. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. AFETDA 349 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
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. AFETDA 349 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. 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. , 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. E
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