192 NOCTUID.Tl. 



points in and beyond lower angle of cell ; traces o£ a double 

 sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line slight, black, sinuous, a 

 slight blackish shade beyond it ; subterminal line black, obsolescent 

 towards costa, slightly angled outwards at discal fold, then some- 

 what sinuous ; a series of minute black lunules before termen 

 defined on inner side by whitish ; a fi.ne waved black terminal line 

 and pale line at base of cilia ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal lunule defined by blackish, double minutely 

 waved medial line, minutely waved postmedial line, subterminal 

 shade, and series of small black spots before termen. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with large black patch on inner half of medial 

 area. — G-renada. 



Hal. Pakama, LaChorrera (-DoZ&;/-I;y/er), 1 J ,2 2 ; Grenada 

 (iT. H. Smith), 1 $ ; Fe. G-tjiana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 $ . 

 IJxp. 36-48 millim. 



7983. Safia albidiscata. (Plate CC XXVII. fig. 19.) 



Yrias albidiscata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 49 (1901). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with dark 

 brown and grey, the last with the crests blackish ; palpi with the 3rd 

 joint black, white at base and extremity ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen grey mixed with dark brown, the fore and mid 

 tibiae ringed with white, the tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing 

 grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown and faintly tinged with 

 reddish ; subbasal line black slightly defined on each side by white, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black 

 slightly defined on each side by white, minutely waved, excurved to 

 submedian fold ; an indistinct double sinuous dark medial line ; 

 reniform with its centre defined by blackish, its inner side with white 

 points above and below, its outer with white bar and two points at 

 lower extremity, connected with the costa by a white bar ; a 

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

 defined on outer side by white towards costa, dentate to vein 3, 

 then angled inwards to below end of cell, then excurved and 

 sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 blackish, defined on outer side by white towards costa, oblique, 

 sinuous, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4 ; a series of minute 

 black lunules with white points before them before termen ; a 

 waved black terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing reddish brown tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration ; 

 a minute white point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line faint, 

 blackish, minutely waved; subterminal line slight, black, waved, 

 obsolescent towards costa ; a series of minute black lunules with 

 white points before them before termen ; a fine waved black 

 terminal line ; the underside bluish grey irrorated with brown, a 

 slight dark discoidal lunule defined on outer side by whitish placed 

 on a faint diffused medial line, a diffused sinuous postmedial line, 

 subterminal shade, and series of dark striae before termen. 



