VIKB1 A. 319 



point. Underside of fore wing with wedge-shaped yellow fascia in 

 and just below the cell expanding below and beyond end of cell 

 where its extremity is rounded, sonic yellow at base of inner 

 margin. 



Huh. Guatemala, Vera Paz, Panzos (Champion), 1 § , Godrnan- 

 Salvin Coll.; Colombia; Trinidad, Caparo (Birch), type t y 

 in Coll. Joicey. Exp. 12 millim. 



1596c. Virbia phalangia, n. sp. (Plate LVI. fig. 2:!.) 



Virbia minuta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 144 (nee Feld.). 

 Virbia medarda, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. Hi. p. 200 (part), nee Stoll. 



d 1 . Head and thorax rufous; pectus orange-yellow at sides; 

 abdomen with dorsal black fascia with waved edges, the sides 

 orange-yellow, the ventral surface red-brown. Fore wing uniform 

 rufous. Hind wing black ; a broad orange-yellow wedge-shaped 

 fascia from below the costa to below the cell from base to near 

 termen, and an orange-yellow fascia on inner margin. Underside 

 of fore wing fuscous brown shading to rufous on apical area, a 

 rather diffused orange-yellow fascia in the cell from hase to near 

 lower angle ; hind wing with the orange-yellow extending to the 

 costa at base. 



2- Underside of fore wing with wedge-shaped orange-yellow 

 patch in and just below the cell to well beyond it where it extends 

 to just below vein 2, its outer edge obliquely curved. 



Sab. MEXICO, Vera Cruz, Cordova (Eumeli), 2 <_> , 1 2 type. 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp., 6 .'30, 2 38 millim. 



I.jQG^. Virb'a rosenbergi. (Plate LYI. tig. 24.) 



Virbia luteilinea, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 143 (part), nee Wlk. 

 Virbia medada, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iii. p. 200 (part), nee. 



Stoll. 

 Virbia rosenbergi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 77 (1910). 



c? . Head and thorax dull red-brown slightly irrorated with yel- 

 lowish ; abdomen dorsally black-Drown, the sides yellow, the ventral 

 surface reddish brown. Fore wing dull red-brown irrorated with 

 3 r ellow. Hind wing orange-yellow, the costal area black except 

 towards base ; a black terminal band not reaching tornus and 

 expanding widely below vein 2 with irregular inner edge. Under- 

 sicle of fore wing with wedge-shaped yellow patch from base through 

 the cell to beyond it where it expands. 



2 . Underside of fore wing with the yellow patch extending to 

 nearer termen and with rounded outer edge. 



Hah. Mexico, Teapa, Tabasco (H. H. Smith), 2 <3 ; Nica- 

 ragua, Vera Paz (Champion), 1 S , Chontales (Jansoii), 1 6 , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Colombia, \i. Dagua (Rosenberg), type t 2 

 in Coll. Rothschild; Ecuador, Paramba, S. Javier, Bulim. Exp., 

 6 32, 2 42 millim. 



