SAPIA. 169 



black, minutely waved ; subterminal line black, obsolescent towards 

 costa, angled outwards at discal fold, then sinuous ; a series of 

 slight dentate dark marks before termen ; a slight waved dark 

 terminal line ; the underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales. 



Hah. Mexico Jalisco (^Schumann), 1 S type, Godman-Salvin 

 ColL Ex2). 52millim. 



7957. Safia demera. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 16.) 

 Placonia demera, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 45 (1901). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 blackish ; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen dark brown, the crests with some red-brown, the second 

 segment with whitish dorsal band. Fore wing whitish suffused 

 and irrorated with red- brown, the basal area suffused with black- 

 brown ; a faint sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line black faintly defined on inner side 

 by Avhitish, waved, inwardly oblique below submedian fold ; medial 

 line double, blackish, rather diffused, excurved at median nervure, 

 then incurved, a black spot on the inner line in the cell ; renif orm 

 defined at sides by whitish bars, its outer edge connected by a 

 whitish bar with the costa, some blackish beyond it and beyond 

 the whitish bar on costal area ; postmedial line slight, blackish, 

 faintly defined on outer side by whitish towards costa, waved, at 

 vein 4 retracted to lower angle of cell, then erect and slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish ; subterminal line blackish with 

 blackish suffusion before it from costa to discal fold, oblique from 

 below vein 7 to discal fold, forming a dentate mark below vein 4, 

 oblique to vein 2 and slightly angled outwards below vein 3, then 

 somewhat oblique and diffused on inner side to inner margin near 

 tornus ; a series of black striae before termen connected by streaks 

 with the termen. Hind wing red-brown ; faint traces of a double 

 medial line ; postmedial line slight, blackish, minutely dentate ; 

 subterminal line blackish faintly defined on outer side by grey, 

 slightly sinuous, some grey suffusion beyond it at middle ; a series 

 of black strige before termen faintly defined on inner side by whitish ; 

 a waved blackish terminal line ; the underside clothed with leaden 

 fuscous scales and with traces of curved medial and postmedial lines. 



Hah. Panama ; Tktkidad, Caparo, 1 S . Exp. 46 milliin. 



7958. Safia subrosea. 



Homoptera subrosea, "V\'lk. xiii. lUTO (1857) ; Druce, Biol. Ceotr.-Am., 

 Het. i. p. 345. 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish ; palj)i, 

 pectus, and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 dark brown with a paler dorsal band on 2nd segment. Fore wing 

 grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line slight, 

 curved, minutely waved, from costa to vein 1, a small blackish spot 

 above inner margin ; a triangular dark brown shade on inner medial 



