PYRALID^. 275 



spot at end of tlie cell : bind wing with a short upper subbasal and a discal vitreous- 

 white band. Tip of palpi and bands on legs brown. 

 Expanse -ru to yV inch. 



SAMEA RORIDAIIS. 

 Samea roridalis, Walker, Catal. Lcp. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 371 (1859), S . 

 Male. Yellow, slightly clouded and speckled with crimson : forewing with a 

 crimson-bordered spot at end of the cell, one at its end, a round spot below end of 

 the cell, and a short discal narrow crimson-bordered macular band : hindwing with 

 medial and discal crimson marks. Forelegs with brown bands. 

 Expanse -n^ inch. 



This species is very similar to the preceding, but the markings on both wings 

 are not vitreous-white. 



SAMEA RHODOPHILALIS (Plate 178, Fig. 13, ?). 



Endotricha rhodophilalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1311 (1865;. 

 Botys amcvnalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1443 (186.5). 

 Samea dives, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 682. 



Bright yellow. Wings slightly speckled with ochreous and rosy-red at the base ; 

 crossed by an antemedial and two postmedial undulated black-speckled lines : fore- 

 wing with a rosy-red patch descending obliquely from middle of the costa to lower 

 end of the postmedial line and is thence joined to a rosy-red streaked band, which 

 oiitwardly ascends the exterior line to the costa : hindwing with a similar rosy-red 

 outer band. Body speckled with ochreous ; head brown ; palpi brown speckled ; 

 legs ochreous-white ; forelegs with brown bands. 



Expanse to- inch. 



Genus COTACHENA. 

 Forewing long, very narrow, triangular ; cell very short, extending one-third the 

 length only ; first subcostal close to end of cell, second trifid, fifth from the end and 

 almost coalescent with third near its base ; discocellular oblique, upper radial from 

 its upper end, lower radial and two upper medians from end of cell, lower median 

 close to end of cell ; submedian straight, with a slender recurved lower branch : 

 hindwing rather long, triangular ; cell one-third the length ; two subcostals from 

 the end, upper partly joined to costal ; discocellular concave, radial and two upper 

 medians from end of cell, lower median close to the end ; a submedian and two 

 internal veins. Body moderately stout, abdomen keeled above, extending beyond 

 hindwings ; labial palpi porrect, rostriform, laxly squamous beneath ; maxillary 

 palpi oblique, distinct, slender ; antenna3 with very fine rather broad cilias ; legs 

 smooth, long, spurs long, slender, unequal. 



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