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NOCTUIDJU. 



tarsi tinged with pink. Pore wing very pale yellow 

 area deep rose-pink down to submedian fold, emitting 

 subcostal and median nervures, and with some pink 



i the basal 

 streaks on 

 below its 



extremity ; an oblique very deep pink postmedial band arising from 



Fig. 24. — Bhodo]jlto)-a i/aurcB, (^ . \. 



costa near apex, angled inwards in discal fold, almost obsolete 

 below snbmedian ibid, and bent outwards to inner margin ; the 

 terminal area suffused with pink ; cilia pink. Hind wing white ; 

 the terminal area more or less suffused with pink down to vein 2. 

 Underside of fore wing with the costal and terminal areas pink. 



Eah. U.S.A., S. States, Georgia, 3^,3$ (Dotihleday), Colorado. 

 E.vp. 34 millim. 



Larva (redescribed). — Head 3*5 millim., brown, with irregular 

 darker blotches over the lobes. Body pale orange, a sharp 

 transverse black stripe in the centre of each segment to the 

 subventral fold, and more obscure bands in the incisures. A 

 rounded subdorsal spot on anterior edge of somite 1 ; feet black 

 marked. 



Food-plant, Gaura. — H. G. D. 



70. Ehodophora florida. (Plate LV. fig. 26.) 



'Rhodopliora florida, Gueii. Noct. ii. p. 171, pi. 9. f. 7 (1852); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am.p. 272. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; palpi pink ; head 

 and tegulae tinged with pink ; the pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen pink. Fore wing rose-pink, with some ochreous yellow 

 at base of inner margin ; traces of a Y-shaped medial yellowish 

 band often present defining the reniform stigma and not reaching 

 costa ; the terminal area ochreous yellow, with oblique, rather 

 irregular inner edge. Hind wing yellowish white. Underside 

 with the costal area of both wings more or less suffused with 

 pink. 



Hal). Canada, Orilla (Bush), 2 $ ; U.S.A., Eastern States, 4 6 , 

 2. § , N. York (Douhleday), 1 c? type, Utah. Exy. 34 millim. 



Larva. Saunders, Can. Ent. ii. 6 (1869). 



Head pale green ; body green, with dorsal darker vascular line ; 

 lateral line faint, dark ; a reddish lateral patch on joint 2. Skin 

 translucent, furnished dorsally with fine pile. 



Food-plant, flowers of (Enotliera. — H. G. D. 



