10!- xoctuid.t:. 



postinedial line black, arising at vein 7 where it is hent outwards, 

 then sinuous, ol)li(iue to vein 8, then bent inwards to lower angle of 

 cell, and erect to inner margin, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line faint, dark, oblique, minutely dentate, a 

 diffused whitish line beyond it between veins 6 and 2 ; a series of 

 black striaj defined on inner side by whitish before ternien and a 

 fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing pale red-brown suffused 

 and irroi-ated with dark brown ; traces of a double sinuous medial 

 Ime ; postmedial line faint, dark, sinuous, angled inwards beyond 

 lower angle of cell ; subterminal line blackish, waved, arising at 

 vein 6 and slightly angled outwards at discal fold, a diffused 

 whitish line beyond it ; a series of blackish strife before termen 

 defined on inner side by whitish ; a slight waved blackish terminal 

 line ; the underside w^hitish iirorated with brown, the terminal area 

 black-brown, a dark discoidal lunule, waved medial line excurved 

 beyond the cell, postmedial line excurved and Avaved from below 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique, a series of minute whitish lunules 

 before termen, and some whitish at middle of tennen. 



5 . Fore wing without the pale line beyond the subtemiinal 

 line. 



Iloh. Surinam; Brazil, Amazons, Manaos {Trail), 1 6, 

 K. Pums, Yistiilinda (Trail), 1 ? . ^.i^^. 6 38, $ 44 millim. 



7986. Safia abscisa. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Sofia ahscim, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 54 (191 1). 

 JJomop/cra dcccssa, Druce, Biol. Ceiitr.-Aiii., Het. ii. p. 507 (part.), nee 

 Wlk. 



.9 . Head rufous with some blackish scales betAveen antenna" ; 

 thorax dark reddish brown ; palpi Idackish irrorated with grey ; 

 pectus and legs grey mixed with dark brown, the tarsi black ringed 

 with whitish; abdomen dark l)i'own, the ventral surface whitish 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing black-brown with a })urplish grey 

 gloss and mixed with some red-brown ; subbasal line slight, black, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 waved, excurved below the cell ; two indistinct sinuous dark 

 medial lines ; reniform pale reddish brown defined by pale points ; 

 a dark patch defined by pale reddish brown on jjostmedial part of 

 costa ; jjostmedial line black, arising at vein 7, sinuous, oblique to 

 vein 3, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and erect to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line black, oblique, sinuous, angled 

 outwards below veins 7 and 4 ; a series of black strise 

 defined on inner side by whitish before termen ; a slight waved 

 black terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 red-brown suffused with dark brown ; traces of two sinuous medial 

 lines ; postmedial line slight, black, minutely waved ; subterminal 

 line black, minutely waved, arising at vein 6, slightly angled 

 outwards at discal fold, then incurved to submedian fold and 



