JEDOPHRON. EHODOPHOEA. 



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with brown ; an oblique dark diseoidal bar. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, the veins streaked with brown. Underside white, the veins 

 slightlj' streaked with brown. 



Hah. Armenia; W. Turkestan", Trauscaspia, 1 S- Exp. 

 30 millim. 



68. JEdophron pMebophora. 



Mdopliron phlehopliora, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. ii. p. 144, pi. 2. f. 9 (1858) ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 



Head and thorax bright sulphur-yellow ; antennae ochreous ; 

 abdomen whitish, the extremity and ventral surface yellow. Fore 

 wing sulphur-yellow, the veins more or less strongly tinged with 

 brown. Hind wing white tinged with brown; the veins brown; 

 the termen suffused with yellow. 



Rah. Armenia ; Asia Minor, 3 c5' , 6 $ ; Stria, 2 <S , Mardin ; 

 Persia. Ex]). 32-34 millim. 



Larva. Stand. Hor. Ent. Soc. Ross. xiv. p. 401 (1878). 



Head pale brown, the segments with darker margins; body 

 greenish, with red-brown markings, paler towards extremity, 

 forming bands on each somite, sharply defined below, toothed 

 and with a pale point at the stigmata ; a prominent dorsal line ; 

 sublateral area tinged with brown ; the warts each with a short 

 hair. Food-plant, Phlomis. 



Genus KHODOPHORA. ^ 



Alaria, Westw. Jardine's Nat. Libr. xxxii. p. 200 (1841), non 



descr., nee Schrank, Vermes,. 1788 gcmrce. 



Bhodoijhora, Griien. Noct. ii. p. 170 (1852) gaurce. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, reaching just beyond the frons and 

 fringed with haiV below ; frons with slight rounded prominence and corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair ; fore tibi£e rather short and broad, spined at side 

 and with long curved inner claw and short outer claw ; mid and hind tibis 

 spined. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute ; veins 3 

 and 5 Irom near angle of cell ; 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. Hind wing pale. 



a. Fore wing with the terminal area pink gaurm. 



b. Fore wing with the terminal area yellow florida. 



E. Hind wing blackish feUcitata. 



69. Rhodophora gaurse. 



Phalana gaurce, Smith & Abb. Insects Georgia, ii. p. 197, ph 99 (1797) ; 



Westw. Jardine's Nat. Libr. xxxii. p. 200, pi. 24. f. 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 272. 

 Porphgrinia matutina, Hiibn. Ziitr. p. 35, ff. 557, 558 (1827). 



Head and thorax very pale yellow ; patagia and metathorax 

 orange posteriorly ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the tibiae and 



