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NOCTUID^. 



tarsi tiuged with piuk. Fore wing very pale yellow ; the basal 

 area deep rose-pink down to submedian fold, emitting streaks on 

 subcostal and median ncrvures, ;ind with some pink below its 

 extremity ; an oblique very deep pink postmedial band arising from 



Fig. 24. — lihoddphiira i/aurce^ (^ . \. 



costa near apex, angled inwards in discal fold, almost obsolete 

 below snbmedian ibid, and bent outwards to inner margin ; the 

 terminal area suffused with j^ink ; cilia piuk. Hind Aving white ; 

 the terminal area more or less suffused with pink down to vein 2. 

 Underside of fore wing with the costal and terminal areas pink. 



Hah. U.S.A., 8. States, Georgia, 3 J , 3 $ {Doxihleday), Colorado. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



Larva (redescribed). — Head 3-5 millim., brown, with irregular 

 darker blotches over the lobes. Body pale orange, a sharp 

 transverse black stripe in the centre of each segment to the 

 subventral fold, and more obscure bands in the incisures. A 

 rounded subdorsal spot on anterior edge of somite 1 ; feet black 

 marked. 



Food-plant, Gauva. — H. G. D. 



70. Rhodophora florida. (Plate LV. fig. 26.) 



I?Jwciophora JlorkJa, Giieii. Koct. ii. p. 171, pi. 9. f. 7 (1852); Smitli Cat 

 IS^oct. N. Am. p. 272. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; palpi pink ; head 

 and tegular tinged with pink; the pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen pink. Fore wing rose-pink, with some ochreous yellow 

 at base of inner margin ; traces of a Y-shaped medial yellowish 

 band often present defining the reniform stigma and not reaching 

 costa; the terminal area ochreous yellow, with oblique, rather 

 irregular inner edge. Hind wing yellowish white. Underside 

 with the costal area of both wings more or less suffused with 

 pink. 



Hah. Caxada, Orilla (BksJi), 2 2 ; U.S.A. 

 2 $ , N. York {Douhleday), 1 ^ type, Utah. 



Larva. Saunders, Can. Ent. ii. 6 (1869). 



Head pale green ; body green, with dorsal darker vascular line : 

 lateral line faint, dark ; a reddish lateral patch on joint 2. Skin 

 translucent, furnished dorsally with fine pile. 



Food-plant, flowers of (Enoihera.—R. G. D. 



Eastern States, 4 c? , 

 Ex2^. 34 millim. 



