G5S ATJCTIAD.E. 



and defined on inner side by an irregular "black line, oblique and 

 sinuous from apex to the postmedial line beyond lower angle of 

 cell and bent outwards below vein 2. Hind wing white tinged 

 with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown ; a dark discoidal 

 point. 



Ilab. Argentina, Salta Prov., Metan {Dinelli). Exp. 20 

 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing 

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*737 h. Afrida melenita. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 27.) 



Afrida mele7iita, Dogn. Hut. Nouv. Am. Sud, ii. p. 13 (1911). 



d . . Head and thorax glossy creamy white ; palpi and a patch on 

 frons blackish ; antennae brown, the shaft ringed with white ; 

 pectus and legs suffused with brown ; abdomen white suffused with 

 brown except at base of dorsum. Pore wing glossy creamy white ; 

 a black streak on base of costa ; a rather triangular fuscous brown 

 patch on costa just beyond middle, defined on inner side by an 

 oblique black line ; a black mark on costa towards apex with a 

 white point on it ; the terminal area with a triangular fuscous 

 brown patch from apex to tornus, its edges irregular and with 

 slight black marks on them ; some white marks on termen except 

 towards apex ; cilia brown with some white above tornus. Hind 

 wing white ; a slight brown discoidal spot ; the terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; cilia white, tinged with brown in parts. 

 Underside of fore wing red-brown ; hind wing white, the costal 

 area red-brown, a brown discoidal spot, the terminal area with 

 some brown spots. 



Hab. Pit. GriANA, St. Laurent Maroni, type t 6 in Coll. 

 Dognin. Exp. 14 millim. 



*737 i. Afrida zolda. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 28.) 



Afrida zolda, Dyar, Insec. Insert. Menstr. i. 3, p. 33 (1913) ; id. Pr. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. ined. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with fuscous ; antennae 

 and palpi blackish ; legs suffused with fuscovis, the tarsi ringed 

 with white. Pore wing pure white; the costal edge black towards 

 base ; antemedial line black, angled outwards in and below the 

 cell and inwards above vein 1 ; a blackish spot at middle of costa 

 and two points in the cell ; postmedial line black, angled outwards 

 below costa, then rather oblique and sinuous ; a black point on 

 postmedial part of costa with an inwardly oblique striga beyond it; 

 terminal area purplish brown irrorated with blackish and defined on 

 inner side by an irregular black line, oblique from apex to the 

 postmedial line beyond lower angle of cell and bent outwards below 

 submedian fold ; traces of a blackish subterminal line on the brown 

 area. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown. 



