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NOCXUIDJi:. 



6678. Casandria leucopis. (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 32.) 



Cascmdria lcuco2ns, Scliaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 205 (I'JIO). 



2 . Head and thorax white mixed with some blood-red ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous mixed with red 

 and blackish. Fore wing white mixed with pale red and fuscous ; 

 antemedial line black, nearly straight and erect to submedian fold, 

 then oblique and waved ; reniforin white with black annulus and 

 a few brown scales in centre, round ; postmedial line black on a 

 pale red band, acutely angled outwards below costa, oblique and 

 somewhat dentate below vein 4, a similar faint line before it ; 

 subterminal line diffused, white with a dentate blackish shade 

 before it, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and ending at tornus ; 

 a terminal black line. Hind wing semihyaliue white, the costa 

 towards apex and the extremities of the veins blackish ; a terminal 

 black line. 



Hah. Costa. Eica, Guapiles (Schaus), 1 $ eotype, Avangarez 

 Mines (Schaus), type f § in U.8. Nat. Mus. E.vj^. 26 millim. 



Genus ISCADIA. ^^ 



Type. 



Iscadla, Wlk. xi. 724 (1857) aperta. 



Encalypta, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xyi. p. 147 (1890) cqierta. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi upturned, the 2ncl joint reaching to vertex of 

 head and fringed with hair above towards eitremitj', the 3rd very long, oblique 

 and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons smooth with ridge of hair above; 

 eyes large, round ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax 

 without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; fore tibia; fringed on both 

 sides with very long hair, the mid and hind tibins moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing long and narrow, 

 the margins subparallel, the apex rectangular, the termen oblique towards 

 tornus, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a short very broad areole ; 11 

 iVoni cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from just before angle of cell; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



Sect. I. Antennte of male bipeetiuate with short branches, the apical part 

 serrate. 



A. Fore wing with the basal area not grey and contrasting. 



a. Fore wing black-brown nigra. 



h. Fore wing grey suffused with ))urple-brovi-n aperta. 



E. Fore wing with the basal area and inner area to postmedial 



line grey and conti'astiug dticiiijiddia. 



6679. Iscadia nigra. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 1.) 



Iscadia nigra, Schaus, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 103 (1906). 



2 . Head and thorax black-brown tinged with leaden grey ; palpi 

 below, pectus and legs Avhite mixed with brown ; abdomen white 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing black-brown suffused with leaden 

 grey; antemedial line double, black, oblique and slightly excurved 



