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Genus ^DOPHRON. rr 



Type. 



^fZojijAjw?, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 180(1857) rhodites. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyoud frons, friaged with 

 long hair below ; frors with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it 

 produced at sides into lateral walls ; eyes large, rounded ; autennte of male 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with long hair ; fore tibiiB with long curved 

 claw on outer side and another at end of 1st joint of tarsus ; mid and hind 

 tibii» slightly spined ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing with the 

 apex moderately produced ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from well 

 above angle ; 6 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. 



A. Fore wing prominently streaked with pink rhodites. 



B. Fore wing with slight dusky streaks. 



a. Fore wing with dark diseoidal bar venosa. 



b. Fore wing without dark diseoidal bar phlebophora. 



66. ^dophron rhodites. 



Heiiothis rhodites, Ev. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1851, p. 635; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 223. 

 Simyra aurorina, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. Suppl. f. 579 (1851). 



(S . Head and thorax dull pink ; pectus and legs whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown. Pore wing purplish 

 pink the medial part of costal area greyish ; the cell, a streak 

 below basal half of vein 1, another below vein 2, and others above 



Fig. 23. — Mdophron rhodites, (^ . \. 



and below vein 5 pale yellow ; some yellowish spots on termen ; 

 cell yellow intersected with pink. Hind wing white, suffused with 

 fuscous except in cell and on costa ; cilia white intersected 

 with brown. Underside white, the veins brownish, the terminal 

 area tinged with pink. 



JIab. Russia, Central and Eastern, Astrabad, 1 cJ ; Aemenia ; 

 Asia Mikor, Pontus, Taurus ; Persia, ^a^j. 32 milhm. 



67. .ffidophron venosa. 



Mdophron venosa, Christ, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 165 ; id. Rom. Mem. v. 

 p. 38, pi. 2. f. 9 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 



Head and thorax pale oehreous yellow ; abdomen yellowish 

 white. Pore wing pale oehreous yellow, the veins finely streaked 



