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subbasal line slight, blackish, maculate, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 tlie antemedial area with a blackisli shade ; antemedial line black, 

 inwardly oblique, minutely waved ; a double diffused sinuous black 

 medial line tilled in with blackish ; reniform white slightly defined 

 bv dark brown and slightly irroi'ated with brown, a white bar 

 above it from costa and white streak from its upper extremity to 

 the postmedial line ; a dark postmedial spot defined by white 

 suffusion on costa, the slight black minutely waved postmedial line 

 arising from below it, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, 

 then erect ; subterminal line blackish, sinuous, angled outwards 

 below veins 7 and 4, then incurved ; a series of black strite before 

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

 base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown ; traces of a sinuous double 

 dark medial line ; postmedial line slight, dark, faintly defined on 

 outer side by grey, minutely waved ; a faint dark subterminal 

 shade with bkckish striga at tornus ; a series of blackish striga 

 before termen and faint waved dark terminal line ; the underside 

 grey-brown irrorated with whitish, diffused dark medial and post- 

 melial line> and a faint subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. distiUa. Blacker brown. — Mexico, Guatemala. 



Hab. U.S.A., Georgia, Florida (Do/ibledai/), 2 J, 2 $ type 

 infer/errinirr, Texas {Bplfrarje), 1 c? , 2 5 type sfylohata, 

 Colorado; Mexico, Jalapa {TrnjiUo), 2 $; Guatemala 

 {Sadler), I $ , Guatemala City {Rodriguez), 1 5 , Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exj). 44-o6 millim. 



7979. Safia mollis. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 15). 



Yrias mollis, IVioscbl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 407, pi. viii. f. 3 

 (1880\ 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white, the meta- 

 thoracic crest pale golden yellow above ; palpi blackish with some 

 white at base and extremity of 3rd joint ; pectus and legs black- 

 brown, the tarsi black ringed with white ; al)domen l)lackish 

 irrorated witli grey, the 2nd segment with whitish dorsal band, the 

 3rd with minute white spot, the ventral surface greyer. Tore wing 

 pale brownish grey irrorated with black, the costal area with 

 alternating black and white marks to the postmedial line ; a 

 minute white spot at base ; subl)asal line black, waved, from costa 

 to vein 1, followed by a black shade ; antemedial line black, waved, 

 double below the cell ; a double waved black medial line ; a minute 

 black spot in middle of cell ; reniform black, its annulus represented 

 by minute white spots and a larger spot at n)iddle of outer edge; 

 postmedial line black, arising from a triangidar spot on costa, 

 waved to vein 3 where it is angled inwards to lower angle of cell, 

 then excurved and dentate, an ol)lique bar beyond it from costa and 

 a diffused waved black line from vein 7 to inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line double, black, waved, the oiiter line less distinct, 

 somewhat angled outwards below veins 7 and 4 ; a series of minute 



