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Genus RHODCECIA, nov. 



Type, 7?. auranfiago. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frous and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennaa of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales, the urcthorax with sharp ridge-like crest, the nieta- 

 thorax with spreading crest; tibiic moderately fringed with hair; the fore 

 tarsus with curvetl claw-like spines on outer side of the joints; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disoo- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4353. Rhodcecia aurantiago. 



Xanthia aurantiago, Guen. Noct. i. p. 394, pi. 7. f. 1 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 219. 

 Pyrrhia illiferata, Grote, Proc. Ac. lS\at. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 211. 

 Orthosia differta, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 67. 

 Heliotkis ilUnoisensis, French, Can. Ent. xi. p. 77 (1879). 



S . Head and thorax crimson-red, the scales slightly tipped with 

 grey, the tegulse and pata^ia with blackish tips ; abdomen fulvous 

 yellow. Fore wing purplish red, the medial area more orange- 

 red, the terminal area slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 blackish, waved, from costa to subinedian fold ; antemedial lino 

 blackish, waved, nearly erect ; orbicular and reniform hardly 

 traceable, defined by a few dark scales ; postmedial line black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then crenulate aud produced to black points 



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Fig. 15. — Rhoclxcia aurantiago, J' . \. 



on the veins, incurved below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of verv 

 faint blackish spots, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia 

 purplish crimson. Hind wing ochreous almost entirely suffused 

 with purplish crimson ; the underside ochreous with the costal and 

 terminal areas suffused with purplish crimson. 



2 . Fore wing more uniform fulvous red, the orbicular and reni- 

 form more distinct, the former round, the latter defined by black 

 points and constricted at middle, the postmedial line with fuscous 

 shade on outer edge, the subterminal series of spots more distinct, 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing with traces of diffused 

 dark subterminal band; the underside with postmedial line, terminal 

 series of slight lunules, and dark line through the cilia. 



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