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Gen. 19. Cascera. 



Cascera, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxxii. p. 460. 



Head rough-haired. Eyes naked. Tongue well developed. 

 Palpi recurved, ascending, reaching vertex; second joint very 

 long, anteriorly rough-scaled; terminal joint moderate. Antenna^ 

 in $ bipectinated, apical | simple; in 9 simple. Thorax with a 

 small posterior crest. Posterior tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 

 Forewings v/ith 2 from J, 3 from angle, 6 from areole before or 

 beyond middle, 7 from end of areole or from 8 + 9 beyond areole, 

 10 from areole. Hindwings with 3 and 4 separate, 6 and 7 

 stalked, 8 approximated (sometimes anastomosing) to beyond 

 middle of cell. 



Type, C. 7nuscosa, Wlk. 



1. Forewings partly green muxcosa. 



Forewings without green markings (uiu/dra. 



29. Cascera muscosa. 



[Muscosus, mossy.] 



Cascera muscosa, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxxii., p. 461. 



9. 54 mm. Head and palpi brown mixed with whitish; vertex 

 ochreous-tiiiged. Antennae brown. Thorax brown mixed with 

 pale green. Abdomen brownish-grey. Legs brown mixed with 

 whitish; anterior pair greenish-tinged. Forewings elongate-tri- 

 angular, costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen 

 obliquely rounded, crenulate, brown mixed with grey, whitish, 

 and green forming very complex markings which are probabl}' 

 variable; costa barred with dark brown and greenish; an irregu- 

 lar green patch near base, and an irregular broad median green 

 band; a whitish spot on costa at |, and another in dorsal part of 

 disc at J; beyond median green band is a dark brown band, its 

 outer edge distinct and crenated; beyond this is a subterminal 

 series of green spots edged posteriorly first by whitish, then by 

 dark brown; cilia greenish. Hindwings with termen rounded, 

 wavy; brownish-grey; two or three whitish spots in a line parallel 



