virbia. 321 



Underside of fore wing with an orange fascia below the cell, extending 

 into end lit' cell and to just beyond it, confluenl on basal area with 

 an orange fascia on inner margin extending to beyond middle. 



TTab. Peru, La Oroya (Oc/cenden) in Coll. Kothschild. Exp. 

 L!l> 28 niillini. 



*lo9(w\ Virbia epione. (Plate LVI. tig'. 27. 1 

 Virbia epione, Druce, A. M.N.H. (8) viii. p. 140 (1911). 



6. Head and thorax dull red-brown; abdomen black-brown 

 with yellow lateral stripes with blackish streaks below them, the 

 ventral surface pale red-brown. Pore wing red-brown. Hind wing 

 black-brown with yellow Eascia on inner margin extending totomus 

 and yellow fascia through the cell to well beyond it, bifurcate at 

 extremity. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown with yellow- 

 fascia below median nervurc expanding into a patch in and below 

 end of cell. 



Rah. S.E. Peru, S. Domingo {Oclcenden), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Joicey. Exp. 28 millim. 



*1596 t /. Virbia parva. 



Virbia parva, Schaus, P. Z.S. 1892, p. 285; id. Am. Lcp. p. 15, pi. 2. 



r. 15. 

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



Stoll. 



J. Head and thorax red-brown; abdomen black-brown with 

 lateral orange stripes, the ventral surface grey-brown. Fore wing 

 deep red-brown with a minute orange discoidal spot. Hind wiwj; 

 black-brown; a broad orange fascia from base through the cell 

 extending to well beyond it and to just below it where its lower 

 edge is slightly sinuous ; an orange fascia on inner margin, con- 

 tinent at base with the discal fascia, the black ending in a point in 

 submedian interspace near base. Underside of fore wing with a 

 slight orange fascia on median nervure and discoidal spot.^ 



5. Underside of fore wing with a broad orange fascia in and 

 below the cell, expanding into a patch beyond the cell extending 

 down to vein 2. 



II, ih. Ecuador, Quevedo (Buckwald), Chimbo {JRoscnhpn/) in 

 Coll. Kothschild ; Peru. Exp., 6 24-26, $ 36 millim. 



*159G l\ Virbia affiiris. (Plate LVI. fig. 28.) 

 Virbia affinis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 78 (1910). 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown, the last with 

 yellow lateral stripes. Fore wing fuscous brown with a very faint 

 yellowish streak on median nervure expanding into an elliptical 

 patch beyond end of cell, a minute yellow discoidal point. Hind 

 wing jrellow, the costal area black-brown; a broad terminal blaek- 



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