SAFIA. 165 



Genus SAPIA. 



Type. 



Safia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 20 (1852) cdia. 



Campometra, Guen. Noct, iii. p. 25 (1852) amella. 



Rhubina, Wlk. xv. 1820 (1858) "..'. irresoluta. 



Placo?iia, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 410 



(1880) selene. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uphirned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3fd long; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 

 above ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests, the patagia dilated with scales at extremity; fore cox£e and femora of 

 male fringed with long hair, the fore and mid tibiie moderately fringed with 

 hair, the mid tibiae dilated with a groove containing a tuft of long hair, the 

 hind tibiae fringed with long hair, the foi*e and hind tibiaB not spined; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crests on medial segments large, 

 formed of loose hair, the crest on 3rd segment somewhat divided. Fore wing 

 with the costa arched towards apex wliich is rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and highly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 

 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the ceil near base only. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male on underside clothed with silky androconia. 



A. Hind tarsi of male fringed with hair above. 



a. Hind wing with the discal area tinged with crimson ... rufipicta, 

 h. Hind wing with the discal area not tinged with 

 crimson, 

 a^. Fore wing with the basal area suifused with 

 blackish. 

 a?. Fore wing with the outer edge of reniform not 

 connected with the costa by a whitish bar. 

 a?. Fore wing without black patch on inner medial 

 area, 

 a*. Fore wing with the postmedial area not 

 suffused with black. 

 aP. Fore wing with the basal area tinged with 



blue-grey , pasctiala. 



b^. Fore wing with the basal area not tinged 



with blue-grey obsolefacta. 



b*. Fore wing with the postmedial area suffused 



with black simplicior. 



b^. Fore wing with black patch on inner medial 



area endomelas. 



J2. Fore wing with the outer edge of reniform con- 

 nected with the costa by a whitish bar demera. 



b^. Fore wing with the basal area concolorous. 



a^. Both wings with the terminal area concolorous... subrosea. 



52. Fore wing with the terminal area pale guayaquUnta. 



c^. Eoth wings with the terminal area whitish separabtlis. 



