JS2 NOCTlID.r. 



aiitemedial line indistinctly double, Idackish filled in with white, 

 sinuous to median nerviu-e where it is bent outwards, then obli<jue ; 

 traces of a double waved medial line filled in with brownish Kufiiusion ; 

 orbicular a faint minute blackish annulus ; renifonii faintly defined 

 at sides by brown and with some ochreous beyond it ; a dark jwtch 

 defined by white on postmedial part of costa; postmedial line 

 slight, blackish, defined on outer side by white at costa, minutely 

 waved and oblicjue to vein 3, then retracted to lower angle of cell, 

 then erect and minutely waved ; subtenninal line black, arising at 

 vein 7, forming slight rather dentate marks in the interspaces to 

 vein 3, then somwhat incui'ved ; a series of black striae before termen, 

 defined on inner side by whitish above and below vein 5 and below 

 vein 2 ; a slight waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at base of 

 cilia which are whitish at vein 5. Hind wing white tinged with brown 

 and with some dark irroration, the terminal area suffused with bi-own ; 

 tnices of two sinuous dai"k medial lines and of a sinuovis dark 

 postmedial line ; subterminal line shght, blackish, minutely waved, 

 a brown slrnde before it ; a series of l)lack stria? and points before 

 termen defined on inner side by whitish above and below vein 5 

 and towards tornus, a slight waved dark terminal line ; cilia whitish 

 at vein 5 ; the underside whitish tinged with pale red-brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, subterminal shade, and series 

 of striie before tennen. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Sixola R. (ScJiaiis), 1 c? . ^xj). 50millim. 



7970. Safia leucopis, n. sp. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 8.) 



5 . Head and thoi-ax pale red-brown mixed with some grey- 

 white ; palpi dark brown with some white at the extremities of 

 the joints ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale red-brown 

 tinged with grey, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing 

 greyish tinged with pale red-brown and with slight dark irroration, 

 the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line slight, blackish, 

 oblique, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black wdth 

 a small dark mark before it on costa defined on inner side by a 

 whitish striga, slightly sinuous to median nervure, then inwai'dly 

 ol)lique, a paler band beyond it followed by two sinuous dark 

 medial lines; reniform white irrorated with brown; a dark })atch 

 on postmedial part of costa broadly defined by whitish confiuent 

 Avith the reniform ; postmedial line black, arising from the dark 

 patch, oblique to below vein 7, then oblique and sinuous to vein 3 

 where it is retracted to lower angle of cell, then erect and 

 dentate; subterminal line brown slightly defined on each side by 

 whitish, oblique, slightly dentate ; a series of black striae before 

 termen defined on inner side by whitish ; a fine waved black 

 terminal line and pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with pale red-brown and with slight dark irroration ; 

 a white ])oint at lower angle of cell ; two indistinct waved dark 

 medial lines; postmedial line slight, indistinct and o])lique below 



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