20G 



noctuiDvt:. 



8002. Safia nycticliroa, n. sp. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 16.) 



Homojptera decessa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Het. i. p. 345 (part.), nee Wlk. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with some grey, 

 the vertex of head whitish ; palj)i, pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen grey mixed with dark brown, the tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white. Fore wing red-brown tinged with dark brown and' 

 slightly irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line black defined on outer 

 side b}^ grey, curved from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 black, waved ; two waved black medial lines ; reniform defined on 

 inner side by black, a small white spot on its outer edge, a white 

 point at upper extremity and two at lower extremity ; a dark patch 

 on postmedial part of costa defined by whitish tinged with red-brown ; 

 postmedial line black, arising at vein 7, oblique, sinuous, incurved 

 between vein 3 and submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line black, oblique, slightly waved ; a series 

 of black striae before termen connected by short streaks with the 

 waved black terminal line. Hind wing red-brown suffused with dark 

 bi'own ; a double sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line double, 

 blackish, minutely waved ; subterminal line black, slightly angled 

 outwards at diseal fold, a slight pale line beyond it from vein 4 to 

 tornus ; a series of minute black spots before termen and a fine 

 waved black terminal line ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal lunule, minutely waved medial line 

 excurved beyond the cell, minutely waved postmedial line ending at 

 tornus, and broad dark subterminal shade with series of dark points 

 beyond it. 



Sab. Panama, Chiriqui (Chaiiij)ioii), 1 $ type, Grodman- 

 Salvin Coll. IJxj). 44 millim. 



*8003. Safia noctar. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Yrias noctar, Schaiis, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 49 (1901.) 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown with some grey 

 mixed ; fore and mid tibise and the tarsi black-brown ringed with 

 white. Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated with grey ; two whitish 

 subbasal points on costa ; antemedial line with two whitish points 

 on costa, then very indistinct, double, dark, waved, excurved ; a 

 small whitish spot at upper angle of cell and more prominent spot 

 at lower angle ; postmedial line with double whitish striae from costa, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then represented by a series of 

 white points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some small whitish 

 spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 slight ochreous white spots, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of white and black points ; cilia with fine 

 whitish lines at base and middle. Hind wing fuscous brown slightly 

 iiTorated with grey ; traces of a double dark medial line ; traces of a 

 minutely dentate dark postmedial line from vein 6 to inner jnargin 

 with white points at the veins ; traces of a waved subterminal line 

 Avith whitish marks on it below vein 5 and at submedian fold ; 



