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and mid tibiae with black spot, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen with dorsal black lines on 3rd and 4th segments, a double 

 black spot towards extremity and some black at side of anal tuft, 

 the ventral surface with sublateral series of oblique black strige. 

 Eore wing white suffused with pale reddish ochreous ; subbasal 

 line black, oblique, dentate, from costa to submedian fold ; 



Fig. 132. — Casandria ahseuzalis, (^ . \, 



antemedlal line slight, black, oblique, dentate, small black spots 

 beyond it in and below cell ; a small black discoidal spot with 

 white centre ; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, at vein 3 bent inwards to below end of cell ; a sub- 

 terminal series of small black spots with larger spot at submedian 

 fold ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline 

 w^hite, the veins towards termen and the termen fuscous black ; 

 cilia white. 



Fore wing of male with tho costa very slightly excised towards 

 base and arched beyond middle ; veins 2, 3 from a point towards 

 end of cell. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, 1 S ; Bahamas, Nassau {Sh O. Carter), 

 1 cj ; Cuba, Tanamo (Schaus), 2 cJ , 1 $ , Santiago (ScJiaus), 1 $ ; 

 PoKTO Ilico; GiiENkVA {H. II. Smith), 1 (5 , 1 § type timiidicosta ; 

 Brazil, 1 § , Bahia, 1 $ , Kio Janeiro, type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



6669. Casandria arcuata. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 18.) 



Casandria arcuata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 205 (1910). 



cT . Head and thorax grey mixed with pale rufous and brown ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; abdomen ferruginous 

 towards extremity, grey-brown towards base, the male with small 

 paired black spots on penultimate segment above and below. Fore 

 wing pale brown with a faint olive tinge and brown suffusion; 

 traces of a waved dark antemedial line; a blackish discoidal bar ; 

 a faint oblique dark striga from middle of costa and waved line 

 from vein 6 beyond the cell, very oblique below vein 4 ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, dark, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 at vein 6 and oblique below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of faint 

 dark spots and a terminal series of points. Hind wing greyish 

 uniformly suflfused with fuscous brown. 



9 . Head, thorax, and fore wing paler, the last with more 

 prominent blackish subterminal spot in submedian fold. 



