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brown filled in with pale red-brown, somewhat dentate, angled 

 outwards below vein 7, then oblique ; a series of small black lunules 

 before termen with a minute white spot before the lunule at discal 

 fold ; a sinuous dark terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing red-brown suffused with darker brown ; traces of two 

 diffused sinuous dark medial lines ; a sinuous dark postmedial line ; 

 subterminal line dark, diffused on inner side, very slightly angled 

 outwards at discal fold, and with another rather diffused dark line 

 beyond it ; a small blackish spot on termen below vein 7 with 

 white points on its inner side and below, followed by a series of 

 small black lunules before termen ; a sinuous blackish terminal line 

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

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a 

 dark discoidal lunule with pale centre, sinuous medial line excurved 

 beyond the cell, and waved postmedial line, a small blackish spot on 

 termen below vein 7 with white spot on its inner side, a series 

 of dark striae faintly defined by whitish before termen, and some 

 white at middle of termen. 



Hah. W. Coast of Cente. America {Kellet Sf Wood), 1 5 

 type ; Venezuela, 2 $ ; Bjr. G-uiana {Roberts), 1 $ ; Fe. GtUIAna, 

 St. Laurent Maroni, type f laurena in U.S. ISTat. Mus. ; Bbazil, 

 Amazons, Para (Goeldi), Id . JSsp. 48-56 millim. 



7966. Safia metopis, n. sp. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 4.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey- 

 white ; the vertex of head defined by a triangular white line ; 

 tegulse tipped with white ; pal^ii black, the 1st joint white at base 

 and extremity, the 2nd and 3rd with white streaks in front ; frons 

 with lateral white lines, pectus whitish ; legs whitish and brown, 

 the tibiae and tarsi banded with black and white ; the ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish with some i-ufous at extremity. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused and irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line 

 white, oblique, from costa to median nervure ; antemedial line 

 blackish, defined on each side by white towards costa, oblique to 

 submedian fold, incurved at vein 1 ; two oblique sinuous blackish 

 medial lines defined on outer side by white at costa, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 1 ; a minute white annulus in middle of cell ; 

 reniform with white annulus, extending to well below the cell, its 

 centre defined by black-brown and constricted at middle, some 

 black-brown before it in the cell and a band beyond it from costa 

 where it is defined on inner side by white ; postmedial line blackish 

 defined on outer side by white, slightly excurved and waved to vein 

 3 where it is retracted to lower angle of cell, then oblique and 

 strong in submedian interspace, a dark shade beyond it from vein 3 

 to inner margin and some white points on costa ; subterminal line 

 double, dark, sinuous, a black-brown band before it from costa to 

 vein 3, angled outwards below vein 7, then oblique, a series of small 

 black lunules before termen ; a fine waved blackish terminal line ; 

 cilia with fine white lines at base and near tips. Hind wing grey- 

 brown ; a dark discoidal lunule ; traces of two sinuous dark medial 



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