ISO NOCTUID.K. 



lines; postmerlial line l)lackisli sliirhtly defined on outer side by 

 vvliitish, waved ; subtenuinal line black, strong, angled outwards at 

 discal fold and ending on tennen at vein 1 ; the terminal area with 

 slight reddish streaks on the veins ; a quadrate terminal bla?k spot 

 bc'low vein 7 defined bv ochreous white and with wdiite streak below 

 it, followed by a series of black stria? defined on inner side by 

 whitish before termen ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia with 

 fine white line at base, the tips whitish at diseal fold. Underside 

 of fore wing variegated white and brown, the postmedial area red- 

 brown except on inner area, orbicular with black centre, the renifonu 

 with small black spots above and below connected by a dark striga, 

 a double oblique sinuous medial line, waved jxtstmedial line, oblique 

 to vein 4, then incurved, waved subterminal line, a series of black 

 lunules before termen, oblique towartls apex; hind wing white 

 ii-rorated with brown, the postmedial area suffused with brown to 

 vein 2, a black spot in middle of cell and large discoidal lunule, 

 double waved medial line excurved beyond the cell, waved postmedial 

 line, strong black subterminal shade angled outwards at discal fold, 

 black spot on termen below vein 7, and series of black and wdiite striie 

 bjfore termen. 



Hrib. Bh. Guiaxa, Demerara {Bodway), 1 2 type. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



7967. Safia amazonica. (Plate CCXXYII. fig. 5.) 

 Lac.era amazoniea, Butl. Trans. Eut. Soc. 187S, p. 57. 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown ; antennae fuscous ; pectus and 

 legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi f ilscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen red lish brown with slight pale segmental lines, the ventral 

 surface whitish iiTurated with brown. Fore wing red-brown, the 

 basal area, inner Ivilf of medial area, and costal area to beyond the 

 postmedial line irror.ited with whitish ; subbasal line double, brown 

 filled in with whitish, excurved below costa and ending at median 

 nervm'e ; anteme lial line double, brown, the hnes defined on outer 

 side by whitish, incurved in cell and excurved in submedian inter- 

 space ; a slight dirk double sinuous med-al line excurved in the cell, 

 followed by a single line ; reniform with white annulus, its centre 

 defined by dark brown and with small blackish annuli in upper and 

 lower ]iarts, somewhat constricted at naiddle ; postmedial line 

 blackisli, oblique towards costa, then waved, at vein 8 retracted to 

 lower angle of cell, then oblique and slightly excurved at vein 2, 

 the area between it and the subterminal line j^ale red-brown below 

 vein 2 ; subterminal line indistinctly doulile, dark brown, angled 

 inwards at vein 7, then oblitjue to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, 

 then bent outwards to tornus ; a series of dark striie before termen 

 and a fine ])ale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown ; an 

 obscure l)r.)wn discoidal lunule; an indistinct double waved medial 

 line filled in with whitish, arising at vein 6, incurved to lowerangle 

 of Cell, then rejiresented by whitish and dark striie on vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line double, dark brown tilled in with whitish, waved, 



