. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 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 subtermin
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 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. âPhlegetonia ojKratrix, (^. 1. below vein 4, a triangular purple patch beyond it on costal area â 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
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