CASAJfDRIA. 851 



Sect. I. Anheiinre of male bipectinato vvitli long branches, th» apex ciliated, 

 a large tult of hail- from basal joint. 



6661. Casandria ferrocana. 



Lccphyama ferrocana, Wlk. xi. 720 (18.57). 

 Laphjjgma nigriscripta, Wlk. x\xii. 649 (1865). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with some pinkish ; 

 palpi with some black and pink scales at side of 2nd joint ; tegiilae 

 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 wit-h ]Mnkisb spot 

 in centre and defined by black, its inner edge produced to a point 



Fig. 127. — Casandria ferrocana, c^ . i. 



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 ; a diffused dentate pinkish subterminal 

 shade; a series of black points just before termen. Hind- wing 

 Kcmihyaline white tinged with brown especially on the veins and 

 terminal area. 



Bah. Jamaica {Gosse, Kaye), 1 J, 2 $ type, Runaway Bay 

 {Walsh gham), 1 2 ; Cuba, Santiago (SrJiavs), 1 $ ; Haiti 

 {Tweedie), 1 $ type nigriseripta. Exp. 26-30 miJlim, 



Sect. II. Antennse of male 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 viith the apex truncate, a lari)e 

 patch of floccultnt hair on upperside below costa beyond the cell, the 

 inner area greatly dilated and the tornus lobed. 



6662. Casandria nigropuncta. 



Neosiidoptera nigropuncta, Druce, A. M. N. II. (7) v. p. 519 (1900). 



Head and thorax white mixedWifh purplish pink ; palpi with 

 the 2ud joint black at sides; antenna; with the tuft from basal 

 joint with black mixed : tegulae with strong black line near base; 

 fore and mid tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen white mixed 

 with black and pinldsb, some black scales in the lateral tufts, the 

 ventral surface yelloAvish with sublateral and ventral black streaks 



