RAJrPlITA. SAFriJIA. 1G3 



Ab. 3. transacta $ . Wings with the medial white hand and 

 spots ahsent, the suhapical white patch obsolescent on foro wing, 

 absent on hind wing. 



Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Salle), 1 2 > Yucatan {Becker), 1 6 

 type lasiciiicfa, Temax {Gaumer), 2 S ; GtUatesiala, Pantaleon 

 (champion), 1 c^ , 11. Naranjo {Champion), 1 $; Nicaragua, 

 Chontales {Belt), I $ ; Costa Rica, Sta. Clara Valley {Ziircher), 

 2 S ; Panama, Cliiriqui {Bibhe), 1 J , 2 ? , Godman-Salvin Coll., 

 Cana Mines {Tijlecote), 1 $ ; W. Coast of Centr. Am. {Kellet Sf 

 Wood), 1 $ type transacta ; Trikidad, Caparo {Kaije), 3 <S , 

 1 5 ; Venezuela, 1 $ ; Brazil, Amazons, Pav/i {Bates), 3 $ , 

 Theresopolis {MichaeVis), 1 6 ; Paraouay, Sta. Cniz {Moor), 1 $ . 

 j;.r2>. 6S-94. millim. 



Genus SAFIDIA, nov. 



Type, S. asteca. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of bead and moderately scaled, llie 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes large, 

 round; antennae of male laniiuate and with fasciculate oilia and bristles; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 large spreading crests; tibi:r slightly fringed with hair; all the tibite spined ; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of large crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and strongly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell; (> from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell aljout half the length of 

 wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



7951, Safidia azteca. 



Hadrmcia azteca, Schaus, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 231 (1894) ; Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am. ii. p. 514, pi. 97. ff. 2, 3. 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ; palpi 

 dark brown towards base ; logs irrorated with dark brown, the 

 tarsi black-brown with pale rings ; abdomen whitish suffused with 

 red-brown, the crests darker. Pore wing red-brown iiTorated and 

 in parts suffused with dark brown, the medial area white irrorated 

 with brown except on coital area ; svibbasal line blackish defined 

 on inner side by white suffusion, sinuous, from costa to vein 1, the 

 terminal area tinged with purple ; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 double, dark filled in wdth white, angled outwards below costa and 

 oblique below vein 1 ; faint traces of two sinuoug brown medial 

 lines ; orbicular a minute white spot incompletely defined by black ; 

 reniform an oblique white bar with some brown on it below and 

 defined at sides by blackish, connected with the oosta by a white 

 bar with dark striga on it ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, 

 dark filled in with whitish, arising below costa, excurved belov/ 

 vein 7, angled outwards at veins 4<, 3, then bent inwards to below 

 end of cell and erect and sinuous to inner margin, a diffused black 

 line defined on outer side by some blue-green scales beyond it and 

 some minute white points on costa ; subterminal line dark brown 

 sliffhtlv defined on inner side by blue-green scales and son\e white 



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