KHODODIPSA.. 



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Genus KHODODIPSA. „ 



Type. 



Ehododvpsa, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 797 (1877) mlnpia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned to well in front of frons, 

 the 2nd joint fringed with hair iu front; frous with rounded prominence with 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax roughly 

 clothed with hair mixed with a few scales ; antenna; of male ciliated ; fore 

 tibia3 short and broad, with long curved claw and two spines on inner side, and 

 four claws diminishing towards base on outer ; mid and hind tibia; strongly 

 spined. Fore wing with the apes somewhat produced and acute ; veins o and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 1) from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; ;'> obsolescent from middle of discocellulars : G, 7 shortly stalked. 



A. Hind wing crimson. 



a. Fore wing with the medial area wliite ininiana. 



b. Fore wing with the medial area crimson volupia. 



B. Hind wing fuscous. 



a. Fore wing with the markings brownish ochreous masoni. 



h. Fore wing with the ruarkino-s white adcn. 



^75. Rhododipsa miniana. 



(Plate LY. fig. 29.) 



id. Pap. ii. p. 64, pi. 1. 



BhodoiIipM miniana, Grote, Pap. i. p. 17o (1881) 

 ff. 1, 2; Smith, Cat. Xoct. jN\ Am. p. 273. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow ; the medial area white, with slightly curved medial 

 yellow line, expanding into a diffused patch on outer side towards 

 costa ; a blood-red subtermiual line dentate towards costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, then excurvcd and somewhat dentate. 

 Hind wing bright blood- red, the basal and inner areas orange- 

 yellow ; cilia j-ellow at base, white at tips. Underside of fore wing 

 bright blood-red, except marginal areas which are yellow ; hind 

 wing yellow, with diffused blood-red in lower part of cell, below the 

 cell, and thence to termen. 



Hah. U.S.A., Xew Mexico, Las Conces, in Coll. J. B. Smith. 

 Eivp. 24 millim. 



70. Ehododipsa volupia. 



Alaria volupia, Fitch, 12th Eep. Trans. N. Y. State Agr. Soc. 1857, 

 pp. 900-908 (1858) ; Grote, 111. Essay, p. 62, pi. iii. f. 33 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 273. 



Fig. 2l3, — IthoiIodipM volupia, S ■ \- 



Head and thorax orauge-ycllow ; mid and liind tibia) and tarsi tinged 

 with pink ; abdomen orange-yellow, the ventral surface pink. Fore 



