COTACHEXA. — CROCIDOPHORA. 
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segments of abdomen whitish. Fore wing pale fulvous ; oblique waved antemedial and 
medial black lines not reaching the costa ; a white spot in the cell between them and a black- 
edged white spot beyond the medial line below first median ncrvure ; 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 exeurved 
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. IG.) 
Expanse \^ 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, then 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 band from the main subcostal, 
where it is broad, to the outer angle, towards which it narrows. Hind wing pale yellow ; the 
costal area silvery M'hite, 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 nervules joining a transverse streak which runs from the lower angle of the cell to 
the first 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 \ inch. 
Male. Ochreous in 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 jjost- 
medial lines ; a dark line on the discocellulars. Hind wing with the outer margin purplish 
black ; an indistinct rufous postmedial line. 
