34 Lloyd's natural historV. 



FAMILY III. NEOCASTNIID^. 



This small Family has lately been established by Sir Georg(i 

 Hampson to include two East Indian genera : Tascina, West- 

 wood, and Neocastnia, Hampson. They have broad fore- 

 wings with the base but slighdy narrowed, the costa arched, 

 and the tip more or less falcate ; the hind-wings are broad and 

 rounded; all the wing-cells are open. The antennse are 

 strongly thickened before the extremity, as in Castnia. Tas- 

 c'ma oriental-is, Westwood, from Singapore, measures 3>^ inches 

 across the fore-wings, which are sub-falcate, and dark brown, 

 with a white stripe running from below the middle of the costa 

 to the hind-margin, just above the hinder angle ; the hind-wings 

 are of a dull red, with a broad brown border. It is found at 

 Singapore. 



NEOCASTNIA NICEVILLEL 

 {Plate LXXII. Fig. 4.) 

 Neocastnia nicevillei, Hampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1895 

 p. 285, cum fig. 

 This species, which is found in Tenasserim, has golden- 

 rufous fore-wings, with a broad white band running from the 

 middle of the costa to the inner margin, within the hinder 

 angle ; the hind-wings are black, with a large blue patch in the 

 middle. It is slightly larger than Tascina orioitalis, and the tip 

 of the fore-wings is less pointed. Another species of Neocast- 

 nia, N. metallica ( Pagenstecher) from Celebes, has a narrower 

 white band on the fore-wings, which, as well as the thorax, are 

 suffused with blue. 



FAMILY IV. CASTNIID^. 



Egg. — Much resembling a grain of wheat in shaDC and 

 appearance, but rounded on both sides. 



