RHODOrHORA. XUYREION. 



Oi 



*71. Rhodophora felicitata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 16.) 



Alarm felicitata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 86, pi. vi. f. 1 (1894). 



2 . Frons yellowish ; vertex of head piuk ; tegula) pink tipped 

 with olivaceous ; thorax olive-yellow ; abdomen with whitish hair 

 at base. Fore wing with the basal area rosy pink, extending on 

 costa and inner margin to the terminal line, on the disk merging 

 into olive-yellow, which becomes deeper towards termen ; lines and 

 stigmata absent. Hind wing blackish, the cilia white. Underside 

 of fore wing blackish, the costal area irrorated with pink ; cilia 

 yellow ; hind wing white, the costal area irrorated with pink. 



Hah. U.S.A., S. Utah. Exp. 25 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn 

 Inst. Arts & 8ci. 



Genus THYREION. 



Type. 



Thyreion, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 121 (1891) snowi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; paljDi porrect to just beyond the frons and 

 fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate 

 below it ; eyes large, rounded; antennas of male serrate and fasciculate; head 

 and thorax thickly clothed with hair; fore tibiaj short and broad, with long 

 curved claw at extremity on inner side and three claws on outer ; mid and 

 hind tibiae spined. Fore wing usually short and broad, the costa somewhat 

 excised beyond middle and the teriuen below apex ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; G 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; (», 7 from upper angle; 8 rather 

 strongly anastomosing with tlie cell, then connected with it by an oblique bar 

 in T. snowi. 



A. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines almost obsolete. 



a. Hind wing with the termen tinged with pink ' snotvi. 



h. Hind wing without pink on termen rosea. 



B. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines prominent ligea. 



72. Thyreion snowi. 



Md&phroii snowi, Grote, Proc. Ac. IS'at. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 422 ; id. 111. 

 Essay, p. 6.3, pi. iii. f. 37 ; Smith, Cat. }soct. X. Am. p. 268. 



2 . Head and thorax very pale yellow ; pectus, legs, and 



Fig. 25. — Thyreion snoivi, (^ . \. 



abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing very pale yellow ; the basal 

 area with pale rose-pink streaks on subcostal and median nervures 



