. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CASAJfDRIA. 851 Sect. I. Anheiinre of male bipectinato vvitli long branches, th» apex ciliated, a large tult of hail-from basal joint. 6661. Casandria ferrocana. Lccphyama ferrocana, Wlk. xi. 720 (). Laphjjgma nigriscripta, Wlk. x\xii. 649 (1865). Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with some pinkish ; palpi with some black and pink scales at side of 2nd joint; tegiilae with dark medial line; abdomen with lateral series of black points, sublateral bars at base and three ventral streaks. Fore wing white more or less suf
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CASAJfDRIA. 851 Sect. I. Anheiinre of male bipectinato vvitli long branches, th» apex ciliated, a large tult of hail-from basal joint. 6661. Casandria ferrocana. Lccphyama ferrocana, Wlk. xi. 720 (). Laphjjgma nigriscripta, Wlk. x\xii. 649 (1865). Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with some pinkish ; palpi with some black and pink scales at side of 2nd joint; tegiilae with dark medial line; abdomen with lateral series of black points, sublateral bars at base and three ventral streaks. Fore wing white more or less suffused with pinkish except on costal area ; an obliquely curved subbasal black striga from below costa to vein 1, followed by another oblique black striga ; antemedial line black, dentate at discal and submedian folds and vein 1, with slight pinkish marks before it at costa and submedian fold; reniform wit-h ]Mnkisb spot in centre and defined by black, its inner edge produced to a point. Fig. 127.— Casandria ferrocana, c^. i. in discal fold ; a black striga from middle of costa and some points on terminal half; postmedial line black with a diffused pinkish line beyond it, arising below costa, dentate below discal fold and produced inwards to a long tooth in submedian fold, a curved black mark beyond it from costa ; a diffused dentate pinkish subterminal shade; a series of black points just before termen. Hind-wing Kcmihyaline white tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal area. Bah. Jamaica {Gosse, Kaye), 1 J, 2 $ type, Runaway Bay {Walshgham), 1 2 ; Cuba, Santiago (SrJiavs), 1 $ ; Haiti {Tweedie), 1 $ type nigriseripta. Exp. 26-30 miJlim, Sect. II. Antennse of male ciliated, a large tuft of hair from basal joint. A. {Neostictoptera). Fore wing of male with tuft of long flocculent hair below the cell on underside; hind wing viith the apex truncate, a lari)e patch of floccultnt hair on upperside below costa beyond the cell, the inner area greatly dilated and th
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