AFRIDA. 05:3 



antennae blackish. Fore wing white ; the basal area tinged with 

 brown ; subbasal line blackish, from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 medial band of brown suffusion defined by black lines, the inner 

 line angled outwards at vein 1, the outer at vein 4, the inner half 

 of the band more strongly suffused with brown ; the terminal area 

 suffused with brown, connected at vein 4 with the medial band. 

 Hind wing whitish, the terminal area suffused with grey; a slight 

 giw discoidal spot. 



Huh, Cuba, Baracoa (Schaus). Exp. 12 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



*736«. Afrida ydatodes. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 17.) 

 Afrida ydatodes, Dyar, Insec. Inscit. Menstr. i. 3, p. 31 (1913). 



2 ■ Head, thorax and abdomen white suffused with brown ; 

 antenna' blackish. Fore wing white irrorated with brown; the 

 basal costal area suffused with brown and defined by the black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; medial area strongly 

 suffused with brown defined by slightly darker lines, the inner line 

 angled outwards at vein 1, the outer at vein 4 ; a black spot 

 beyond the cell ; the terminal area suffused with brown. Hind 

 wing whitish, the terminal area suffused with grey; a small grey 

 discoidal spot. 



JIff/j. U.S.A., Florida , (Beutenmuller). Exp. 12 millim. This 

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

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*TS6j. Afrida basipunctata. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 18.) 



Afrida basipunctata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 195 (1913). 



S ■ Palpi, irons, and antennae dark cupreous brown, the vertex 

 of head and tegulae white; thorax white mixed with dark cupreous 

 brown; abdomen white tinged with cupreous brown; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen cupreous brown. Fore wing silvery 

 white ; the costa black-brown towards base with some cupreous 

 brown irroration below it ; subbasal black bars from costa and cell, 

 the latter with a black spot beyond it in submedian interspace ; 

 antemedial line black, rather oblique, angled outwards in submedian 

 fold ; the median area suffused and in-orated with cupreous brown 

 and with a faint oblique irregularly waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line black, inwardly oblique towards costa, then slightly excurved 

 to diseal fold, then oblique to vein -1, slightly angled inwards at 

 submedian fold and excurved to inner margin, an oblique wedge- 

 shaped black patch beyond it from costa enclosing a small white 

 spot on costa and a black spot in diseal fold ; a black line arising 

 from apex, oblique and sinuous to vein 6, then obliquely excurved 

 to vein 1 near the postmedia.l line, then sinuous to fcornus, the area 

 beyond it suffused and irrorated with cupreous brown. Hind wing 



