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Mr, G. F. Hampson's 
Olive-yellow thickly irrorated and striated with fuscous. Fore- 
wing with traces of waved ante- and postmedial lines with black 
specks on the veins, the former with an obscure rufous patch inside 
it on inner area, the latter bent inwards at vein 2 and with obscure 
rufous patches beyond it, traces of a submarginal series of specks 
and more prominent marginal series. Hindwing with obscure 
discocellular mark ; traces of a waved postmedial line with black 
specks at the veins and obscure rufous patches beyond it ; a 
marginal series of black specks. Underside grey thickly irrorated 
with fuscous and with prominent black cell-spots. 
Hab, Dalhousie (Harford). Exp. 60 mm. Type in 
B. M. 
Genus Afrena, nov. 
Type. A. esmeralda, Hmpsn. 
Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint reaching well beyond the frons and 
thickly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; antennae of male 
thickened and flattened ; abdomen without dorsal tufts ; hindtibiae 
with two pairs of spurs. Forewing somewhat acute at apex ; vein 
3 from angle of cell ; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hindwing with the 
frenulum absent ; the outer margin angled at vein 4 ; veins 3, 4 
from lower angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 
Afrena esmeralda, n. sp. 
^ . Brilliant emerald-green ; palpi black and grey ; antennae 
{^t'cLf(,]^ Afrena esmeralda, 
ochreous. Forewing with the costa whitish speckled with black ; 
an indistinct slightly oblique yellowish-green antemedial line; 
