654 ARCTIADJE. 



silvery white with a slight brown terminal line from apex to vein 2; 

 the cilia slightly brown at tips at apex. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused with cupreous bi-own with some white marks on costa 

 towards apex ; hind wing with the costal area suffused with 

 cupreous brown and with a blackish discoidal spot. 



Hab. Peru, Carabaya, Agualani (Ockenden), typef $ in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 24 millim. 



*736/t\ Afrida flavifera. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 19.) 

 Afrida flavifera, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, vii. p. 13 (1914). 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen white suffused with cupreous 

 brown. Fore wing silvery white; a wedge-shaped patch edged 

 with diffused black on base of costa and a subbasal black point 

 below the cell with another beyond it ; antemedial line black, 

 excurved and slightly waved to above vein 1, then incurved ; the 

 medial area suffused with cupreous brown : a slight dark medial 

 line, angled outwards below costa, then waved ; some yellow beyond 

 upper angle of cell ; postmedial line black to discal fold then 

 brown, angled inwards below costa and outwards at vein 7, excurved 

 at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped black subterminal patch on costal area with a curved 

 white striga from costa and some yellow below it, then some small 

 blackish spots ; the terminal area with triangular patch of cupreous 

 brown suffusion defined above by an oblique black streak from 

 apex and extending at middle to near the postmedial line ; a 

 punctiform blackish terminal line and brown line through the cilia. 

 Hind wing white ; a slight brown discoidal spot and subterminal 

 shade ; a fine brown terminal line except towards torn us ; the 

 underside with the costal area suffused with brown except towards 

 apex and with blackish ante- and postmedial patches. 



Hab. Colombia, Cordoba, Monte Tolima, type t 6 in Coll. 

 Dognin. JSxp. 22 millim. 



737 a. Afrida melampages. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 20.) 



Afrida melieerta, ab. 2, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. ii. p. 350. 

 Afrida melampages, Dyar, Insec. Inscit. Menstr. i. 3, p. 32 (1913). 



d . Head and thorax silvery white, the patagia, pro- and meta- 

 thorax with paired black patches ; antennae, except basal joint, and 

 palpi blackish; frons tinged with fuscous; pectus and legs mostly 

 black ; abdomen white, banded with fuscous. Fore wing silvery 

 white ; a black patch on base of costa ; an antemedial hoop-shaped 

 black mark from discal fold to above inner margin ; a conical 

 black patch from costa to lower angle of cell where it is confluent 

 with a triangular patch on terminal area extending from apex to 

 tornus with irregular edges; a semielliptical black mark on costa 

 towards apex. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with 



