193 >OCTLlDJE. 



*7091. Safia mascara. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Canipometra nwscara, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 42 (1901). 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with fuscous ; abdomen 

 red-brown tinged with grey, the crests on 3rd and 4th segments 

 black ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen oehreous whitish, 

 the tiirsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing red-brown mixed 

 •with oehreous, the basal half suffused with fuscous black ; sub- 

 basal line black, minutely waved, fi'om costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black, slightlv angled outwards below costa, then 

 sinuous ; a double waved medial line ; reniform white iiTorated 

 with brown, its centre defined by blackish, some fuscous sti-eaks 

 beyond it ; postmedial line black, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, then Avaved, at vein 3 bent inwards to lower edge of reni- 

 form, then oblique, some fuscous suffusion beyond it and some 

 Avhite points on costa ; subterminal line Avaved, Avhite at costa, then 

 blackish ; the terminal area fuscous at apex, with fuscous patch at 

 middle and band fi-om vein 3 to tornus ; a series of black stiiie 

 before termen, somewhat lunulate on costal half : a tine waved 

 black terminal line and a waved line at middle of cilia. Hind 

 wing oehreous suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with mfous except at apex which is fuscous ; a slight 

 minutely dentate black postmedial line from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; a minutely wa^-ed red-brown subterminal line from vein (3 

 to tomus with a fuscous band beyond it from vein 4 to tornus and 

 fuscous streaks on veins -1, 3. 2 ; a series of black sh-iae before 

 termen and a tine waved black terminal line ; the underside oehreous 

 white irrorated with brown except on mner area, a bi-owTi discoidal 

 bar on a medial line obsolete towards inner margin, a minutely 

 waved postmedial line, diffused subterminal band, and series of strite 

 before termen. 



Hah. Yexezuela, Aroa, type t $ ii' 1- -S. Xat. ]Mus. Exp. .52 

 millim. 



7992. Safia diodonta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 8.) 



$ . Head and thorax grey mixed Avith bi"own ; tai"si black 

 ringed Avith Avhite ; abdomen grey-brown dorsally suffused Avith 

 fuscous. Fore Aving gre}' suffused Avith broAvn and irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line slight, black, cmwed, from costa to vein 1, a 

 blackish mark below it on inner margin ; antemedial line slight, 

 black, irregularly Avaved ; the inner medial area black-brown ; a 

 small blackish aimulus with Avhite centre in middle of cell ; an 

 indistinct double sinuous blackish medial line ; reniform slightly 

 dcHned on iimer side by blackish and on outer by Avhite and black, 

 connected Avith the costa by a Avhite bar; postmedial line black, 

 bent outAvards beloAv costa, then dentate, at vein 3 retracted to 

 lower angle of cell, and cxcurved below submedian fold, some 



