180 NOCTUiD.ii:. 



lines ; postmedial line blackish slightly defined on outer side by 

 whitish, waved ; subterminal line black, sti'ong, angled outwards at 

 discal fold and ending on termen at vein 1 ; the terminal area with 

 slight reddish streaks on the veins ; a quadrate terminal black spot 

 below vein 7 defined by ochreous white and with white streak below 

 it, followed by a seiies of black strise defined on inner side by 

 whitish before termen ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia with 

 fine white line at base, the tips whitish at discal fold. Underside 

 of fore wing variegated white and brown, the postmedial area red- 

 brown except on inner area, orbicular with black centre, the reniform 

 with small black spots above and below connected by a dark striga, 

 a double oblique sinuous medial line, waved postmedial line, oblique 

 to vein 4, then incm-ved, waved subterminal line, a series of black 

 lunules before termen, oblique towards apex ; hind wing white 

 irrorated with brown, the postmedial area suffused with brown to 

 vein 2, a black spot in middle of cell and large diseoidal lunule, 

 double waved medial line excurved beyond the cell, waved postmedial 

 line, strong black subterminal shade angled outwards at discal fold, 

 black spot on termen below vein 7, and series of black and white striae 

 before termen. 



Hah. Bh. GrUiAisrA, Demerara {Roclway), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



7967. Safia amazonica. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 5.) 



Laoera amazoniea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 57. 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown ; antennae fuscous ; pectus and 

 legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen reddish brown with slight pale segmental lines, the ventral 

 surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing red-brown, the 

 basal area, inner half of medial area, and costal area to beyond the 

 postmedial line irrorated with whitish ; subbasal line double, brown 

 filled in with whitish, excurved below costa and ending at median 

 nervure ; anternedial line double, brown, the lines defined on outer 

 side by whitish, incurved in cell and excurved in submedian inter- 

 space ; a slight dark double sinuous medial line excurved in the cell, 

 followed by a single line ; reniform with white annulus, its centre 

 defined by dark brown and with small blackish annuli in upper and 

 lower parts, somewhat constricted at middle ; postmedial line 

 blackish, oblique towards costa, then waved, at vein 3 retracted to 

 lower angle of cell, then obliqiie and slightly excurved at vein 2, 

 the area between it and the subterminal line pale red-brown below 

 vein 2 ; subterminal line indistinctly double, dark brown, angled 

 inwards at vein 7, then oblique to vein 2 where it is angled iuAvards, 

 then bent outwards to tornus ; a series of dark striae before termen 

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

 obscure brown diseoidal lunule ; an indistinct double waved medial 

 line filled in with whitish, arising at vein 6, incurved to lower angle 

 of Cell, then represented by whitish and dark striae on vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line double, dark brown filled in with whitish, waved, 



