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extremity and ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing with the 

 basal area purple-brown, extending on costa to beyond middle and 

 on inner area to near tornus, its outer edge angled on vein 3, the 

 base of costa white, a crimson streak below costa and some crimson 

 at base of inner margin, the brown area tinged with crimson 

 outwardly, the terminal area bright yellow, the costal edge brownish, 

 a curved series of small dark spots between veins 8 and 3. Hind 

 wing pale yellow, the inner area with some crimson hair. 



Rah. Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type t S in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 34 millirn. 



*V2l±a. Aphyle affinis. 



Aphyle affinis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 24, pi. 4. f. 12 (1909). 



Head orange, white behind ; palpi yellow at base, then blackish 

 white in front and at tips ; antennae black with the basal joint 

 white ; thorax white with black patches on pro- and metathoxax ; 

 fore and mid tibiae fuscous above, the tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 white ; abdomen yellow, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 white, the costa yellow; patches of pinkish yellow suffusion on 

 medial area except towards costa and beyond lower angle of cell ; 

 a black point at base of costa; a narrow oblique black antemedial 

 band from just below costa very slightly angled at median nervure ; 

 a very oblique black bar from below middle of costa to beyond 

 lower angle of cell and a bar from below vein 3 to inner margin 

 near tornus; a semicircular black band enclosing the apical area. 

 Hind wing yellow with the costa white. 



Hub. Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa {Klages) ; Peru, Carabaya, 

 La Union, Rio Huacamayo {Ockenden), type t 6 in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp., d! 30, 2 3-1-millim. 



1214 b. Aphyle cuneata. 

 Aphyle cuneata, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xv. p. 439 (1905). 



Antenna' of male serrate, the apical third simple ; hind wing 

 with veins B, 5 from cell. 



cf . Head and thorax white tinged in parts with buff ; palpi black 

 behind ; tegula; with blackish line near base, incomplete at middle, 



Fig. 7. Aphyle cuneata, cJ. \. 



a brown medial line, and blackish line at tips; patagia with two 

 blackish bars; meso- and metathorax with paired fuscous spots; 



