iEDOPHEON. EHODOPHOIU. OO 



with brown ; an oblique dark discoidal bar. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, the veins streaked with brown. Underside white, the veins 

 slightly streaked with brown. 



Hah. Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Trauscaspia, 1 S • Exp. 

 30 millim. 



68. .ffidophron phlebophora. 



Mdopliron phleho'pliora , Led. Wien. eiit. Mon. ii. p. 144, pi. 2. f. 9 (1858) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 



Head and thorax bright sulphur-yellow ; antennoe ochreous ; 

 abdomen whitish, the extremity and ventral surface yellow. Fore 

 wing sulphur-yellow, the veins more or less strongly tinged with 

 brown. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; the veins brown ; 

 the termen suffused with yellow. 



Hah. Armenia ; Asia Minor, 3 c? , 6 $ ; Syria, 2 S , Mardin ; 

 Persia. Ea-p. 32-34 millim. 



Larva. Stand. Hor. Ent. Soc. Eoss. xiv. p. 401 (1878). 



Head pale brown, the segments with darker margins ; bodj' 

 greenish, with red-brown markings, paler towards extremity, 

 forming bands on each somite, sharply defined below, toothed 

 and with a pale point at the stigmata ; a prominent dorsal line ; 

 sublateral area tinged with brown ; the warts each with a short 

 hair. Food-2)lant, Fhlomis. 



Genus RHODOPHORA. 



Type. 



Alaria, Westw. Jardine's Nat. Libr. xxxii. p. 200 (1841), non 



desci-., nee Schrank, Vermes, 1788 gaurcB. 



HJiodoiihora, Guen. Xoct. ii. p. 170 (18o2) gaurcB. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi pori-ect, reaching just beyond tlie frons and 

 fringed with hair below ; frons witii slight rounded prominence and corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair ; fore tibiae rather short and broad, spined at side 

 and with long curved inner claw and short outer claw ; mid and hind tiba; 

 spined. Fore wing with the apex somewliat pi-oduced and acute ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from u|)per 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. Hind wing pale. 



a. Fore wing with the terniinal area pink gaura. 



h. Fore wiug witli the terminal area yellow floridu. 



B. Hind wing blackish felicitata. 



69. Rhodophora ganrse. 



Thalwva guurce, Smith & Abb. Insects Georgia, ii. p. 19", pi. 99 (1797) ; 



Westw. Jardine's Nat. Libr. xxxii. p. 200, pi. 24. f. 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 272. 

 Porphgrinia inaiutina, Hiibn. Ziitr. p. 35, ff. 557, 558 (1827). 



Head and thorax very pale yellow ; patagia and metathorax 

 orange posteriorly ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the tibitc and 



