SAFIA. 195 



with a leaden gi'ev pateli beyond it with some whitish suffusion 

 on it ; a series of minute black lunules dePmed on inner side by 

 whitish before termen ; a fine waved black terminal line and pale- 

 line at base of cilia ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated Avith 

 brown, a dark discoidal lunule, two miniitely waved medial lines 

 excurved beyond the cell, postmedial line exc\;rved and minutely 

 waved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique, a dark subterminal 

 shade, and series of minute whitish lunules before termen. 



J . Fore winp^ with the whitisli points before the subterminal 

 points not so distinct. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing without whitish on the leaden grey patch 

 beyond the subterminal line. 



Hah. Costa Kica, Stii. Clara Valley (Ziircher), 1 5 > Esperanza, 

 (Schaiis), type f J in U.S. Nat. Mus., Guapiles (ScJiat/s), type f 2 ; 

 Paxama, Chiriqui {Champion), 1 5 > Crodman-Salviu Coll. J^xj). 

 42 millim. 



7987. Safia barata. (Plate CCXXYIII. fig. 3.) 



Yrias harata, Sehaus, A. M. N. II. (7) viii. p. 48 (1901). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous mixed with dark 

 brown ; palpi rather darker with ochreous rings at extremities of 

 the joints ; tarsi black-brown ringed with ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown ; a slight 

 irregularly waved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line slight, black, excurved below costa, angled outwards at 

 median nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous ; an 

 indistinct curved, waved medial line ; reniform ochreous with 

 whitish points on its edges, slightly defined at sides by blackish, 

 rather triangular ; jDostmedial line black with ochreous suffusion 

 before it towards costa and an oblique ochreous shade bej^ond it 

 from costa to vein 7 where it is angled outwards, excurved at veins 

 5, 4, at vein 3 bent inwards to below lower edge of reniform, then 

 dentate to inner margin ; a faint waved dark subterminal line ; a 

 series of blackish stride before termen defined on inner side by 

 ochreovis ; a waved blackish terminal line and fine ochreous line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous suffused Avith fuscoixs brown ; 

 traces of a waved medial line ; a slight waved l)lackish postmedial 

 line almost obsolete on costal area and with the more distinct 

 black postmedial line just beyond it, angled outwards at discal 

 fold, then incurved and slightly waved to tornus ; a series of 

 blackish striae defined on inner side by ochi'eous before tei'men and 

 a waved black terminal line ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule, medial line excurved below 

 costa, diffused jwstmedial line, and subterminal shade. 



Hab. Panama, La Chorrera {DoJhy-Ti/Ier), 2 $; Thixidad, 

 Caparo, 2 $ ; Venezuela, Aroa, 1 5 ; Br. Guiana, Demerara 

 (Hodivai/), 1 2 • ^'^y- ^i-1 millim. Type f $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



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