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points ; some marginal whitish shadings. Fore wings below : lower half 

 shaded with fuscous grey ; upper half brownish ; a black spot on disco- 

 cellular ; a finely lunular postmedial line ; a subterminal fuscous shade. 

 Hind wings below yellowish white irrorated with brown ; a dark discal 

 point ; traces of postmedial fine lines ; a subterminal fuscous shade. Ex- 

 panse, 42 mm. 



Habitat : St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana. 



Safia olearos, new species. 



S . Palpi black with a fine lateral white line. Head, collar, and 

 thorax dark purplish brown. Abdomen above fuscous brown. Fore 

 wings dark brown tinged with fuscous purple, except on termen ; lines 

 velvety black, fine ; a faint outcurved subbasal line ; antemedial line out- 

 angled at vein 2 ; a medial line outcurved near end of cell, genimate 

 below cell, the inner line touching the antemedial at vein 2 and on inner 

 margin ; reniform faintly dark outlined with a white point in front and one 

 behind ; postmedial deeply outcurved beyond cell ; a subterminal faint 

 darker shade, outwardly edged with lighter brown, forming distinct black 

 spots between veins 6 and 8 ; a fine marginal wavy line. Hind wings 

 brown ; medial, and double postmedial darker lines, the postmedial 

 minutely dentate ; an outer velvety black line ; a subterminal paler brown 

 line, dark edged, but not distinct ; a marginal wavy black line. Wings 

 below dull dark brown, faintly tinged with olive ; an outer, fine, dark 

 line on hind wings. Expanse, 33 mm. 



Habitat : St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana. 



THE SPECIES OF AFRIDA MOSCHLER 



(Lepidopiera, Lithosiide) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Moschler (Abh. Senck. Ges., xiv, 30, 1 886) describes the genus in 

 the Lithosiidae ; Hampson (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 244, 1 898) places 

 it in the Nolinae, later (Cat. Lep. Phal. Brit. Mus., ii, 348, 1900) in the 

 Lithosiinae. Moschler says vein 7 of hind wing arises from 8 ; Hampson 

 says and figures vein 8 hrom middle of ceil. In all my specimens, vein 8 

 has only a short anastomosis with 7, not over the basal fourth of the cell. 

 I therefore think the genus very doubtfully placed in the Lithosiidae ; I 

 should rather think it a noctuid. However, without any knowledge of the 

 early stages, there is no special object in changing its position at this time. 



