050 AltCTIADJE. 



antemedial black spot above vein 1 ; a postmedial spot on vein 5 

 and bar-shaped spot between veins 2 and 1. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, type f J in Coll. D. Jones. 

 E.xy. 20 millim. 



*735«. Afrida tortricifascies. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 8.) 



Afridd tortricifascies, Dyar, Insec. Inscit. Menstr. i. 3, p. 28 (1913). 



Head and thorax white tinged with grey-green, a brownish mark 

 on prothorax; antennae and palpi brownish ; pectus and legs with 

 some brown markings ; abdomen whitish dorsally banded with 

 brown. Fore wing white tinged with grey-green, the markings 

 purplish black ; antemedial line black, curved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a semicircular mark defined by black at middle of 

 costa and a triangular mark at inner margin, its inner edge angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; the postmedial area with several faint interrupted 

 dentate lines ; some purplish suffusion on termen with a small 

 round red spot before it at middle. Hind wing whitish, the termen 

 suffused with fuscous ; a dark discoidal point. 



Hab. Haiti, San Francisco Mts. (Busck). Exp. 10 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



730^. Afrida mcsomelaena, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 9.) 



2 . Head and thorax white mixed with some black, the patagia 

 with ochreous patches ; antennae black except at base ; palpi black 

 with white ring at extremity of 2nd joint ; tarsi mostly black ; 

 abdomen black, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing white, 

 tinged in parts with olive-yellow except on terminal area ; the 

 costal edge black towards base and with a black spot at base ; ante- 

 medial band black, expanding into a patch at costa, angled outwards 

 at median nervure and ending at vein 1 ; medial band blackish 

 defined at sides by black lines, strongly constricted in the cell and 

 less strongly at submedian fold, expanding widely at inner margin ; 

 some black marks on postmedial part of costa and a spot beyond 

 the cell ; a fuscous terminal shade, its inner edge sinuous aud 

 narrowing to tornus. Hind wing white suffused with fuscous. 

 Underside white suffused with fuscous ; fore wing with some white 

 marks on costa towards apex ; hind wing with black discoidal 

 spot. 



Hab. Jamaica (Kai/c), 1 2 type. Exj). 22 millim. 



730 b. Afrida parvula. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 10.) 

 Afrida parvula, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 363 (1911). 



<5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with brown ; palpi 

 and irons black-brown; antennae brown. Fore wing white tinged 

 with ochreous ; the costal edge black towards base; a curved waved 



