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and tips' ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen tinged with red- 

 brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with 

 fuscous, the basal area suffused with fuscous ; a slight subbasal 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in 

 with grey, slightly sinuous and somewhat oblique below the cell ; 

 medial line double, blackish filled in with grey, oblique and slightly 

 sinuous ; reniform with faint whitish annulus slightly defined by 

 blackish, a pale mark above it on costa with blackish suffusion 

 before and beyond it ; postmedial line indistinctly double, dark, 

 waved, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then somewhat 

 excurved ; an oblique blackish mark from costa before the sub- 

 terminal line, which is indistinct, double, dark, waved, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7, then oblique ; a series of blackish striae 

 before termen defined on inner side by whitish and with dark streaks 

 from them to termen. Hind wing grey suffused with brown and 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct double waved blackish 

 medial line ; postmedial line black, oblique, slightly waved ; sub- 

 terminal line black, slightly waved towards costa, angled outwards 

 at discal fold, then oblique and almost straight ; a series of black 

 striae before termen defined on inner side by whitish ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line and pale line at base of cilia ; the underside 

 whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a slight blackish discoidal 

 kmule, waved medial line excurved beyond the cell, waved postmedial 

 line, and diffused subterminal line expanding on costal area. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Sixola E., type t minor in U.S. Nat. Mus ; 

 Venezuela, Aroa, 1 6 . lixp. 38 millim. 



7982. Safia ohscura. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 18.) 



Campometra obsciira, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 44 (1901). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with blackish; antennae 

 blackish ; palpi blackish, the 3rd joint white at base and extremity ; 

 pectus and legs grey mixed with brown, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing 

 reddish brown with slight dark irroration, the basal half and 

 postmedial costal area suffused with dark brown ; a sinuous black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, define'd on outer side by 

 reddish; antemedial line black, inwardly oblique, sinuous, angled 

 outwards at median nervure ; a double oblique sinuous blackish 

 medial line ; reniform slightly defined by black and by white striae 

 and points, rather triangular, a pale bar above it from costa ; a 

 blackish patch on costa before the postmedial line, which is black, 

 waved to vein 3, then retracted to origin of vein 2, then erect and 

 dentate, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line blackish with some black suffusion before it towards costa, 

 oblique, waved, slightly angled outwards below vein 7 ; a series of 

 minute black lunules before termen faintly defined on inner side by 

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

 cilia. Hind wing red-brown with some dark irroration ; white 



