RHIZOTYPE. o75 



2552. Rliizotype jodea. 



Phlngophorajodca,(jfi\en. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1838, p. 220 (uon clescr.; ; 

 Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 277, Noct. f. 457 (1845) ; Staucl. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 184. 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; sides of 

 palpi and frons brown ; tegula? with black medial line ; patagia 

 usualh- suflfused with fuscous ; dorsal crest often whitish at tips ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous or 

 dark brown except at base. Fore wing greyish suffused with pale 

 purple ; subbasal line represented by slight iDlaek stria? from costa 

 and cell defined by whitish on outer side ; a slight black streak in 

 base of submedian fold ; a blackish fascia above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line ; a whitish fascia irrorated with brown 

 or tinged with purplish on inner margin, not reaching base ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double filled in with whitish, rather oblique, 

 angled outwards below costa and above inner margin to which it is 

 strongly retracted ; claviform very large, deep brown defined by 

 black ; obicular purplish with slight whitish annulus defined bj' 

 black, more or less open above, somewhat oblique elliptical ; reni- 

 Ibrm with purplish or brownish centre and whitish annulus defined 

 by black, strongly angled inwards on median nervure and with its 

 upper extremity produced ; an indistinct medial line angled out- 

 wards on subcostal nervure and on vein 2, in submedian fold and on 

 vein 1 almost to postmedial line, the area beyond it before post- 

 medial line deep brown except towards costa ; postmedial line 

 black slightly defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, oblique to vein 5 where it is angled outwards, then inwardl}- 

 oblique and slightly sinuous, some black and white points beyond 

 it on veins 5 to 1 and some white poijits on costa : subterminal line 

 whitish slightly defined by brown on inner side, the area beyond it 

 suftused with brown except towards apex, somewhat angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules ; cilia ochreous mixed with brown and with brown line 

 through them. JJind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area 

 more or less suffused with brown especially in female ; a slight 

 discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, diffused subterminal band, 

 and a fine waved terminal line ; cilia ochreous white with a slight 

 brown line tlirough them ; the underside with the costal area tinged 

 with purplish pink, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal spot, slight curved postmedial line, and 

 traces of diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing much redder and withouu 

 whitish. 



Hah. Fkaxce, Sand and Leech Colls, ; Spain, Castile. Kr;p. 40-46 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 245. 



Food-plants : Broom and Sloe in spring. 



