358 NOCTUID^. 



Fore wing of male witli the costa strongly excised towards base 

 and arched beyond middle ; fore tibiae dilated. 



Hah. Cosi'A lliCA, Avangarez (ScJums), 1 cJ , Guapiles (ScJiaus), 

 typet d, $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 28 millim. 



6670. Casandria metaphsea, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 11.) 



c^ . Head and thorax whitish mixed with rufous ; palpi with 

 some black at base of 2nd joint ; patagia with black medial bar ; 

 fore tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen white dorsally 

 sutfased with rufous and with blackish towards extremity, the 

 ventral surface whiter with paired series of black points. Tore 

 wing white suffused and irrorated with cupreous brown, the costal 

 area whiter ; subbasal line black, inwardly oblique, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, the outer line 

 black, oblique to submedian fold, then incurved ; traces of an 

 oblique waved medial line ; reniform with cupreous brown centre 

 and whitish aunulus defined by black, round, an indistinct dark 

 figure-of-eight shaped mark beyond it ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double, the inner line black, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 where it is acutely angled, slightly dentate at veins 4, 3, then 

 bent inwards to below extremitj- of reniform and oblique and 

 dentate to inner margin, some black points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterrainal line indistinct, whitish slightly defined on inner side 

 by fuscous, dentate, angled inwards at discal fold and incurved 

 below vein 2 ; a black terminal line. Hind wing uniform fuscous 

 brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia white at tips. 



2 . Hind w^ing hyaline, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Yinas [Schaus), 1 5 ,Tuis (S-7ums), 1 J ; 

 Panama, La Chorreia {^DoJhy-Tyler), 1 6 type. Exp. 34 millim. 



6671. Casandria chirica. (riate CLXXXIII. fig. 12.) 



Casandria chirica, Scbaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 108 (1906). 

 hcaclia a-perta, Druce, Biol. Ceiitr.-Am., Hct. ii. p. 471 (part.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white suffused with rufous ; 

 patagia with blackish bar at middle; fore and mid tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated 

 wuth fuscous and with sublateral series of black points. Fore 

 wing white suffused with golden browu, the costal area whiter ; 

 subbasal line black, inwardly oblique, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black, oblique to submedian fold and incurved just 

 below it ; an indistinct waved medial line ; reniform with brown 

 centre and white aunulus defined by black, round, an indistinct 

 dark somewhat figure-of-eight-shaped mark beyond it ; postmedial 

 line black, strongly bent outwards below costa where it is acutely 

 angled, slightly dentate at veins 4, 3 then bent inwards to below 



