AFIUDA. 655 



fuscous; the underside with the costal area suffused with black, a 

 black line from costa to lower angle of cell, and a subterminal spot 

 in submedian interspace. 



2 . Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous. 



Hub. Brazil, Sao Paulo (D. Jones), 2 J , 1 $ ; Boltvia. 

 Exp. 18 niillim. 



*737 b. Afrida oligoglotta. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 21.) 



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



Head and thorax white; antennae and palpi black; pectus and 

 legs tinged with fuscous, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white with dorsal fuscous bands. Fore wing silvery white; a 

 triangular purple-brown patch at base of costal area ; a semicircular 

 yellowish patch defined by black at middle of costal area ; a medial 

 black line from vein 2 to inner margin, angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 a small black hoop on costa towards apex ; the terminal area 

 purple-brown denned on inner side by an irregular black line, 

 oblique from apex to diseal fold beyond the cell, then nearly erect 

 to below vein 2, then bent outwards ; postmedial line represented 

 by a black striga from vein 7 joining the brown area and a bar at 

 inner margin. Hind wing whitish ; a small brown discoidal spot 

 and subterminal shade from costa to vein 2. 



Hub. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones). Exp. 18 millim. 

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

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



737 e. Afrida viridifera, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 22.) 



Afrida melicerta, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. ii. p. 350 (part.), ncc 

 "Druce. 



cT . Head and thorax white ; antennae, frons, and palpi blackish ; 

 patagia, pro- and metathorax with paired black spots ; pectus and 

 legs suffused with blackish; abdomen white suffused with fuscous 

 except at base where there is a depressed black crest. Fore wing 

 silvery white; the costal edge black towards base with a pale 

 yellow-green patch below it before the curved black subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold; a black spot above vein 1 before 

 the waved black antemedial line from just below the cell to inner 

 margin ; a conical pale yellow-green patch defined by black on 

 costa above end of cell; a black spot below end of cell and line 

 from submedian fold to inner margin, angled outwards at vein 1 ; 

 two small black spots on postmedial part of costa with some pale 

 yellow-green suffusion below them; the terminal area purplish 

 brown irrorated with blackish and its inner edge defined by black, 

 arising at apex, bent inwards below costa and at vein 6 to just 

 beyond the cell, then erect and sinuous, a black postmedial striga 

 defined on each side by white from its retracted part ; traces of a 

 blackish subterminal Line. Hind wing white slightly tinged with 



