172 NOCTUID^. 



on inner side by black-brown suffusion from costa to discal fold and 

 from vein 2 to inner margin and by a small black spot below vein 

 4, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4, incurved at discal fold and 

 strongly below vein 3, a diffused waved red-brown shade beyond 

 it ; a series of minute black lunules connected by short streaks 

 with the fine waved dark line just before termen ; cilia red-brown 

 mixed with whitish. Hind wing ockreous white suffused with red- 

 brown except on terminal area and at inner margin ; a double oblique 

 slightly sinuous dark brown medial line ; an indistinct minutely 

 waved dark postmedial line ; subterminal line blackish, slightly 

 waved, somewhat angled outwards at discal fold, and ending at 

 tornus ; the terminal area slightly tinged in parts with red-brown ; 

 a fine interrupted minutely dentate blackish line before termen ; a 

 fine waved dark line just before termen ; cilia red-brown mixed 

 with whitish. Underside of both wings ochreous white suffused 

 with red-brown except at termen ; fore wing with some dark 

 marks on costa and series of lunules before termen ; hind wing 

 with discoidal lunule fiUed in with whitish, diffused sinuous medial 

 and postmedial lines, diffused subterminal shade, and series of dark 

 lunules before termen. 



Hah. Beazil, Rio Janeiro, type f $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 50 

 miliim. 



B. Hind tarsi of male not fringed with hair above. 



a. Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly waved 



throughout plicBocliroa. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line minutely waved, 



oblique below the cell. 



ai. Hind wing with the subterminal line black coenochroa. 



bK Hind wing with the subterminal line red-brown brimca. 



7961. Safia phaeochroa, n. sp. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 19.) 



S . Head and thorax black-brown with a slight reddish tinge ; 

 palpi, pectus, and legs black-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen black-brown with a greyish tinge. Fore wing red-brown 

 almost wholly suffused with black-brown ; subbasal line black 

 faintly defined on outer side by reddish, sinuous, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black faintly defined on each side 

 by reddish, waved ; a double waved black medial line ; reniform 

 reddish faintly defined by black and its centre defined by blackish, 

 a reddish spot above it on costa ; postmedial line black, waved, at 

 vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then somewhat oblique ; 

 subterminal line blackish, sinuoiis, angled outwards below vein 7 

 where there is a black mark on its inner side, incTirved below vein 3 

 and ending at tornus ; a series of blackish striae before termen. 

 Hind wing red-brown almost wholly suffused with black-brown ; 

 traces of a double sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, black, excurved between veins 5 and 3, then rather 

 oblique and with small black spots on it ; subterminal line black, 



