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FAMILY III. NEOCASTNIID^E, 



This small Family has lately been established by Sir George 

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

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

 wings with the base but slightly 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 antennae are 

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

 cina orientalis, Westwood, from Singapore, measures 2>% 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 NICEVILLEI. 

 (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 orientalis, 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^E. 



Egg. Much resembling a grain of wheat in shaoe and 

 appearance, but rounded on both sides. 



