20G xocTriD-T. 



8002. Safia nyctichroa, n. sp. (Plato CCXXVIII. fig. IG.) 



Homaptcra decessa, Driice, Biul. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 345 (part), nee Wlk. 



$ . Head, thorax, and alxlomen red-brown mixed with some grey, 

 tlie vertex of head whitish ; ])al])i, pectus, legs, and venti-al sm-faee 

 of abdomen gre}' mixed witli (hirk brown, the tjirsi l)lackish ringed 

 with wliite. Fore wing red-brown tinged with dark brown and 

 shglitly irronited with blackish ; subbasal line black defined on outer 

 side by grey, curved from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 black, waved ; two waved black medial lines ; reniform defined on 

 inner side by black, a small white spot on its outer edge, a white 

 point at u])per extremity' and two at lower extremity ; a dark patch 

 on postmedial part of costa defined by whitish tinged with red-brown ; 

 postmedial line black, arising at vein 7, oblicpie, sinuous, incurved 

 between vein 3 and submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line black, oblique, slightly waved ; a series 

 of black striae before termen connected by short streaks with the 

 waved black terminal line. Hind wing red-brown suffused with dark 

 brown ; a double sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line double, 

 blackish, minutely waved ; subterminal line black, slightly angled 

 outwards at discal fold, a slight pale line beyond it from vein 4 to 

 tornus ; a series of minute black spots before termen and a fine 

 waved black terminal line ; the underside whitish thickly iiTorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal lunule, minutely waved medial line 

 excurved beyond the cell, minutely waved jiostmedial line ending at 

 tornus, and broad dark subterminal shade with series of dark points 

 beyond it. 



Hah. P.vx.vMA, Chiri(|ui (Clianqf/'o/i), 1 $ type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. JiJj'j). 44 millim. 



*8003. Safia noctar. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Yrias noctar, Schaus, A. M. N. II. (7) viii. p. 4'J (1901.) 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown with some grey 

 mixed ; fore and mid tibi;e and the tarsi black-brown ringed with 

 white. Fore wing fuscous brown iiTorated with grey; two whitish 

 subbasal points on costa ; antemedial line with two whitish points 

 on costa, then very indistinct, double, dark, waved, excurved ; a 

 small whitish spot at upper angle of cell and more ])rominent spot 

 at lower angle ; postmedial line with double whitish striie from costa, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then represented by a series of 

 white ])oints on the veins, incurved ludow vein 4, some small whitish 

 spots l)eyond it on costa ; sul)terminal line represented by a series of 

 slight ochreous white spots, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of white and Iilack points ; cilia with fine 

 whitish lines at base and middle. Hind wing fuscous ])rown slightly 

 iiToratcd Avith grey ; traces of a double dark medial line ; traces of a 

 minutely dentate dark postmedial line from vein 6 to inner margin 

 with white ])oints at the veins ; traces of a waved subterminal line 

 with whitish marks on it below vein 5 and at submedian fold ; 



