SAFIA. 169 



Llaek, niiiiutc'ly waved ; subturiuiiuil line blaek, obsolescent towards 

 costa, angled outwards at discal fold, then sinuous ; a series of 

 slight dentate dark marks before termen ; a slight waved dark 

 terminal line ; the underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales. 



Hah. Mexico Jalisco {Schumann), 1 6 type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 52mimm. 



7957. Safia demera. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 16.) 



Placoiiia demera, Sehaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 45 (1901). 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 blackish ; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen dark brown, the crests with some red-brown, the second 

 segment with whitisli dorsal band. Fore wing w^hitish suffused 

 and irro rated with red-brown, the basal area suffused with black- 

 brown ; a faint sinvious blackish subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold; antemedial line black faintly defined on inner side 

 by whitish, waved, inwardly oblique below submedian fold ; medial 

 line double, blackish, rather diffused, excm-ved at median nervure, 

 then incurved, a black spot on the inner line in the cell ; reniform 

 defmed at sides by whitish bars, its outer edge connected by a 

 whitisli bar with the costa, some blackish beyond it and beyond 

 the whitish bar on costal area ; postmedial line slight, blackish, 

 faintly defined on outer side by whitish towards costa, waved, at 

 vein 4: retracted to lower angle of cell, then erect and slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish ; subterminal line blackish with 

 blackish suffusion before it from costa to discal fold, oblique from 

 below vein 7 to discal fold, forming a dentate mark below vein 4, 

 oblique to vein 2 and slightly angled outwards below vein 3, then 

 somewhat oblique and diffused on inner side to inner margin near 

 tornus ; a series of black strije before termen connected by streaks 

 with tlie termen. Hind wing red-brown ; faint traces of a double 

 medial line ; postmedial line slight, blackish, minutely dentate ; 

 subterminal line blackish faintly defined on outer side by grey, 

 slightly sinuous, some grey suffusion beyond it at middle ; a series 

 of black strise before termen faintly defined on inner side by whitish ; 

 a waved blackish terminal line ; the underside clothed with leaden 

 fuscous scales and with traces of curved medial and postmedial lines. 



JIab. Panama ; TEI^'1DAD, Caparo, 1 J . jE'.r/;. 46 millim. 



795S. Safia subrosea. 



Homoptera suhrosca, ^Vlk. xiii. 1070 (1857) ; Driice, Biol. Ceutr.-Aui., 

 llet. i. p. 0-15. 



J. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish; palj)i, 

 pectus, and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with Avhite ; abdomen 

 dark brown with a paler dorsal band on 2nd segment. Fore wing 

 .grey suff'used and irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line slight, 

 curved, minutely waved, from costa to vein 1, a small blackish spot 

 above inner margin ; a ti-iangular dark brown shade on inner medial 



