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Expanse c-f wings 0.85 inch. ILih. Texas, Belfi-age. 



Similar to ?^/;//<m/(7, but uf a darker and different tint and fewer 

 pale markings. 



Cisthene lactea. Eyes black. Antennre brown. Palpi black. Tongue as 

 long as the body. Entire insect otherwise white above and on the body parts, the 

 underside of the wings being smoky, especially the primaries, on the latter are usually 

 sbc small black spots, three on the costa, equally spaced; one just outside the discal 

 cell, and two in the space below the median vein, one of them being near the base, 

 and the other near the outer margin. 



Expanse of wings 0.70 inch. Hah. Providence Mountain, Bernar- 

 dino County, California. 



This species may not strictly belong to Cislhme but the material is 

 too scant to allow of dissection. 



Crocata Belfragei. Eyes black. Head, palpi, collar, thorax and primaries, 

 concolorous, clear yellowish brown. Secondaries reddish, with a moderately wide, 

 outer, blackish border. Fringes red. Beneath reddish on all wings, as are the 

 underside of palpi and abdomen ; the latter above, dull orange, with a dorsal and 

 lateral series of black .spots. Legs somewhat dusky. 



Expanse of wings 0.85 inch. Hab. Texas, Belfrage. 



Intermediate in size between ruhuundaria and cosiata, and very 

 different from either in color and shape of the primaries, which are square 

 at the tips, the inner margin being much longer proportionally, and the 

 outer margin less oblique than in either of the species mentioned. 



Crocota costata. Eyes black, head reddish, palpi same with dusky tips. 

 Thorax pale stone color, collar very narrowly edged with red. Abdomen pale red. 

 Underparts reddish; outside of legs dusky. Primaries pale stone color, dusted with 

 red scales, which are most conspicuous along the costa and on the discal vein. Sec- 

 ondaries pale reddish, of the tint of red -lead. Beneath, all wings pale reddish, not so 

 dark as secondaries above. 



Expanse of wings 1. 10 inch. Hab. Texas, Belfrage. 



Allied to rubicundaria, but larger; with the primaries and thorax of 

 a very different color; the primaries are long and comparatively narrow, 

 with the outer margin very oblique. 



Crocata obscura. Pale fawn color to smoky brown; when of the latter color, 

 the entire insect is concolorous, except the eyes which are black, and the costa of the 

 primaries beneath which is enclosed to red. The same is the case when entirely fawn 

 color. Sometimes the primaries are fawn color and the secondaries smoky, in which 

 case the head, thorax and abdomen are the color of the primaries. 



Expanse of wings 1.05 inch. Hab. Pennsylvania, Strecker; New 

 Hampshire, Fernald. 



This insect has been sent to me under the name of J'erruginosa, 

 Walker, and is so described by Packard in his monograph of the Bom- 

 bycidos, but this cannot be ■3,.% ferruginosa has a discal dot on the sec- 

 ondaries like brevkortm. 



