COTACHEXA.— CROCIDOPIIOUA. 1 03 



segments of abdonuMi whitisli. Fore wing pale fulvous; ol)li([ue waved antemedial and 

 medial black lines not reaching the costa; a white sfxit in iIk." cell between them and a black- 

 edged white spot beyond the medial line below first median nervure ; a black-edged white 

 spot beyond the cell, with traces of a line from its lower outer angle to inner margin. 

 Hind wing bright ochreous ; traces of medial and postmedial dark lines highly excurved 

 towards inner margin. 



Nascia arenalis. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 29.) 

 . Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male. Palpi brown at sides, white below; head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing uniform 

 ochreous, the veins slightly darker, the costa whitish. Hind wing pale yellow, very slightly 

 suffused with fuscous at the apex. Legs and pectus white. 



Crocidophora argentealis. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 16.) 



Expanse \if inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow above, white below. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow, the inner area very pale yellow, except at outer angle ; an orange spot on the 

 lobe of the inner margin ; an orange outwardly-oblique line from the median nervure near 

 base to centre of inner margin ; a second orange line from the lower angle of cell, descending 

 to first median nervule, theu sending back a loop to near the origin of the same nervule, and 

 reaching the inner margin near the outer angle ; a large dark stigma at end of cell with a 

 purplish-silvery tinge ; a similarly coloured submarginal baud from the main subcostal, 

 where it is broad, to the outer angle, towards which it narrows. Hind wing pale yellow ; the 

 costal area silvery white, as also are the folds of the wing below the median nervure and on 

 inner margin ; two orange streaks from the median nervure along the first and second 

 median uervules joining a transverse streak which runs from the lower angle of the cell to 

 the tirst median nervule near outer margin ; a dark marginal band with a purplish-silvery 

 tinge from the lower subcostal to first median nervule. 



Crocidophora rufalis. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 28.) 



Expanse h inch. 



Male. Ochreous iu colour suffused with rufous. Fore wing with the costa and outer 

 margin purplish black ; some of the rufous scales are formed into waved medial and post- 

 medial Hues ; a dark line on the discocellulars. Hind wing with the outer margin purplish 

 black ; an indistinct rufous postmedial line. 



