200 



AECTIADJi;. 



fascia on costal area except at base, indented before apex and 

 narrowing at apex, and triangular black patch with sinuous edges 

 from near base on vein 1 to termen between veins 1 and 5, leaving 

 a spot on termen above vein 1 . 



2 . Hind wing with three orange spots on black patch on 

 termen. 



Hab. jVIesico, Jalapa (Tritjillo), 2 c? , Coatepec (Brools), 1 J, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. E.r2)., d 38, $ 56 millim. 



1596. Virbia medarda. 



Noctua medarda, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 345, F (1782) ; Kirby, Cat. Het 



p. 399. 

 Virhia onentiens, Wlk. ii. 471 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 400. 

 Tenia mbmta, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 105. f. 3 (1874) ; Dnice, Biol Centr - 



Am., Het. i. p. 144; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 400. 

 Virhia parva, Sebaus, P. Z.' S. 1892, p. 285 ; id. Am. Lep. p. 15. pi 2. 



f. 15. 1 1 1 ■ 



Virhia luteilinea, Druce, Biol. Ceatr.-Am., Het. i. \). 143 (nee Wlk.). 

 Josiodes inversa, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p. 14 (1884) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 295. 



d" . Head and thorax olive-brown ; neck with a few orange 

 scales : pectus with orange stripe below wings ; abdomen black, 



with orange lateral stripes, 

 the ventral surface olive- 

 brown. Fore wing olive- 

 brown with dark irrora- 

 tion. Hind wing orange, 

 with black fascia on cosia 

 _^ except at base ; a terminal 



i"*"^ black band expanding to- 



Fig. U2.— Virbia medarda, (S . \. wards tornus into a patch 



extending along vein 1 

 more or less towards base. Underside of fore wing with wedge- 

 shaped orange patch occupying the cell. 



2 . Fore wing with the orange patch on underside extending 

 beyond and below the cell ; hind wing in Yenezuclan specimens with 

 orange spot on termen at vein 1. 



Bab. Mexico, Vera Cruz {RumeU), 2 d" , 1 $ , Tabasco {IT. II. 

 SmitJi), 2 d ; Guatemala, Vera Paz (Chamjiion), 2 (^ , 1 J; 

 NiCAKAGUA, Chontales {Janson), 1 S ; Panama, Bugaba {Champion, 

 J. J. Wallcer), 2 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll., Chiriqui, Cana Mines 

 {Tylecote), 1 J ; Colombia, Sta. Marta, 1 $; Venezuela, 1 J, 

 1 $ type mentiens; Amazoks ; Peru, tj^pe f j^ctrva in Coll. Schaus. 

 Ea-j}., d 30, ? 42 millim. 



1597. Virbia divisa. (Plate XLII. fig. 24.) 

 PlmocUana divisa, Wlk. ii . 4(i9 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 399. 



Head and thorax dark olive-brown ; abdomen black, with lateral 

 orange stripes, the ventral surface olive-brown. Fore wing dark 

 olive-brown. Hind wing black, with orange fascia extending from 



