RAMPHTA. SAFTDIA. 163 



Ab. 3. transacta g . Wings with the medial white band and 

 spots absent, the subapical white patch obsolescent on fore wino-, 

 absent on hind wing. °' 



Hah. Mexico, Oaxaca (Salle), 1 5 , Yucatan (Becker), 1 c? 

 type hasiciiicta, Temax (Gaumer), 2 6; GtUAtemala, Pantaleon 

 (Champion), 1 6 , 'R. Naranjo (Champion), 1 $; Nicaragua, 

 Chontales (Belt), 1 $ ; Costa Eica, Sta. Clara Valley (Zurcher), 

 2 c? ; Pai^ama, Chiriqui (Bibbe), 1 c? , 2 $ , aodman-Salvin Coll., 

 Cana Mines (Tylecote), 1 5 ; W. Coast of Ceis-tk. Am. (Kellet Sf 

 Wood), 1 $ type transacta; Trinidad, Caparo (Kaye), 3 6, 

 1 $ ; Venezuela, 1 5 ; Brazil, Amazons, Para (Bates), 3 5 , 

 Theresopohs (Michaelis), 1 S ; Paraguay, Sta. Cruz (Moor), 1 9 ' 

 Exp. 68-94 millim. 



Genus SAFIDIA, nov. 



Type, S. azteca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi nptm-ned, the 2iid joint reachiijg to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the Srd long; frons smooth; eyes large, 

 round; antennae of male laminate and with fasciculate cilig, and bristles- 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorajf with 

 large spreading crests; tibial slightly fringed with hair; all the tibite spined ; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of large crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and strongly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half (he length of 

 wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only, 



7951, Safidia azteca. 



Hadrcecia azteoa, Sfhaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 231 (1894) ; Druco, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am. ii. p. 514, pi. 97. ff. 2, 3. 



c? . Head and thorax red-bi'own mixed with some whitish ; palpi 

 dark brown towards base ; legs irrorated with dark brown, the 

 tarsi black-brown with pale rings ; abdomen whitish suffused with 

 red-brown, the crests darker. Pore wing red-brown irromted and 

 in parts suffused with dark brown, the medial area white irrorated 

 with brown except on costal area ; subbasal line blackish defined 

 on inner side by white suffusion, sinuous, from costa to vein 1, the 

 terminal area tinged with purple ; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 double, dark filled in with white, angled outwards below costa and 

 oblique below vein 1 ; faint traces of two sinuoug brown medial 

 lines ; orbicular a miimte white spot incompletely defined by black ; 

 reniform an oblique white bar with some brown on it below and 

 defined at sides by blackish, connected with the costa by a white 

 bar with dark striga on it ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, 

 dark filled in with whitish, arising below costa, excurved below 

 vein 7, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then bent inwards to below 

 end of cell and erect and sinuous to inner margin, a diffused black 

 line defined on outer side by some blue-green scales beyond it and 

 some minute white points on costa ; subterminal line dark brown 

 slightly defined on inner side by blue-green scales and some white 



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