; the latter wing is fhrshed with pale rose and has two 
darker rosy lirres (postmedian and srrbterrnirral) and this coloratiorr and marking is exactly corrtinrred on the 
forewing costally and apically, while the rest of the wing rerrraiirs wirite, ordy with a shadowy reflection of 
the lirre of the upperside. - ab. rufa ab. nov. nray be taken to desigirate the forrrr in which the green of the 
forewing is supplarrted by pinkish, arralogoirs to Traminda ocellata ab. rufa Warr.-, irr neither can the colorrr 
accurately be called “rrrfous”, but as this dimorphisrrr in colorrr is very characteristic of Traminda ami its orrtliers 
it shoirld ideally have received a rrniforrn nornenclatrrre frorrr the first. Narrretypical rubriplaga is distributed 
from Nyasaland and 8. Mozambique to the Gape. — extenuata Prout is a small arrd wxakly markeel race frorrr 
Kenya Coloiry, Tanganyika and Sorrraliland. 
Ch. ( ?) camea Warr. is unknown to me, but as it is described rrnder Warrens Fidoniinae it is probable 
(unless that w^as elue merely to oversight) that it is errtirely nrisplaced here. In arry case it carrnot be very near 
to rubriplaga. 36 rnrn. Forewing ochreous, with flesh-coloured speckling, cell-spot and lines rather more deeply 
colorrred; first line very irrdistinct, brrt with reel dots orr the veirrs, posturecliarr thick, slightly sinrrous (orrtw'ard 
near costa, inward at fold), eelged elistally by a ])aler lirre; fringe fksh-coloirr. Hirrdwirrg paler, with arr orrter 
lirre and sorrre terminal shaeling. Urrdersiele ])aler arrd irrore glossy, with cell-spots and outer lirre. Brrshrrrarr- 
larrd, 1 (J. 
9. Gojllis: Trninilicla (Saalm.) Warr. 
Palpus exterrdirrg well beyorrel frorrs, rather strorrg in corrrparisorr with typical Sterrhinae, the 3rd joirrt 
w'ell eleveloped, especially in the Arrterrrra irr with rrroderate or lorrg pectinatioirs, irr $ siirrple. Hirreltibia 
