NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 199 



?. Forewing with rather diffused triangular blackish patch on medial area 

 in submedian interspace instead of the obUque shade. 



Hah. PhiUppines, Luzon, Los Barios (Baker), 1 cj, 1 V type. Exp. 3 26, 

 ? 30 mill. 



6667«. Cassandria phoenicias n. sp. 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown mixed with some grey, the 

 last with the three terminal segments grey tinged with rufous ; antennae dark 

 red-brown, the basal joint white except at extremity ; tarsi white banded with 

 black-brown ; ventral surface of abdomen red-brown. Forewing red-brown 

 suffused with purple and mixed with grey to just beyond the cell ; two sUght 

 black streaks below costa towards base ; antemedial Une shght, black, inter- 

 rupted, excurved at subcostal nervure, then sinuous ; reniform red-brown with 

 a small white spot in centre and defined by black striae, round, with a black 

 streak before it in diseal fold ; postmedial Une black sUghtly defined on outer 

 side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, oblique to vein 6, then 

 inwardly oblique ; subterminal line grey, angled out^\•ards below costa, where 

 there is a short chocolate-brown fascia before it, then waved, double below 

 diseal fold ; a terminal series of slight grey lunules. Hindwing uniform glossy 

 red-brown. Underside grey-bro\vn with a reddish tinge ; forewing with the 

 costal edge white except towards base and with two sUght dark marks beyond 

 middle ; hindwing with the inner area pale except towards tornus, the costal 

 edge white towards apex. 



Hab. Panama, Lino (Fassl), 1 $ type. Exj). 38 mill. 



6691f(. Elaeognatha phanerostola n. sp. 



Forewing of male on underside ^\•ith fringe of hair from below costa to 

 beyond middle ; liindwing on upperside with fringe of long hair below basal half 

 of costa, the rest of wing clothed \vdth rough scales and witli a fringe of upturned 

 hair in submedian fold, the termen shghtly excised below apex and more strongly 

 in submedian interspace. 



(J. Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown, the tegulae with red- 

 brown dorsal patch ; antennae rufous ; palpi with deep red-brown stripe at side 

 of 2nd joint ; abdomen whitish suffused with pale red-brown ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with rufous. Forewing silvery white 

 irrorated with red-brown, a spot at base in and below the cell, a truncate conical 

 antemedial patch from costa to median nervure conjoined on costal area to a 

 quadrate medial patch extenchng into the end of cell, which again is conjoined 

 to an obhque patch below end of cell, and the postmedial and terminal areas 

 from costa to diseal fold deep red-brown with a golden gloss ; a small deep red- 

 brown spot defined by white in middle of cell ; the postmedial line represented 

 by a short deep brown streak on costa, the hne arising below the costa, obUquely 

 incurved to below vein 5, then obUque and waved to vein I , on which it is strongly 

 bent inwards and obsolete, then outwardly oblique to inner margin ; subter- 

 minal line white on the red-brown area, incurved below costa and excurved at 

 vein 6, then shght, double, red-brown, sUghtly waved, incurved at submedian 

 fold and ending at tornus ; a terminal series of deep red-bro^^^l striae. Hind- 

 wing white tinged with orange-yellow, the inner area white, the fringe of scales 



