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oclireous bar from costa, then black, waved, at vein 3 retraettd to 

 lower angle of cell, then again excurved, some whitish jwints 

 beyond it on cost<i ; subteniiinal line blackish, incurved below 

 costa, incurved and sinuous below vein 6, and with a dark shade 

 beyond it below vein 4 ; a series of minute blackish striie faintly 

 defined on inner side bv ochreous before termen, with slight dark 

 streaks from them towards termen. Hind wing red-brown suffused 

 Mith darker brown except on apical area ; a slight sinuous dark 

 jHjstmedial line, obsolescent on costal area ; subterminal line 

 blackish, obsolescent on costal area, somewhat incurved between 

 discal and submedian folds, excurved at vein 1 where there is a 

 j)rominent black spot on it with minute white sti-eak towards its 

 outer edge ; a series of slight brown stria? faintly detined on inner 

 side by ochreous before termen with slight dark sti-eaks from them 

 towards termen ; the underside brown irrorated with white. 



2 . Fore wing suffused with dark brown to the subterminal line, 

 the reniform pure white. 



Kob. Jamaica (Mart in), 1 $ ; Haiti (Tioeedie), 2 d", 

 1 2 fyp^' -E'jy^- -48-02 millim. 



7997. Safia meroleuca, n. sp. (Plate CCXXVIIT. fig. 12.) 



2 • Head and thorax white mixed with some reddish brown ; 

 antenna" brown ; palpi blackish irrorated with white ; sides of fi'ons 

 blackish; pectus and legs white mixed with brown, the tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the base -white. 

 Fore wing white slightly irrorated Avith brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with pale brown from costa at subterminal line to middle 

 of inner margin ; the basal part of costa blackish brown inteiTupted 

 bv white marks at the lines ; subbasal line slight, black, angled 

 outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, dark, excm-ved below the cell, then sinuous ; 

 a triangular black-brown patch at middle of costa, the indistinctly 

 double dark medial line arising from it, oblique and slightly 

 sinuous below the cell ; reniform with very indistinct white 

 annulus ; a triangular black-brown postmedial patch on costa, the 

 slight blackish postmedial line arising from it, excurved below 

 vein 7 and between veins 5 and 3, then oblique and somewhat 

 dentate, a greyish fuscous shade beyond it from vein 7 to inner 

 margin ; the costa towards apex with alternating black and white 

 streaks ; subterminal line vciy indistiiK-t. dark defined on outer 

 side by white, waved, angled outwards below vein i ; a series of 

 blackish stria? defined on inner side by white before tennen ; a 

 slight waved dark terminal line; cilia white at veins 5 and 2. 

 Hind wing white suffused with jwle reddish brown excei)t at base ; 

 an indistinct double dark medial line; jiostmedial line slight, 

 bi-own, sinuous and minutely waved ; subterminal line blackish, 

 siiuious and minutely waved, a greyi.4i fuscous shade before it ; a 

 series of blackish stri;e before termen defined on inner side by 



