lUU AECTIADiE. 



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. Mexico, Jalapa (Triijillo), 2 <5 , Coatepec {Brooks), 1 ^y 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Eay.^ S 38, $ bQ millim. 



1596. Virbia medarda. 



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



p. 399. 

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

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



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

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



f. 15. 

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

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



(^ . 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 

 black band expanding to- 

 wards tornus into a patch 

 extending along vein 1 

 Underside of fore wing with wedge-] 



Fig. 112. — Virbia medarda, J 



more or less towards base 



shaped orange patch occupying the cell. 



2 . Fore wing with the orange patch on underside extending 

 bej-ond and below the cell ; hind wing in Venezuelan specimens with 

 orange spot on termen at vein 1. 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Rumeli), 2 d" , 1 $ , Tabasco (ff. II. 

 Smith), 2 (S ; Guatemala, Yera Paz {Champion), 2 S, 1 $> 

 NiCAKAGiJA, Chontales {Janson), 1 c? ; Panama, Bugaba {Champion, 

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

 {Tylecote), 1 S ; Colombia, Sta. Marta, 1 5; Venezuela, 1 S •, 

 1 2 type mentiens-, Amazoks ; Peru, type t parva in Coll. Schaus. 

 Exp., S 30, 2 42 millim. 



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



Phcsochlana divisa, Wlk. ii . 4B9 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 399. 



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

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

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



