168 KOCTriDiE. 



blackish. Fore wing greyish suuused with red-brown and irrorated 

 with dark brown, the basal area suffused with black ; subbasal line 

 blackish, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 black, minutely waved, somewhat inwardly oblique ; traces of a 

 double medial line ; renif orm faintly defined by diffused dark brown ; 

 a dark brown patch on costa before the postmedial line, which is 

 blackish, minutely waved, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of 

 cell, then excurved ; the area before the subterminal line suffused 

 with black and with two whitish points on costa ; subterminal 

 line defining the outer edge of the black area, angled outwards 

 below veins 7 and 4, then incurved and slightly angled outwards 

 below vein 3 ; a series of black striae before termen connected by 

 sti-eaks with the termen ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing red-brown with slight dark irroration ; subterminal line black 

 and with a band of black suffusion before it, arising at vein 6, 

 angled outwards at discal fold and slightly at vein 5, then incurved 

 and excurved below vein 2 ; a series of black sti-ise before termen ; 

 a slight waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia ; 

 the underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales. 



2 . Foi-e wing with the black area before the subterminal line 

 running inwards below vein 3 to lower angle of cell; under- 

 side of hind wing grey suffused with brown ; traces of diffused 

 medial and postmedial lines from costa to lower angle of cell and 

 vein 4 and a diffused subterminal shade. 



Hcib. Honduras {Dyson), 1 6 type ; Tbikidad, Caparo, 1 $ . 

 JExp. 46 millim. 



7956. Safia endomelas, n. sp. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 15.) 



Homoptera simplicior, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.) 

 uec Wlk. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with som.e 

 blackish and grey ; palpi, j)ectus, and legs black-brown, the tarsi 

 ringed with white. Fore wing greyish suffused with red-brown 

 and irrorated with dark brown, the base suffused with black ; a 

 sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line black, exj)anding into a small spot at costa, waved, 

 somewhat inwardly oblique ; a rather difl'used double sin uo vis 

 blackish medial line with a black patch from submedian fold to 

 inner margin extending from the inner line to near the postmedial 

 line ; reniform faintly defined by blackish, and with some blackish 

 suffusion beyond it ; a blackish patch on costa before the blackish 

 postmedial line, which is waved to vein 3, then retracted to lower 

 angle of cell, then dentate to below vein 2 and sinuous to inner 

 margin, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 slight, black, oblique, waved, with black suffusion before it from 

 costa to discal fold ; a series of small dentate black spots before 

 termen ; a slight waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown iri-orated with dark brown ; 

 traces of a double ?inuous dark medial line ; postmedial line slight, 



