. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. CASANDRIA. 351 Sect. T. Antennre of male bi)3ectiiiatti witli long branclios, the apex ciliated, a large tiilt of hair from basal juiiit. 6GG1. Casandria ferrocana. Laphygma ferrocava, Wlk. xi. 720 (1857). Laphi/gma nii/riscripfa, Wlk. xxxii. 649 (1865). Head, thorax, and abdomen Avhite mixed with some pinkisli ; palpi with some black and pink scales at side of 2iid joint; teguliB Avith dark medial line ; abdomen with lateral series of black points, siiblateral bars at base and three ventral streaks. Fore wing white
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. CASANDRIA. 351 Sect. T. Antennre of male bi)3ectiiiatti witli long branclios, the apex ciliated, a large tiilt of hair from basal juiiit. 6GG1. Casandria ferrocana. Laphygma ferrocava, Wlk. xi. 720 (1857). Laphi/gma nii/riscripfa, Wlk. xxxii. 649 (1865). Head, thorax, and abdomen Avhite mixed with some pinkisli ; palpi with some black and pink scales at side of 2iid joint; teguliB Avith dark medial line ; abdomen with lateral series of black points, siiblateral 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 ])inkish marks before it at costa and submedian fold; reniform with ])inkish spot in centre and defined by black, its inner edge produced to a point. Fig. 127.— Casandria ferrocana, cf. \. in discal fold ; a black striga from middle of costa and some points on terminal half; postmedial line black Avith 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 |)iiikish subterminal shade; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing ^emihyaline white tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal area. Hah. Jamaica {Gosse, Kaye), 1 J, 2 $ type. Runaway Bay (Walshu/Jiam), 1 $ ; Cuba, Santiago (SrJiavs), 1 $ ; Haiti {Tweedie), 1 $ type nigriscriida. 26-30 miJlim. Sect. II. Antennte of male ciliatecl, a large tuft of hair from basal joint. A. (Xeosiintopfera). Fore wing of male with tuft of long flocculent hair below the cell on underside; hind wing with the ajiex truncate, a large patch of floccuknt hair on up])erside below costa beyond the cell, the inner area g
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