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blackisli. Foiv wing givyish suffiisfd with red-brown and irroratt'd 

 with dark brown, the basal area Buffused with bbick ; subbasal bne 

 blackish, cni-ved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 black, minutely waved, somewhat inwardly oblique ; traces of a 

 doul)le medial line ; reniform faintly detined by diffused dark brown ; 

 a dark brown patch on costa before the postmedial line, which is 

 blackish, minutely waved, at vein 8 retracted to lower angle of 

 c^ll, then excurved ; the area before the sub terminal line suffused 

 with black and with two whitish points on costa ; subterminal 

 line defining the outer edge of the Idaek area, angled outwards 

 below veins 7 and 4, then incmwed and slightly angled outwards 

 below vein 3 ; a series of black sti'iae before termen connected by 

 sti-eaks with the termen ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing red-brown \\ith slight dark irroration ; subterminal line black 

 and Avith a band of black suffusion before it, arising at vein 6, 

 angled outwards at discal fold and sligtitly at vein 5, tlien incurved 

 and excurved below vein 2 ; a series of black stria? before termen ; 

 a slight waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia ; 

 the underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales. 



5 . Fore wing with the black area before the subterminal line 

 running inwards below vein 3 to lower angle of cell ; under- 

 side of hind wing grey suffused with brown ; traces of diffused 

 medial and postmedial lines from costa to lower angle of cell and 

 vein 4 and a difl'used subterminal shade. 



Hah. HoNDiHAis {Di/son), 1 cS type; Tfiiis'iDAD, Caparo, 1 $. 

 £icj). 40 milluu. 



7956. Safia endomelas, n. sp. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 15.) 



Homoptrra ffiiiipliciur, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Hct. i. p. 344 (part.) 

 uec Wlk, 



(5" . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with some 

 blackish and grey ; palpi, pectus, and legs black-brown, the tarsi 

 ringed with white. Foi'e wing greyish suffused with red-broAMi 

 and irroiattd with dai'k brown, the base suffused with black ; a 

 sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line black, ex])anding into a small s])ot at costa, waved, 

 somewhat inwardly ol)li(pie ; a rather ditt'u.sed double sinuous 

 blackish medial line with a black ])atch from submedian fold to 

 inner mai'gin extending fi-om the inner line to near the postmedial 

 line ; reniform faintly delined by blackish, and with some blackish 

 suffusion beyond it ; a blackish patch on costii before the blackish 

 postmedial line, which is waved to vein 3, then retracted to lower 

 angle of cell, then dentate to below vein 2 and sinuous to inner 

 margin, some pale i)oints Ix'yond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 slight, black, oblique, waved, with black suffusion before it from 

 costii to discal fold; a series of small dentate black spots before 

 termen ; a slight waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown irronited with dark brown ; 

 traces of a double >inuous dark medial line ; i)ostmedial line slight, 



