UHODCECIA. 51 



Genus RHODffiCIA, nov. 



Type, R. aurantiago. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frona 

 smooth; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated; thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales, the pre thorax with sharp ridge-like crest, the nieta- 

 thorax with spreading crest; tibia; moderately fringed with hair; the fore 

 tarsus with curved claw-like spines on outer side of the joints; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing witli veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4353. Rhodcecia aurantiago. 



Xanthia aurantiago, Guen. Noct. i. p. 394, pi. 7. f. 1 (1S52) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 219. 

 Pi/rrhia illiterata, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 211. 

 Orthosia differta, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 67. 

 Heliothis illinoisensis, French, Can. Ent. xi. p. 77 (1879). 



8 . Head and thorax crimson-red, the scales slightly tipped with 

 grey, the tegulae and pata°;ia with blackish tips ; abdomen fulvous 

 yellow. Fore wing purplish red, the medial area more orange- 

 red, the terminal area slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 blackish, Avaved, from costa to suhmedian fold ; antemedial lino 

 blackish, waved, nearly erect ; orbicular and reniform hardly 

 traceable, defined by a few dark scales ; postmedial line black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then crenulate and produced to black points 



Fig. 15. — Rhodcecia aurantiago, <$ . \. 



on the veins, incurved below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of very 

 faint blackish spots, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia 

 purplish crimson. Hiud wing ochreous almost entirely suffused 

 with purplish crimson; the underside ochreous with the costal and 

 terminal areas suffused with purplish crimson. 



2 . Fore wing more uniform fulvous red, the orbicular and reni- 

 form more distinct, the former round, the latter defined by black 

 points and constricted at middle, the postmedial line with fuscous 

 shade on outer edge, the subterminal series of spots more distinct, 

 a terminal series of black points. Hiud wing with traces of diffused 

 dark subterminal band; the underside with postmedial line, terminal 

 series of slight lunules, and dark line through the cilia. 



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