188 KocTUiDj;. 



7977. Safia amata. 



HoDioptera amata, Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 345, pi. 31. f. 4 

 (189U). 



5 . Head and thorax dark red-brown irrorated with white, the 

 vertex of head white tinged with rufous ; palpi Avith white rings 

 at the extremities of the joints ; pectus and legs grey-hrown, the 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown irrorated with white, 

 a small dorsal white spot on 2nd segment and ochreous spot on 

 3rd segment. Fore wing greenish grey irrorated with white and 

 some blackish scales ; subbasal line black defined on each side by 

 white, sinuous, from costa to median nervure, a white and blackish 

 mark below the cell ; antemedial line black slightly defined on each 

 side by white, waved and somewhat inwardly oblique ; two 

 indistinct sinuous dark medial lines ; a minute dark spot in middle 

 of cell ; reniform defined by small white spots, rather produced at 

 lower extremity ; a dark patch followed by a slight bar and both 

 defined by white on postmedial part of costa ; postmedial line 

 black arising at vein 7, waved, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle 

 of cell, then erect and dentate ; subterminal line blackish slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, oblique, sinuous, forming a small 

 dentate black spot below vein 4 ; the terminal area with slight 

 brown and whitish streaks in the interspace with small black spots 

 defined on inner side by white on them before termen ; a slight 

 waved dark terminal line with white points at the interspaces. 

 Hind wing brown suffused with greenish grey and with slight dark 

 irroration except on costal area, in submedian fold and on inner 

 margin ; traces of a double sinuous medial line, minutely wavtd 

 postmedial and siibterminal lines, the latter faintly defined on 

 outer side by whitish, all interrupted on the brown areas ; a series 

 of minute black spots defined on inner side by white before termen ; 

 a fine waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside brown irrorated with Avhitish, diffused dark medial and 

 postmedial lines, and a subterminal shade. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 1 $ type, Grodman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exp. 50 millim. 



7978. Safia amella. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 14.) 



Campometra amella, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 25, pi. 18. f. 8 (1852); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 372; Dnice, Biol. Centi-.-Am., Het. ii. p. 507. 



Homoptera integerrima, Wlk. xiii. 1057 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. 

 p. 372. 



Homoptera stylohata, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 155 (1876). 



Homoptera amata,, Druoe. Binl. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 507 (part). 



Gampometra distilla, Dyar, Pi-oo. U.S. Nat. Miis. xliv. p. 30U (1913). 



Head, thomx, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with 

 gi'ey-white ; palpi black-brown, the 3rd joint white at base and 

 tip ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen dark brown 

 mixed with grey, the tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing 

 grey suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with blackish ; 



