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costa, a wedge-shaped deep red-brown patch beyond it ; postmedial 

 Ime whitish incompletely defined on outer side by dark brown, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved and 

 closely approximated to the reniform, oblique below vein 4 ; two 

 oblique white streaks defined above by blackish especially towards 

 extremities below postmedial part of costa which is whitish with 

 slight blackish points ; an oblique whitish streak from vein 7 below 

 apex to the postmedial line at vein 4 ; a dark line before termen, 

 arising at vein 7, slight and waved to vein 3, then oblique and 

 ending just above vein 1 ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish at base, red-brown at tips. Hind wing ochreous white 

 tinged with red-brown ; a large faint brownish discoidal annulus 

 with traces of two sinuous lines from it to inner margin ; an 

 indistinct double sinuous brown postmedial line, angled inwards 

 beyond lower angle of cell and outwards at vein 2 ; an indistinct 

 minutely waved brown siibterminal line with a patch of dark 

 suffusion before it at vein 2 ; the terminal part of vein 1 defined 

 by a dentate dark mark ; a strong blackish line before termen, 

 slightly sinuous to discal fold and ending at submedian fold ; a 

 fine dark terminal line ; underside of both wings white striated 

 with brown except on inner area of fore wing on which all the 

 markings are obsolete ; fore wing with black point in middle of 

 cell, reniform finely defined by black and constricted at middle, 

 postmedial line strong black and incurved to vein 5, then waved, 

 two oblique dentate blackish marks below postmedial part of costa 

 followed by a double waved brown line, apical area creamy white, 

 the medial part of terminal area suffused with red-brown, the dark 

 line before termen as above ; hind wing with the terminal area 

 suffused with red-brown to submedian fold, the discoidal bar 

 defined by black at sides, the postmedial line black sinuous in- 

 curved below vein 3 and ending at submedian fold, traces of a 

 waved subterminal line and of a series of points and strite before 

 termen. 



Hah. Venezuela, 1 6 type ; Brazil, at sea 1500 miles north 

 of Kio Janeiro {W. Broivne), 1 $ . JExi^. 52 millim. 



7949. Cymosafia laba. 



Focilla laba, Driice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 392, pi. 33. f. 3 (1890). 



Head and thorax ochreous whitish suffused with red-brown ; 

 palpi with red-brown bands at middle and extremity of 2nd joint 

 and the 3rd joint red-brown ; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral 

 sui-face ochreous suffused with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous 

 suffused with red-brown and with some dark irroration ; a curved 

 ochreous subbasal striga from costa defined on inner side by red- 

 brown ; antemedial line ochreous defined on outer side by dark 

 brown, waved, angled outwards below costa and inwards at vein 1 ; 

 three oblique ochreous striae from medial part of costa and traces 

 of two sinuoiis brown medial lines ; reniform with its centre defined 



