CASANDRIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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Type. C. emittens Wkr. 
C. ferrocana Wkr. (= nigriscripta Wkr.). This is the only species in which the antennae have long ferrocana. 
pectinations. Forewings white with the exception of the costal area, which is dusted with reddish. Transverse 
lines black, distally of the postmedian a reddish diffuse double line. The reniform has a red centre and a black 
surround. Subterminal is a dentate, diffuse reddish shade. Hindwings transparent white, veins and margin 
brownish. Wing expanse: 26 to 30 mm. Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti. 
C. nigropuncta Drc. (56 d). The <J has on the underside of forewings a flocculent tuft of hairs below nigropunda. 
base of cell. In the anal area of the enormously enwidened hindwings with their truncate apex, there is an ex¬ 
tensive vestiture of felty hairs behind the cell in apical area. Forewings whitish, sparsely peppered with black, 
with delicate black transverse lines and reddish brown diffuse lines in basal area and behind the postmedian. 
Reniform stigma is a reddish dot in a finely drawn black encirclement. Hindwings transparent white, faintly 
brownish at outer and inner margins, the hairy vestiture bt'ing black. The $ is somewhat darker. Distributed 
from Costa Rica to Brazil. 
C. melamographa Hmps. is much smaller and darker than the preceding species and has no brush of mclanogra- 
hairs on underside of forewings. On hindwings the vestiture of hairs is arranged in 3 longitudinal stripes and 
the anal angle is rounded; in nigropuncta it is lobiform. Forewings brownish white, dusted with brownish red 
except in apical costal half. Otherwise markings are similar to those of the preceding species, but close behind 
the antemedian there is another irregularly dentate median black line. There are 2 black annulate marks behind 
the large round stigma that has a black centre. The stripes of felt-like hairs are ochreous yellowish on the 
transparent white hindwings. Wing expanse: 32 mm. British Guiana. 
C. amplipennis Hmps. In this and the following species, the felt-like vestiture of hairs is absent on amplipen- 
the wings. Fore wings white, peppered with brown and with a reddish brown tone in basal and marginal areas. 
The black antemedian line is very boldly dentate outwards in the cell. Reniform stigma round and with reddish 
core. Median and postmedian lines similarly black and dentate. Subterminal reddish and indistinct. Hind¬ 
wings with somewhat lobiform anal angle, transparent white with costa and margin brownish, duskier in $. 
Wing expanse: 36—38 mm. Brazil (San Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). 
C. emittens Wkr. This is the genotype, of which the original specimen is unfortunately no longer in emittens. 
existence and the description is scant. $ very pale reddish brown, thorax brownish anteriorly. Forewings 
sparsely peppered with black, with an indistinct greenish tone and with black costal streaks. Transverse lines 
almost extinct with the exception of the one behind the reniform stigma, which is brown, straight and not oblique. 
It is accompanied on its inner side by a black line, that emits a black streak to the outer margin ; this streak 
conjoins with a greenish band, that arises from a large grey-black costal spot. Distally of this 2 black dots and 
a black streak, that conjoins with the third of the black and white sub marginal dots. Orbicular and reniform 
stigmata and a spot behind the latter circumscribed by white. The orbicular stigma is vertical and not slanting. 
Hindwings iridescent whitish, semi-transparent with wide brownish margin. Length of body 16 lines. Wing 
expanse: 22 lines. Jamaica; in the collection of Saitndees. 
€. olivaris Hmps. (Dyar ined.) (56 e). Forewings yellowish green, basal and marginal areas somewhat olivaris. 
peppered with brownish. The fine black transverse lines dentate. A row of black cuneiform spots before the 
subterminal line. The whitish hindwings tinged with brownish. Veins and marginal area dusky. Mexico. 
C. chlorotica Schs. Very similar, but larger than the preceding species and with a further row of small chlorotica. 
black dots behind the subterminal line. Forewings are inclined to be more reddish brown sparsely peppered 
with black on the olive-green ground. A reddish band behind the postmedian. Hindwings brownish white, 
duskier on veins and at margin. Costa Rica and Colombia. 
C. phoenicias Hmps. Body and forewings dark red-brown, the latter suffused with violaceous grey, phoenicias. 
admixed with grey behind the cell. Transverse lines black, the anterior one interrupted, the posterior line with 
whitish outer edge. The round stigma has a white centre and black surround, a black streak anteriorly on discal 
fold. The grey subterminal line is double below the discal fold. Hindwings whitish, brownish at margin. Apex 
white. Wing expanse: 38 mm. Panama (Lino). 
C. purpurascens Schs. (56 e). Body brown, admixed with grey. Forewings reddish yellow, suffused purpuras- 
with dark violaceous reddish brown with the exception of the basal area and the inner post-median half that 
retain the paler colour. The dark transverse lines are lined with ochreous, the double postmedian is similarly 
intertilled. Stigma reddish yellow with dark brown core and surround. Sub terminal line ochreous yellowish, 
with black streaks subapically. Hindwings dark brown with white tips to the fringes. Costa Rica. 
C, abseuzalis Wkr. (= nigrogutt-ata Grt., smithii Mschlr., tumidicosta Hmps.) (56 e). Body and fore- abseuzalis. 
wings white with pale reddish brown tinge, somewhat more yellowish on forewings. The blackish transverse 
lines are simple, dentate, extending obliquely. A small black spot with white core at end of cell. A row of small 
black dots subterminally, the submedian one being heavier. Hindwings transparent white, ends of veins and 
margin black-brown. From Florida and Brazil (Bahia, Rio de Janeiro). Also occurring on the Bahama Islands, 
Cuba, Porto Rico and Grenada. 
