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CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 25. CASANDEIA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi 

 porrecti, validi, caput paullo superantes ; articulus 3us minimus. 

 Antennae subciliatae, sat validae. Abdomen alas posticas triente 

 superans. Pedes validi ; tibia) posticae calcaribus longis. Ala3 an- 

 tica3 longae, mediocriter lata?, apud costam rectae, apice rotundatae, 

 margine exteriore vix obliquo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi por- 

 rect, stout, extending a little beyond the head ; third joint not more 

 than one-sixth of the length of the second. Antennae rather stout, 

 very minutely ciliated. Abdomen extending for one-third of its 

 length beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; hind tibiae with long 

 spurs. Fore wings long, moderately broad, quite straight in front, 

 rounded at the tips, hardly oblique along the exterior border. 



I. Casandkia emittens. 



Foem. Pallidissime cervina ; thorax antice fuscescens; alee an- 

 ticce vix viridi tinctce, nigra subconspersce, liluris costalibus 

 nigris, lineis subobsoletis, una exteriore fusca recta intus 

 nigro marginata, striga nigra fasciaque viridescente exteriori- 

 bus, macula magna costali nigro-cinerea guttisque duabus siri- 

 gaque approximatis nigris, guttis submarginalibus nigris 

 albisque, lunulis marginalibus nigris minimis, ciliis nigro 

 maculatis, orbiculari et reniformi albido marginatis, ilia 

 transversa non ohliqua ; postica albidce iridescentes sub- 

 hyalince, marginibus latis fuscescentibus. 



Female. Very pale fawn-colour. Thorax brownish in front. 

 Fore wings slightly flecked with black, with an indistinct green 

 tinge and with transverse black marks along the costa ; transverse 

 lines almost obsolete, excepting one beyond the reniform spot, 

 which line is brown, straight, and not oblique, and is accompanied 

 on its inner side by a black line, the latter emitting a black streak 

 towards the exterior border; this streak joins an indistinct greenish 

 band which is united to a large blackish gray costal spot; the latter 

 has on its outer side two black dots and a black streak, which joins 

 the third of the black and white submarginal dots; marginal 

 hmules black and very small; ciliae with blackish spots ; orbicular 

 and reniform spots and a mark behind them with whitish borders ; 

 orbicular transverse, not oblique. Hind wings whitish, iridescent, 



