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6666. Casandria chlorotica. 



Casandria cJdorotica, Schaus, A. M, N. H. (8) vl. p. 205 (1910). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale red and olive-green ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint black above ; tegulae with blact lines near 

 base and at tips ; fore and mid tibiae with black points, the tarsi 

 banded with black. Fore wing whitish tinged with pale red and 

 olive-green and irrorated slightly with black ; the base of subcostal 

 nervure streaked with black ; subbasal line black, waved, from 

 costa to SLibmedian fold ; antemedial line black, strongly excurved 

 in cell, then waved ; reniforin defined by black, very large and 

 rounded ; a faint oblique shade from middle of costa and a diffused 

 oblique waved line from vein 6 beyond the cell to middle of inner 

 margin ; postmedial line black, touching the reniform and strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique below vein 4 

 to inner margin near the medial and antemedial lines, a faint red 



Fig. 131. — Casandria cJdorotica, c?. !• 



band beyond it, and some small black spots on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish, minutely waved, defined on inner side by somewhat 

 dentate black marks and spot at submedian fold, and on outer sido 

 by small blackish spots ; a terminal series of small black spots. 

 Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the veins and terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous white. 



Rah. Costa. Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 2 cj ; Colombia, Rio Derg 

 in Coll. Druce. Exj). d 36, $ 40 millim. Tyjje f (S , $ in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



*6667. Casandria purpurascens. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 17.) 



Casandria imrpurascens, Schaus, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xiii. p. 42 (1911). 



5 . Head brown mixed with ochreous ; palpi brown behind, 

 whitish in front; thorax dark brown mixed with grey- white, the 

 teguliB with whitish patch at base ; pectus and legs ochreous and 

 brown, the fore and mid tarsi dark brown ringed with ochreous ; 

 abdomen brown mixed with grey, the anal tuft with some ochreous. 

 Fore wing reddish ochreous irrorated with purplish red and suffused 

 with purplish fuscous and grey except on basal area and inner half of 

 postmedial area ; a slight waved red subbasal line from costa to vein 

 1 ; antemedial line dark slightly defined on inner side by ochreous, 

 waved ; reniform reddish ochreous defined by dark brown and with 



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