AFETDA 



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Sect. I. Antennse of male bipectinate. 



A. {Afrida). Hind wing with tbe tornus somewhat lobed and clothed with 

 thick dark scales. 



735. Afrida tortriciformis. 



Afrida iortriciformis, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Ges. xiy. p. 30 (1886) • Kirby 

 Cat. Het. p. 378. ' ^' 



S . Grey-white ; antennae, i)ectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen blackish. Fore wing with dentate black antemedial 



line not reaching inner margin 

 and with black point on its 

 inner side below costa ; a fuscous 

 band just beyond middle defined 

 by waved black lines and tra- 

 versed by an indistinct waved 

 line, usually strongly contracted 

 below costa ; a black discoidal 

 spot ; some fuscous suffusion on 

 terminal area and a terminal series of black points, Sind wing 

 suffused with fuscous, the inner area clothed with thick black scales ; 

 the cilia black. 



Hah. Jamaica, Kingston {Cockerell), 1 S . Exp. 12 millim. 

 Type t in CoU. Staudinger. 



Fig. 256. — Afrida tortriciformis, (^ . 



B. (Neoselca). Hind wing normal. 



a. Fore wing with blackish medial band minuta. 



b. Fore wing with triangular patch on costa meliceria. 



736. Afrida minuta. 



Nola minuta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 140, pi. 13. f. 17 (1885) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 374. 



cJ . Head, tegulse, and patagia white ; palpi, antennae, and thorax 

 blackish ; legs black and white ; abdomen whitish, dorsally suffused 



w ith fuscous. Fore wing silvery 

 white ; the base of costa and 

 some basal points black; a dentate 

 subbasal line not reaching inner 

 margin ; a medial fuscous band, 

 defined by dentate black lines, 

 constricted in cell and traversed 

 by an indistinct waved line ; a 

 dark point at lower angle of cell ; 

 some diffused fuscous on terminal area, a black point on costa aa 

 oblique streak from apex, and traces of a subterminal waved line. 

 Hind wing white, tinged with fuscous towards termen ; an in- 

 distinct discoidal point. 



Hab. Costa Eica, Irazu (Rogers), 1 J type, Godman-Salviu Coll. 

 Exjp. 18 millim. 



Fig. 257. — Afrida minuta, ^ . 



