178 NOCTUID^. 



brown patch beyond it ; postmedial line black defined on outer side 

 by pale red-brown, oblique to below vein 7, dentate at vein 3, then 

 retracted to lower angle of cell, then oblique and angled outwards 

 at vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subtenninal line 

 double, blackish filled in with pale red-brown, slightly waved to vein 

 6, then incurved ; a series of black striae before tennen ; a sinuous 

 blackish terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing dark reddish brown ; an indistinct sinuous dark postmedial 

 line defined on outer side by pale brown, a minute white striga on 

 it at vein 1 defined on each side by blackish ; subterminal line 

 blackish, obsolescent towards costa, slightly angled outwards at 

 discal fold, then defined on outer side by pale brown and ending on 

 termen at vein 1 ; a terminal black spot below vein 7 with white 

 point on its inner side and minute white streak below it ; the 

 terminal area cupreous reddish between veins 5 and 2 with round 

 black spots in the interspaces and black streaks on the veins, veins 

 5 and 2 with minute white streaks ; a sinuous blackish terminal 

 line and fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside greyish brown, 

 the costal area irrorated with grey to beyond middle, a discoidal 

 lunule with dark outline, double medial line excurved beyond 

 the cell, waved postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish, 

 subterminal shade slightly defined on outer side by whitish, terminal 

 black spot with white point in centre below vein 7, and dark striae 

 before termen below veins 4 and 3, the lower defined on inner side 

 by white. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), Id, 1 2 • Exp. 

 58 millim. 



7965. Safia picifica. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 3.) 



Homnptera pacijica, Wlk. xiii. 10()6 (1857). 



CoRiiipeta laiirena, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 117 (1906). 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the tips of tegulse with 

 some white scales ; palpi black-brown with two white streaks in 

 front ; sides of frons with white lines ; pectus and legs brown 

 mixed with grey, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing dark 

 red-brown with a faint purplish gloss and irrorated in parts with 

 some blue-white scales ; subbasal line slight, pale, sinuous, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line dark brown, oblique, 

 waved, defined on each side by pale brown towards costa and with 

 some pure white on its outer edge in stibmedian interspace ; an 

 oblique blackish medial line defined on outer side by pale brown, 

 angled outwards at median nervure and vein 1 ; reniform with 

 whitish annulus except below, its centre defined by dark brown, its 

 outer edge oblique and connected with the costa by a whitish bar ; 

 postmedial line blackish defined on outer side by pale brown, waved, 

 oblique to below vein 7, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, 

 then oblique and angled outwards at vein 1, the costa beyond it 

 blackish with some white points ; a wedge-shaped dark brown patch 

 on costal area before the subtenninal line, which is double, black- 



