SAFIA. 201 



*7995. Safia nigrescens. (Plate CCXXVITI. fig. 10.) 



Barydia nigrescens, Schaus, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xiv. p. 213 (1912). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; tarsi 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown. 

 Fore wing white suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark 

 brown, the terminal area dark brown with a greyish tinge ; a dark 

 subbasal line, angled outwards below costa and ending at sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, dark brown, dentate ; 

 a small black spot in middle of cell ; reniform brown with 

 indistinct dark outline, narrowing above, some white on its outer 

 edge, and a point before it on median nervure, two brown bars 

 above it from costa ; a postmedial brown spot on costa defined by 

 white, the indistinct postmedial brown line obscurely defined on 

 each side by white arising from it, minutely waved, somewhat 

 incurved at discal fold, at vein 3 reti-acted to below end of cell, 

 then oblique to inner margin ; subterminal line slight, black, 

 faintly defined on each side by reddish brown, oblique and sinuous 

 to below vein 7 where it is strongly angled outwards, incurved at 

 discal fold, excurved at middle, then incurved and sinuous ; a 

 series of black striai before termen defined on outer side by white. 

 Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area fuscous brown ; some 

 black-brown and white bars across terminal half of vein 1 ; traces 

 of an oblique waved postmedial line with slight whitish marks on 

 its inner side on the veins of inner half, ending at tornus ; traces 

 of a waved subterminal line, ending on termen at submedian fold 

 towards which it is faintly defined on oiiter side by whitish ; a 

 crenulate dark terminal line with slight whitish marks be3^ond it 

 on termen ; cilia chequered brown and whitish ; the underside 

 irrorated with whitish, two curved brown postmedial lines and a 

 dark subterminal shade. 



Hah. Fk. Guiaka, St. Jean Maroni (Schmcs), type f d" in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. i:x2J. 56 millim. 



7996. Safia irresoluta. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 11.) 



Ehidmim irresoluta, Wlk. xv. 1821 (1858). 



c5" . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with dark brown 

 and some grey ; palpi black-brown irrorated with white ; pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen dark brown mixed with grey, 

 the tarsi black ringed with M"hite. Fore wing red-brown suffused 

 and irrorated with dark brown, the outer half of medial area, the 

 postmedial area except towards costa and the terminal area paler ; 

 subbasal line slight, blackish, sinuous, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line blackish, sinuous, excurved at submedian 

 fold ; a double sinuous blackish medial line ; reniform brownish 

 Avhite faintly defined by blackish, its centre defined by some dark 

 scales, two ochreous bars above it from costa ; postmedial line with 



