302 NOCTUID.E: 
on basal segments. Fore wing ochreous white slightly irrorated 
with black; slight subbasal black points below costa and cell and 
on vein 1; the basal area with three irregular diffused pink lines ; 
antemedial line black, minutely dentate to Just below the cell, then 
incurved ; reniform with pink spot in centre and elliptical black 
annulus; postmedial line black, strongly bent outwards below 
eosta, then oblique, dentate and strongly angled inwards in submedian 
fold, some black points beyond it on costa and two diffused dentate 
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Fig. 128.—Casandria nigropuncta, hia. he 
pink lines except towards costa; the terminal area suffused with 
pink and more strongly irrorated with black ; a series of small 
black spots just before termen. Hind wing semihyaline white, 
the termen suffused with brown, the inner margin clothed with 
brown hair; the underside with the costal area brownish, the 
patches of flocculent hair on underside of fore wing and upperside 
of hind wing black. 
9. Hind wing with more fuscous suffusion on terminal area ; 
the extremity of abdomen broad and suffused with fuscous. 
Hab. Cosra Rica, Juan Vinas; Corompra, Minca (H. H. Smith), 
typet d,@ in Coll. Druce; Vennzurra, Merida (Briceno); Brazat, 
Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 1 $. Exp. 36 millim, 
B. Fore wing of male without tuft of hair on underside ; hind wing with 
the apex truncate, the upperside with thick longitudinal ridges of scales 
below costa and vein 7 and above vein 5, the inner area dilated but the 
tornus not lobed. 
3663. Casandria melanographa, n. sp. 
3. Head and thorax ochreous, the tips of tufts on basal joint of 
antenn, the tips of tegule, the upper edge of patagia and a band 
near their base black; palpi with the 2nd joint black above; fore 
tibiz on inner side and the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen 
blackish with some ochreous at base and reddish towards extremity, 
the ventral surface ochreous with some black scales and three short 
black streaks at base and on anal tuft. Fore wing brownish white 
tinged with brick-red except on terminal half of costal area; a 
diffused waved subbasal black line from costa to vein 1 near base ; 
antemedial line black, oblique, slightly angled outwards below 
costa, the medial line just beyond it, black and irregularly 
dentate; reniform defined by black, large, round with its inner 
