sAriA. 173 



obsolescent towards costa, then sinuous ; a series of black striae 

 before termen ; the underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, Pani {Trumhill), 1 d type. Uxp. 

 44 millim. 



7962. Safia ccenochroa, n. sp. (Plate CCXXYII. fig. 1.) 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 some grey ; antennae blackish ; palpi, pectus, and legs grey-brown, 

 the tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen red-brown tinged with 

 grey, the crests blackish, the ventral surface paler. Fore wing 

 greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, the 

 antemedial and medial areas with diffused dark bands ; a waved 

 blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, blackish, minutely dentate to median nervure, then 

 inwardly oblique ; an indistinct double sinuous dark medial line ; 

 reniform with faint whitish annulus slightly defined by blackish, a 

 whitish bar above it from costa and blackish spot on its outer edge ; 

 a blackish patch on costa before the postmedial line, which is 

 indistinctly double, blackish, somewhat dentate, at vein 3 retracted 

 to lower angle of cell, then erect, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line blackish, defined on inner side by dark 

 suffusion from costa to discal fold, oblique, slightly angled outwards 

 below veins 8, 7, 4, then sinuous and with diffused blackish spot on 

 its inner side below vein 2 ; a series of small black spots before 

 termen, and a slight waved dark terminal line. Hind wing red- 

 brown with slight dark irroration ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 brown, somewliat sinuous ; subterminal line brown, slightly waved, 

 excurved below vein 2 ; a series of blackish striae before termen and 

 a fine waved dark terminal line ; the underside clothed with leaden 

 grey scales, a faint dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Br. Gtuiajsta, Berbice {Aiken), 1 c? type, Eockstone 

 (Xai/e), 1 2 • E^p- 44 miUim. 



7963. Safia brunca. 



Yrias brunca, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 51 (1901). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, the last with the 

 dorsal crests blackish ; antennae blackish ; palpi, pectus, and legs 

 dark greyish brown, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; ventral surface 

 of abdomen brownish white. Fore wing red-brown with a greyish 

 tinge and slight red irroration ; stibbasal line slight, blackish, 

 minutely waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish towards costa, then almost obsolete, inwardly oblique ; an 

 indistinct double sinuous brown medial line ; reniform brownish 

 white faintly defined by brown ; a dark patch on costa before the 

 slight brown postmedial line which is waved, at vein 3 retracted to 



