VIKBIA. — ANTIOTRICnA. 201 



subcostal nervure to below mediiiii nervure and from base to near 

 terraen ; a short streak on base of inner margin. Underside of fore 

 wing with orange patch occupying the cell and dilated beyond it 

 between veins 3 and 7. 



Hab. Brazil, 1 5 type, Sao Paulo {Jones), 2 J . Exp., J -J-O, 

 $ oG millim. 



1598. Virbia subapicalis. (Plate XLII. fig. 6.) 



PhcBochUena mhapicalis, Wlk. ii. 470 (1854) ; Kirbj, Cat. Ilet. p. 400. 

 Bepara egaca, Wlk. .xxxi. 14^ (18tJ4). 



Dark olive-brown ; abdomen shot with blue. Hind wing shot 

 with blue; a large yellow subapical patch extending from just 

 below costa to vein 2. Underside of fore wing with broad rather 

 irregular medial orange baud from just below costa to inner 

 margin. 



Hab. Amazons, Ega {Bates), 2 c? , 2 $ , type and type egaca ; 

 Ecuador (i^«c7u?ey), 1 5. Exp., c? 32, $ 4G millim. 



1599. Virbia hypophasa, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 25.) 

 Virbia luteilinca, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. ii. p. 405 (nee Wlk.). 



(S . Head and thorax dark olive-brown; abdomen black, with 

 orange lateral stripes. Eore wing dark olive-brown. Hind wing 

 orange-yeUow, with black terminal band expanding somewhat 

 towards apex. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Santa Clara Valley, 1200 feet {Zurcher), 1 c? 

 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 30 millim. 



1600. Virbia xanthopleura. 



Ftychoglcne xanthopleura, Hmpsu. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1898, p. 243, pi. 17. 

 ff. 1, 15. 



S . Black-brown ; orange stripes below the wings and on sides of 

 abdomen. Fore wing slightly irrorated Avith ochreous scales. 

 Hind wing with orange-yellow fascia in and below ceU to just 

 beyond its extremity, and a slight streak on inner margin. 



$ . Abdomen with the orange lateral stripes extending to middle ; 

 hind wing with slight orange streaks at base, in cell, and on inner 

 margin. 



Hab. Grenada (//. H. Smith), 4 d, 2 $ , type. Exp., c? 30, 

 2 34 millim. 



Genus ANTIOTRICHA. 



Typo. 

 Aniiotricha, Feld. Eeis. Nov. p. 2 (1874), non descr iutegra. 



Proboscis fully developed ; pal))i jiorroct to just beyond frons ; antonn;r of 

 fiMiKile ciliated ; eyes small ; head and tliorax clot lied with rovigli hair; build 

 slei der ; tibije with the spurs short, hind tibiic with the medial spurs absent. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; G from 



