352 NOCTTJIDiE. 



on basal segments. Foro wing ochreous white slightly irrorated 

 with black ; slight subbasal black points bolow 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 ; reniforna with pink spot in centre and elliptical black 

 annulus ; postmedial line black, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique, dentate and strongly angled inwards in submedian 

 fold, some black points beyond it on costa and two diffused dentate 



Fig. 128. — Casandrianigropuncta, S. \, 



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 semihy aline 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. 



2 . Hind wing with more fuscous suffusion on terminal area ; 

 the extremity of abdomen broad and suffused with fuscous. 



Hub. Costa Uica, Juan Vinas ; Colombia, Minca {H. H. Smith)^ 

 type t (^ , $ in Coll. Druce : Venezuela, Merida {Briceno) ; Beazil, 

 Organ Mts., Tijuca ( Wagner)^ 1 c5" • Exp. 36 millim. 



B4 Fore wing of male without tuft of hair on underside ; hind wing witli 

 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. 



6663. Casandria melanographa, n. sp. 



c^ , Head and thorax ochreous, the tips of tufts on basal joint of 

 antennae, the tips of tegulge, the upper edge of patagia and a band 

 near their base black; palpi with the 2nd joint black above; fore 

 tibiae 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 



