LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1919 



Asthenia strictuaria. 



Therinia strictuaria, Hubn. Exot. Schm. iii. 36, 284, f. 567, 568— 

 Asthenia Machaonaria, C. L. H. xxxii. 379. 



Asthenia geometraria. 

 geometraria, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. 188. 

 Rio Negro, Brazil. 



Asthenia mundaria. 



Mas et fcem. Alba; caput vertice fusco ; palpi breves, oblique 

 ascendentes, supra fusci, articulo 3o conico ; alee anticce vitta 

 costali fasciaque marginali fuscis, costa lituris fuscescente- 

 cinereis ; posticce subcaudatce, fascia fusca submarginali lata, 

 maculis duabus nigris marginalibus. 



Male and female. White. Head with a brown vertex. Palpi 

 obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the vertex, brown above, 

 except at the tips; third joint conical, minute. Antennae of the 

 male stout. Abdomen much shorter than the interior border of the 

 fore wings. Tarsi, middle femora and middle tibia? fawn-colour 

 above ; fore femora brown above. Fore wings broadly bordered with 

 brown along the costa and along the exterior border; costa with 

 brownish cinereous speckles. Hind wings with a broad brown sub- 

 marginal band ; two large deep black spots on the hind part of the 

 exterior border, which forms a very short tail. Length of the body 

 7 — 8 lines ; of the wings 24 — 28 lines. 



Gilolo. New Guinea. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus CASAMBA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Caput thorace subimmersum. Pro- 

 boscis nulla. Palpi brevissimi. Antennae breves, subpectinatae. 

 Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans; fasciculus apicalis parvus, 

 quadratus. Pedes graciles, fimbriati ; tibiae posticae quadricalcarataa. 

 Alae anticaa latae, elongatae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore con- 

 vexo perobliquo. 



Male. Body stout. Head deeply inserted in the fore part of 

 the thorax, Proboscis obsolete. Palpi extremely short. Antennae 

 short, slightly pectinated. Abdomen extending a little beyond the 



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