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Genus ^DOPHRON. ^^^^^ 



Mdophron, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 180 (1857) rlwdites. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyoud frons, fringed with 

 long hair below ; frons with rounded prominence witli corneous plate below it 

 produced at sides into lateral walls ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna^ of male 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with long hair ; fore tibiffi witli long cui'ved 

 claw on outer side and another at end of 1st joint ol' tarsus ; mid and hnid 

 tibite slightly spined ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing with the 

 apex moderately produced ; vein o from close to angle of cell ; 5 from well 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing prominently streaked with pink rliodltcs. 



B. Fore wing with slight dusky streaks. 



a. Fore wing with dark discoidal bar vcnosa. 



h. Fore wing without dark discoidal bar i^Uebopliora. 



66. iEdopliroii rhodites. 



Heiiothis rhocUtcs, Ev. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1851, p. 635 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 223. 

 Simyra aurorina, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. Suppl. f. 579 (1851). 



(S . Head and thorax dull piuk ; pectus and legs whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing puri)lish 

 pink the medial part of costal area greyish : the cell, a streak 

 below basal half of vein 1, another below vein 2, and others above 



ml 



Fig. 23. — JEch>2)hro7i rhodites, J . \. 



and below vein 5 pale yellow ; some yellowish spots on termen ; 

 cell yellow intersected with pink. Hind wing white, sufliused with 

 fuscous except in cell and on costa ; cilia white intersected 

 with brown. Underside white, the veins brownish, the terminal 

 area tinged with pink. 



Hah. Russia, Central and Eastern, Astrabad, 1 J; Aemenia ; 

 Asia Minoe, Pontus, Taurus ; Peesia. Eaj>. 32 miJlim. 



67. JEdophron venosa. 



Mdu2)hron venosa, Christ, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 165 ; id. Rom. Mem. v. 

 p. 38, pi. 2. f. 9 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow ; abdomen yellowish 

 white. Fore wing pale ochreous yellow, the veins finely streaked 



