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fore wing with more fuscous ou terminal half, its inner edge not 

 indented in cell, the white discoidal lunulo separate from costal 

 patch, the basal inner area tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Prey- 

 Coll. ; Spain, Catalonia ; Italy ; Dalmatia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithyuia ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 

 Tarbagatai Mts., Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exy. 

 30 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 252 ; Ilffra. Eaup. p. 125, pi. 33. f. 5. 



Yellowish white with dorsal and subdorsal yellow lines and dark 

 brown spots. Food-plants : Liaaria, Antirrhinum inajus, Del- 

 pJdnium. 7. 



Genus RHODOCHLJENA, nov. 



Type, B. hotonga. 



Pi-oboscis weak; palpi obliquely upturned, frinoed with long hair in front, 

 the 3rd joint porrect ; fron.s smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennce oF female 

 sen-ate; head and thorax clothed with rough liair and scales, the pro- and 

 nietathorax with spreading crests; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather 

 short and broad, the apex rectangular, the termen slightly cri'^nulate ; veins 3 

 and .5 from near angle of cell; (J 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 ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2236. EhodocMsena botonga. 



Biantha'cia botonga, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 1'8 (1874). 

 Helio'phobuA jnrruhra, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 279 (1902). 



$ . Head and thorax chestnut-red mixed with pale pink ; 

 antennae whitish ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale ochreous 

 mixed with chestnut. Fore wing bright chestnut-red ; subbasal 

 line represented by black marks below costa and cell, with a point 

 beyond it in cell, a short streak in submedian fold, and spot above 



Fig. 36. — Rhoclochlmna hotonga, § . \. 



inner margin ; a purplish-pink band before the autemedial line, 

 which is black, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly 

 sinuous ; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform narrow, chestnut 

 with white annuli defined by black, the former extending to below 

 the cell and connected with the latter by a fascia on median 

 nervure ; postmedial line black with a purplish-pink band on its 



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