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at costa, oblique towards costa, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then oblique and waved ; a series of black-brown lunules 

 before termen ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 pale red-broAvn, the costal area whitish to beyond middle, the 

 terminal area darker; traces of a dark subterminal line, more 

 distinct at tornus ; a series of dark lunules before termen ; cilia 



Fig. 50. — Safidia azteca, (S , \. 



with a whitish line at base ; the underside white tinged with red- 

 brown and irrorated with dark brown, a discoidal lunule defined at 

 sides by dark brown, postmedial line dark brown, slightly angled 

 outwards at discal fold and ending at submedian fold, a dark 

 subterminal shade and series of small spots before termen. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without white on medial area, the antemedial 

 line dark defined on each side by white, the postmedial line defined 

 on each side by white at costa and on oviter side on inner area, the 

 subterminal line with more green before it. 



$ . Fore wing with the white on medial area replaced by pale 

 brown, the tenninal area pale brown, the area before the sub- 

 terminal line mostly green. 



Ab. 2. Similar to ab. 1, but fore wing tinged with purple and 

 suffused with green scales, the area before the subterminal line 

 pale purple tinged with white and with bright green scales beyond 

 the diffused black line and before the subterminal line. 



Ab. 3. Similar but fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 defined by yellowish white. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), 2 c? , 2 2 ; Costa Etca, 

 Candelaria Mts. {Undenvood), 1 $ , Grodman-Salvin Coll. jEsj>. 

 54-64 millim. 



