190 NOCTUID.T.. 



black lunules before tenneii conneeteil by short streaks with a 

 waved blaek tenuiiKil line with whitish points at the interspaces. 

 Hind wing pale grey irrorated with black, the costal area, cell, 

 subuiedian fold, and inner margin suffused with brown ; a whitj 

 ]>oint at hjwer angle of coll ; double waved black medial and 

 postmedial lines; subterminal line double, black, the inner line 

 crenulate, the outer less distinct and sinuous; a series of minute 

 black lunules before tennen connected by short streaks with the 

 waved black terniinal line ; the underside blue-grey suifused with 

 fuscous, a discoidal lunule defined by blackish, medial line excurved 

 beyond the cell, curved postmedial line, and subterminal shade. 



Hub. Surinam; Fr. Gtuiaxa, Cayenne (Schaas), 1 5 ; Peru, 

 Pozuzo, 1 2 . IJxj). 42-40 millim. 



7980. Safia chalybeata, n. sp. (Phte CCXXVII. fig. IG.) 



d . Head, thorax, and al)domen black-l)rown ; palpi irrorated 

 with white ; frons with the lower ])art white and whitj lines at 

 sides ; fore and mid tibiae with the fringes of hair v/hite ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; ventral surface of abdomen ochreous 

 whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing with the basal half blaek- 

 brown with a leaden blue o'loss, the terminal half m-ev-brown tiniJ'ei 

 with fuscous ; a slight sinuous ochreous subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black, waved ; a small blaek spot 

 in middle of cell ; reniform with faint dark outline and white 

 points representing its annuhis ; medial line black, defining the 

 dark area, slightly excurved at vein I ; postmedial line blackish, 

 obliquely downcurved below costa, then minutely waved, at vein 3 

 retracted to lower angle of cell and excurved below submedian fold, 

 a black patch beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black to vein (j, 

 then obsolescent, waved ; the terminal area with a slight leaden 

 blue gloss ; a series of black and white points before termen 

 connected by slight black streaks with the fine waved black 

 terminal line. Hind wing black-brown with a leaden blue gloss, the 

 costal area paler ; an indistinct waved blackish postmedial line ; 

 subterminal line black, almost obsolete towards costa, angled 

 outwards at discal fold, then incurved to submedian fold ; a series 

 of black striie before termen connected by short streaks with the 

 waved black terminal line ; the underside ochreous grey irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal area dark brown, a small discoidal lunule 

 defined by blickish, medial line waved to lower angle of cell, and 

 waved jx) dm 'dial line. 



Jlfth. Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, 1 d typa. JE'.r/?. 

 80 millim. 



7981. Safia minta. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 17.) 



Sajia miuta, Si-bniis, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 40 ( l'.)(,»l). 

 Sajla minor, Si-huus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 54 (I'Jll). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with greyish ; 

 antenna? blackish ; palpi blackish, the 3rd joint wdiitish at base 



