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then incui'ved and waved ; a series of strong black striae before 

 termen and a fine waved blaclvish line just before termen. Hind 

 wing red-brown irrorated with dark brown ; postmedial line slight, 

 dark, dentate, angled inwards between veins 4 and 3 to near lower 

 angle of cell and obsolete in subinedian interspace and on inner 

 area ; subterminal line blackish, arising at vein G, angled outwards 

 in discal fold, then sinuous ; a line formed of black striae before 

 termen and a fine waved blackish line just before termen ; the 

 underside fuscous grey with indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba {ScJiaus), type f in U.S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Brazil, Amazons {Fearce), 1 6 . Exj). 42 millim. 



7954. Safia obsolefacta. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 12 ,5,13 $ .) 



Campomctra obsolefacta, Scbaus, A. M. N. 11. (8) x. p. 512 (1912), 



6 • Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey, 

 the last with the crests blackish ; antennae blackish ; palpi blackish ; 

 tarsi black ringed with white, the fringe of hair on hind tibiae and 

 tarsi leaden grey. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish brown 

 and in-orated with dark brown, the basal area suffused with 

 blackish ; a faint sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish, sinuous, somewhat 

 inwardly oblique ; traces of two waved medial lines ; a minute 

 blackish spot in middle of cell ; reniform hardly traceable, with 

 faint oblique dark bar on its outer edge above ; postmedial line 

 blackish, rather diffused and faintly defined on outer side by 

 whitish towards costa, waved, oblique to below vein 7, at vein 3 

 retracted to lower angle of cell, then erect and somewhat dentjite ; 

 subterminal line very indistinct, pale, oblique, waved, with diffused 

 blackish spots before it above and below vein 7 and a dentate mark 

 below vein 4 ; a series of black striae before termen ; a slight 

 waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing brown mixed with greyish and with slight dark irroration ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, blackish, waved ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, blackish, slightly angled outwards at discal fold, then 

 somewhat sinuous ; a series of black striae before termen ; a slight 

 waved blackish terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside clothed with leaden fuscovis scales. 



$ . Much dai'ker ; fore wing with the basal, postmedial, and 

 terminal areas largely suffused with dark leaden blue-grey and 

 iiToratcd with some white scales. 



Hah. Costa Kica, Sixola R. (^Schaus), 1 d . Eivj). 42 millim. 



7955. Safia simplicior. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 14.) 



Homopfera simplicior, Wlk. xiii. 1065(1857); Druco, Biol. Oentr.-Am., 

 Ilet. i. p. 314. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some darker brown ; 

 antennae blackish; palpi, pectvis, and legs dark brown mixed with 

 grey, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown the crests 



