656 AUCTIADJE. 



brown ; the underside white, the costal half irrorated with fuscous, 

 a blackish discoidal spot and some blackish subterminal marks. 

 Hah. Bolivia, Chaco (Garlepp), 1 <S type. Exp. 20 millim. 



737 d. Afrida superciliosa. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 23.) 



Afrida melicerta, ab. 1, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. ii. p. 350 (1900). 

 Afrida superciHosa, Dyar, Insec. Inscit. Menstr. i. 3, p. 33 (1913). 



S . Head and thorax silvery white ; palpi and antennae brown ; 

 frons tinged with brown ; tegulye with some black at tips, the 

 shoulders with black stripes, the patagia, meso- and metathorax 

 with black bars ; pectus and legs with black mixed ; abdomen 

 white dorsally banded with brown. Fore wing silvery white, some 

 pale olive-green at middle of basal area and on medial, costal, and 

 inner areas ; some black suffusion on basal part of costal area defined 

 on outer side by the black antemedial line, which is interrupted 

 in the cell, then oblique, angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 ending at vein 1 ; medial line black, slightly sinuous, angled 

 outwards in the cell, then oblique and connected with the ante- 

 medial line by a streak in submedian fold ; a semiannulate black 

 mark on costa towards apex ; a conical brown patch on terminal 

 area from apex to tornus extending to the medial line, edged by 

 sinuous black lines and its upper edge emitting a striga at middle. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal half suffused with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area suffused with brown, a brown 

 discoidal spot, some black markings on apical area and a brown 

 subterminal spot in submedian fold. 



Hah. Brazil (Somwrr), 1 d , Sao Paulo (D. Jones), 2 J. 

 Exp. 16 millim. 



737 e. Afrida coagulata. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 24.) 



Afrida melicerta, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. ii. p. 350 9 ( n ec rf). 

 Afrida coagulata, Dyar, Insec. Inscit. Menstr. i. 3, p. 32 (1913); id. Pr. 

 ' U.S. Nat. Mus. ined. 



Head and thorax white ; antennae blackish ; palpi, pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen whitish suffused with fuscous. Fore wing silvery 

 white ; a subbasal black striga from costa with a cupreous tinge 

 beyond it before the antemedial' black line, which is angled outward 

 below costa, excurved below the cell and ends at vein 1 ; a double 

 medial black line from cell to inner margin, excurved below sub- 

 median fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; a conical patch from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, defined by black and filled in with 

 blackish, rather constricted below the costa and squarely truncate 

 below ; two oblique black stria? from postmedial part of costa ; 

 postmedial line double, black, arising at vein 6, indistinct and 

 diffused to vein 2, angled inwards just below submedian fold and 

 outwards at vein 1 ; terminal area suffused with brown and irrorated 

 with blackish, its inner edge running obliquely to apex and bent 



