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Afrida coagulata Dyar. 



This will be described in my fourth paper on Mexican Lepidoptera, to 

 appear in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 



Afrida amphithrepta, new species. 



Fore wing silvery white ; a broad purple shade on two-thirds of costa, 

 cut by a white bar beyond base, the segments black edged ; a small 

 black arc on costa before apex ; a broad purple shade on outer margin, 

 projecting centrally to below cell ; a black dot above it and one below 

 above inner margin ; base a little yellowish ; a crooked looped line rising 

 from inner margin to cell at basal third. Hind wing whitish, with broad 

 gray border and discal dot. Expanse, 1 5 mm. 



Type, female. No. 1 5435, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Metan, Province of Salta 

 Argentina, February, 1905 (E. Dinelli). 



Afrida melampages, new species. 



Fore wing white, marked with purple-black, the markings large and 

 coarse ; a spot at base of costa ; a large quadrate central patch, touching 

 the patch on the margin ; a small arc before apex ; patch on outer margin 

 irregularly edged, projecting inward to middle of costal patch ; a thick 

 looped line rising from inner margin at basal third ; a dot at outer third. 

 Hind wing smoky gray. Expanse, I 6 mm. 



Type, female. No. 1 5436, U. S. Nat. Mus.; SSo Paulo, Brazil (Schaus 

 collection). 



This is also the type of melicerta Ab. 2 Hampson (Cat. Lep. Phal. 

 Brit. Mus., ii, 350, 1900). 



Afrida zoephila Dyar. 



To be described in my fourth Mexican paper. 



Afrida melenita Dognin. 



Afrida melenita Dognin, Het. Nouv. I'Am. du Sud, ii, 13, 191 I. 



Described from French Guiana, whence I have a series of six, taken 

 by Mr. Schaus. 



Afrida oligoglotta, new species. 



Fore wing silvery white ; costa with triangular purple-browTi patch at 

 base, small semicircular luteous spot at middle, edged with black, indis- 

 tinctly so below, and a small black arc before apex ; outer margin with 



