CASANDRIA. 351 
Scr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with long branches, the apex ciliated, 
a large tuft of hair from basal joint. 
6661, Casandria ferrocana. 
Laphyama ferrocana, Wik. xi. 720 (1857). 
Laphygma nigriscripta, Wik. xxxii. 649 (1865). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with some pinkish ; 
palpi with some black and pink scales at side of 2nd joint ; tegule 
with dark medial line; abdomen with lateral series of black points, 
sublateral bars at base and three ventral streaks. Fore wing white 
more or less suffused with pinkish except on costal area ; ; an obliquely 
curved subbasal black striga from below costa to vein 1, followed 
by another oblique black striga ; antemedial line black, dentate at 
discal and submedian folds and vein 1, with slight pinkish marks 
before it at costa and submedian fold; reniform with pinkish spot 
in centre and defined by black, its inner edge produced to a point 
Fig. 127.—Casandria ferrocana, S. 3 
T° 
in discal fold; a black striga from middle of costa and some points 
on terminal half; postmedial line black with a diffused pinkish 
line beyond it, arising below costa, dentate below discal fold and 
produced inwards to a long tooth in submedian fold, a curved black 
mark beyond it from costa ; 2 diffused dentate pinkish subterminal 
shade; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing 
semihyaline white tinged with brown especially on the veins and 
terminal area. 
Hab. Jamaica (Gosse, Kaye), 1 3, 2 9 type, Runaway Bay 
(Walsingham), 1 2; Cua, Santiago (Schaus), 1 9 ; Harr 
(Tweedie), 1 Q type mgriscripta. Hep. 26-30 millim. 
Sect. IT. Antenne of inale ciliated, a large tuft of hair from basal joint. 
A. (Neostictoptera). Fore wing of male with tuft of long flocculent hair 
below the cell on underside; hind wing with the apex truncate, a large 
patch of flocculent hair on upperside below costa beyond the cell, the 
inner area greatly dilated and the tornus lobed, 
6662, Casandria nigropuncta. 
Neostictoptera nigropuncta, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) v. p. 519 (1900), 
Head and thorax white mixed with purplish pink; palpi with 
the 2nd joint black at sides; antenne with the tuft from basal 
joint with black mixed; tegule with strong black Jine near base; 
fore and mid tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen white mixed 
with black and pinkish, some black scales in the lateral tufts, the 
ventral surface yellowish with sublateral and ventral black streaks 
