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NOCTUID.TE. 



*7988. Safia cceruleotincta. (Plate CCXXVITI. fig. 4.) 



Safia coeruleotincia, Scbaiis, Proe. Enfc. Soc. Wash. xiv. p. 213 (1912). 



2 . Head and thorax dark reddish brown slightly mixed with 

 grey ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests 

 darker. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with blue-grey ; sub- 

 basal line black-brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line black-brown, minutely waved, slightly angled outwards at 

 submedian fold, expanding into a spot at costa ; a slight sinuous 

 dark medial line, excurved in cell and with a black-brown patch 

 bej'ond it above inner margin ; reniform pale rufous defined by 

 brown and with an obliquely curved pale rufous patch above 

 it from costa to the angle of the postmedial line, which is black- 

 brown, obliquely downcurved from costa to below vein 7, then 

 minutely dentate, at vein 3 bent inwards to origin of vein 2, then 

 erect and angled outwards below submedian fold ; some whitish 

 points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line black-brown, 

 slightly waved, rather diifused towards costa, somewhat angled 

 outwards below vein 7, angled outwards below vein 4, then 

 incurved and with small black-brown patch before it at submedian 

 fold ; a series of small black-brown s]3ots before termen with 

 slight streaks from them to terinen. Hind wing red-brown, some 

 blackish irroration on vein 1 ; an indistinct irregularly waved dark 

 postmedial line ; a black-brown siibterminal line, almost obsolete 

 towards costa, angled oiitwards at discal fold and excurved at 

 submedian fold ; a series of brown points before termen ; a faint 

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

 underside grey-brown, indistinct diffiTsed curved medial and post- 

 medial lines, a dark subterminal shade, series of points before 

 termen, and waved terminal line. 



Hah. Fr. Guia]va, St. Jean Maroni (ScJiaiis), type f ? i" 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. :Ewp. 44 millim. 



*7989. Safia guapila. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 5.) 



CavqMmeira guapila, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) x. p. 511 (1912). 



S ■ Head and tegulas crimson-red mixed with ochreous ; jDalpi 

 dark chocolate-brown, pale at tips ; antennai dark brown ; thorax 

 red-brown mixed with grey ; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi 

 ringed with ochreous ; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark 

 chocolate-brown mixed with grey, an oblique shade from medial 

 and postmedial parts of costa narrowing to inner margin near base 

 and the terminal area greyer, some crimson irroration in and below 

 the cell ; two subbasal ochreous striae from costa ; antemedial line 

 blackish, somewhat dentate to median nervure, then oblique and 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; a very indistinct diffused blackish 

 medial line; reniform very obscurely defined, with two whitish 

 striae on inner side and a black line defined on inner side by whitish 



