184 NOCTUIB^. 



with black ; palpi blackish ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus 

 clothed with rufous hair ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing pale 

 grey tinged in parts with brown and thickly irrorated with black- 

 brown, the basal area suffused with black-brown ; subbasal line 

 black, minutely waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line black, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous ; an indistinct 

 treble oblique sinuous medial line ; reniform whitish with its 

 centre defined by blackish and some black before it ; postmedial 

 line black, oblique to below vein 7, then inwardly oblique to discal 

 fold, then excurved, at vein 3 retracted to lower edge of reniform, 

 and excurved and waved to inner margin, a black-brown spot 

 beyond it on costa followed by an oblique striga ; subterminal line 

 double, blackish, oblique, waved below discal fold ; a series of 

 black striae before termen and a waved black terminal line. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with black-brown ; 

 traces of two sinuous brown lines beyond the cell ; postmedial 

 line slight, blackish, minutely waved, some blackish suffusion from 

 it to the subterminal line which is black, angled outwards at discal 

 fold where there is a diffused black spot beyond it, then incurved ; 

 a series of black striae before termen and a waved black terminal 

 line ; the imderside whitish irrorated with dark brown, a large 

 black discoidal lunule, two rather diffused waved medial lines 

 excurved beyond the cell, a waved postmedial line excurved below 

 costa, and a broad blackish subterminal band. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Sitio {Sehaus), 1 S • Eay. 54 millim. 



7973. Safia celia. 



Phalmm celia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 109, pi. 340. ff. E, F (1781) ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Het. i. p. 347. 



S . Head and tegulae iiifous, the latter wath black line near 

 base and black and white tips ; thorax dark brown mixed with 

 grey ; palpi blackish in front ; frons with black lateral bars and 

 slight line above ; pectus clothed with bright rufous hair ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests blackish. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated and striated 

 with blackish, the basal half darker ; svibbasal line black, excurved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 sinuous, defined on outer side by a greyish white band emitting 

 faint streaks outwards in cell and submedian fold and on inner 

 margin ; an indistinct double sinuous dark medial line ; reniform 

 faintly defined by blackish ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 blackish, waved, oblique to discal fold, then inwardly oblique, a 

 wedge-shaped black mark bej^ond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, double, oblique, waved ; a series of black striae before 

 termen, a slight waved blackish line just before termen, and fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind Aving brown mixed with grey and 



