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Legs mostly whitish, partly brown. Fore wings aeneons gray, 

 with a fusiform rosy streak beyond the middle of the costa, and 

 with a rosy discal stripe along more than half the length from the 

 base, dilated and joining the hind border at each end. Apical 

 third part of the hind wings aeneous gray. Length of the body 

 2| — 2J lines ; of the wings 1 — 8 lines. 



Var. a. Costal streak of primaries wanting, discal stripe ap- 

 pearing only at its tip. 



Var. b. Discal stripe of primaries replaced by a slender streak, 



which extends along the hind border and is slightly dilated at the 



tip. 



United States. 



Walker. 



CROCOTA Hubner. 

 Male and Female. Body moderately stout, not long. Palpi 

 stout, porrect, pubescent, as long as the head ; third joint slender, 

 acuminated, not half the length of the second. Antennae setaceous, 

 slightly setose, rather stout, hardly or not more than half the 

 length of the body. Abdomen not extending so far as the hind 

 wings. Legs rather slender ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. 

 Wings rather broad, not long. Primaries very slightly convex in 

 front, slightly angular at the tips, oblique along the apical border, 

 indistinctly angular behind ; first, second and third inferior veins 

 approximate at the base ; fourth remote from the third. 



1. C. ferruginosa Walk. 



Ferruginous, paler beneath. Abdomen pale ferruginous, with a 



row of dorsal black dots. Secondaries pale ferruginous, with a 



blackish dot in the disk and two or three blackish spots along the 



border. Length of the body 3J — 4 lines; of the wings 10 — 11 



lines. 



Hudson's Bay. 



Walker. 



2. C. brevicornis Walk. 



Fawn color, or luteous fawn color. Antennae black, short. 

 Abdomen rose-color. Primaries rosy beneath. Secondaries rose- 

 color, with an indistinct and sometimes quite obsolete brown stripe 



