194 NOCTUID^. 



postmedial line black, arising at vein 7 where it is bent ovitwarcls, 

 then sinuous, oblique to vein 3, then bent inwards to lower angle of 

 eell, and erect to inner margin, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line faint, dark, oblique, minutely dentate, a 

 diffused whitish line beyond it between veins 6 and 2 ; a series of 

 black striae defined on inner side by whitish before termen and a 

 fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing pale red-brown suffused 

 and irrorated with dark brown ; traces of a double sinuous medial 

 line ; postmedial line faint, dark, sinuous, angled inwards beyond 

 lower angle of cell ; subterminal line blackish, waved, arising at 

 vein 6 and slightly angled outAvards at discal fold, a diffused 

 whitish line beyond it ; a series of blackish striae before termen 

 defined on inner side by whitish ; a slight waved blackish terminal 

 line; the underside whitish iirorated Math brown, the terminal area 

 black-brown, a dark discoidal lunule, waved medial line excurved 

 beyond the cell, postmedial line excurved and waved from below 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique, a series of minute whitish lunules 

 before termen, and some whitish at middle of termen. 



$ . Fore wing without the pale line beyond the subterminal 

 line. 



Hal. SuEiNAM ; Bbazil, Amazons, Manaos (Trail), 1 c? , 

 E. Purus, Yistahnda (Trail), 1 $ . -K.'rp. d 38, $ 44 millim. 



7986. Safia abscisa. (Plate CCXXYIII. fig. 2.) 



Sofia ahscisa, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 54 (191 1). 

 Homoptera decessa, Druce, Biol. Ceiitr.-Aui., Het. ii. p. 507 (part.), nee 

 Wlk. 



2 . Head inafous with some blackish scales between antennae ; 

 thorax dark reddish brown ; palpi blackish irrorated with grey ; 

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

 with whitish ; abdomen dark brown, the ventral surface whitish 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing black-brown with a purplish grey 

 gloss and mixed with some red-brown ; subbasal line slight, black, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 waved, excurved below the cell ; two indistinct sinuous dark 

 medial lines ; reniform pale reddish brown defined by pale points ; 

 a dark patch defined by pale reddish bi'own on postmedial part of 

 costa ; postmedial line black, arising at vein 7, sinuous, oblique to 

 vein 3, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and erect to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line black, oblique, sinuous, angled 

 outwards below veins 7 and 4 ; a series of black striae 

 defined on inner side by whitish before termen ; a slight waved 

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

 red-brown suffused with dark brown ; traces of two sinuous medial 

 lines ; postmedial line slight, black, minvitely waved ; subterminal 

 line black, minutely waved, arising at vein 6, slightly angled 

 outwards at discal fold, then incurved to submedian fold and 



