RHODODIPSA.. 



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Genus RHODODIPSA. rr. „ 



xype. 



Bhododipsa, Grote, Bull. Geol. Siirv. iii. p. 797 (1877) volupia. 



Proboscis fully deyeloped ; palpi obliquely upturned to well in front of frons, 

 the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front ; frons with rounded prominence with 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax roughly 

 clothed with hair mixed with a few scales ; antennas of male ciliated ; fore 

 tibiaj short and broad, with long curved claw and two spines on inner side, and 

 four claws diminishing towards base on outer ; mid and hind tibiie strongly 

 spined. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute ; veins 3 and 5 

 from 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 shortly stalked. 



A. Hind wing crimson. 



a. Fore wing with the medial area wli ite , miniana. 



b. Fore wing with the medial area crimson volupia. 



B. Hind wing fuscous. 



a. Fore wing with the markings brownish ochreous masoni. 



b. Fore wing with the rjai'kings white aden. 



*75. Rhododipsa miniana. (Plate LY. fig. 29.) 



Bhododipsa miniana, Grote, Pap. i. p. 175 (1881) ; id. Pap. ii. p. 64, pi. 1. 

 fP. 1, 2 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 273. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow ; the medial area white, with slightly curved medial 

 yellow line, expanding into a diffused patch on outer side towards 

 costa ; a blood-red subterminal line dentate towards costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, then excurved and somewhat dentate. 

 Hind wing bright blood-red, the basal and inner areas orange- 

 yellow ; cilia yellow at base, white at tips. Underside of fore wing 

 bright blood-red, except marginal areas which are yellow ; hind 

 wing yellow, with diffused blood-red in lower part of cell, below the 

 cell, and thence to termen. 



Hctb. U.S.A., N"ew Mexico, Las Conces, in Coll. J. B. Smith. 

 Ex]). 24 millim. 



76. Rhododipsa volupia. 



Alaria volupia, Fitch, 12th Eep. Trans. N. Y. State Agr. Soc. 18.57, 

 pp. 900-908 (1358) ; Grote, 111. Essay, p. 62, pi. iii. f. 33 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 273. 



Fig. 26. — Bhododipsa volupia, S ■ t- 



Head and thorax orange-yello w ; mid and hind tibiae and tarsi tinged 

 with pink ; abdomen orange-yellow, the ventral surface pink. Pore 



