. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 350 AECTIADiE. Subsp. 1. Smaller : fore wing with the medial band not con- stricted in cell. Hah. Grenada, Balthazar {H. H. Smith), I (S, 1 $. Exj). 14 millim. 737. Afrida melicerta. Nola melicerta, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 140, pi. 8. f. 18 (1885); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 374. cj', Palpi, frons, and antennae black; vertex of head and thorax pure white; pectus, legs, and abdomen blackish. Fore wing silvery white ; a triangular black patch on base of costa, with an oblique striga beyond it below the cell;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 350 AECTIADiE. Subsp. 1. Smaller : fore wing with the medial band not con- stricted in cell. Hah. Grenada, Balthazar {H. H. Smith), I (S, 1 $. Exj). 14 millim. 737. Afrida melicerta. Nola melicerta, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 140, pi. 8. f. 18 (1885); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 374. cj', Palpi, frons, and antennae black; vertex of head and thorax pure white; pectus, legs, and abdomen blackish. Fore wing silvery white ; a triangular black patch on base of costa, with an oblique striga beyond it below the cell; a dentate antemedial line from cell to inner margin, a triangular patch on middle of costa, and a rounded patch on inner margin with two arms extending towards cell; a spot with while point on it on costa towards apex ; a fuscous triangular patch on termen,with irregular black marks on its edges extending nearly to cell. Hind wing white, with indistinct discoidal spot; some fuscous at apex and traces of a subterminal line. 2 . Hind wing more suffused with fuscous. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the subbasal patch on costa and sometimes also the medial patch filled in with olive-yellow or green, the space between the double lines on inner area not filled in with black. Ab. 2. Pore wing with the medial patch on costa large and quadrate, with a black streak on its lower edge connecting it with the triangular terminal patch ; the subbasal striga connected with the antemedial line and forming a prominent loop.—Sao Paulo, Coll. Schaus; Bolivia. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (TrujiUo), 2 $ , Orizaba, Oaxaca; Costa Rica {Underwood, Bogers), 1 d^, 1 $ type, Godraan-Salvin Coll.; Brazil, Castro Parana, Sao Paulo ; Bolivia, Chaco {Garlepp), 1 (S . Exp. 18-24 millim. Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 738. Afrida ciliata. Nola minuta, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 140 (part). S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white. Pore wing white suffused with pale orange-yellow ; the costal edge black towards base;
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