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lower angle o£ cell, then erect, some whitish points alternating with 

 blackish streaks beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 double, brown, oblique, slightly excurved below veins 7 and 4 ; a 

 series of black striae before termen ; a waved black termin al line 

 and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown with a 

 slight greyish tinge and some red irroration ; faint traces of two 



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Fig. 52. — Sofia bnmca, S- \- 



sinuous medial lines ; postmedial line slight, brown faintly defined 

 on outer side by grey, sinuous ; an indistinct double slightly waved 

 red-brown subterminal line ; a series of brown striae before termen, 

 and a waved brown terminal line ; the underside clothed with leaden 

 fuscous scales and with traces of diffused antemedial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal lines. 



5 . Fore wing with pale annulus to the reniform, its inner edge 

 with whitish bar, its outer edge with two white points at lower 

 extremity, some fuscous suffusion beyond the postmedial line and at 

 middle of terminal area ; underside of hind wing brown with some 

 pale irroration, two indistinct diffused medial lines, a postmedial 

 line, a subterminal shade, and series of dark striae before termen. 



Hah. Be. GrUiAjfA, Demerara ; Fk. Guiana, St. Laurent 

 Maroni (ScJiatis), 1 c? ; Beazil, Amazons {Pearce), 1 $ . £!a-p. 

 S 36, $ 44 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male on underside not clothed with 

 silky androconia. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted to lower 

 angle of cell. 

 a. Hind wing with small terminal black spot with white 

 point on its inner side below vein 7. 

 a^. Palpi with fine white streaks in front. 



a^. Fore wing with the lines not defined by white at 

 costa. 

 o3. Hind wing with small round black spots before 



termen between veins 5 and '2 sublimis. 



