472 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



3. VlRBIA NOTATA. 



Nigro-fusca; pectus albidum; tarsi intermedii albi ; alee anlica 

 basi biguttatce, gutta \a rufa, 2a flava ; posticce aurato-Jlavce, 

 nigro marginalise. 



Blackish brown with a slight bronze tinge. Palpi and antennae 

 black. Proboscis testaceous. Pectus whitish. Middle tarsi white. 

 Fore wings with a dull red spot at the base occupying half the 

 breadth from the hind border and adjoining a yellow spot which 

 is shorter but of equal breadth. Hind wings gilded yellow with broad 

 blackish brown borders which are widest at the tips and taper to- 

 wards the inner margin where they disappear. Length of the body 

 4^- lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 



4. VlRBIA SUBMACULA. 





Nigro-fusca ; antenna nigra, nitentes ; abdomen et pedes subtus 

 albida ; alee anticce subtus fascia obliqua subarcuata abbreviata 

 albida ; posticce albida margine lato nigro-fusco. 



Blackish brown. Antennae black, shining. Abdomen and legs 

 whitish beneath. Fore wings beneath with an oblique slightly 

 curved whitish band which does not extend to the borders. Hind 

 wings whitish with a very broad blackish brown border which is 

 narrower and more clearly defined beneath than above. Length of 

 the body 4 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



a. ? From M. Becker's collection. 



Genus 76. SPIEIS. 



Corpus gracile. Palpi capite breviores, supra recurvi, subsqua- 

 mosi ; articulus lus incurvus, 2o duplo longior; 2us et 3us aequales, 

 graciliores ; 3us ovato-conicus. Proboscis capite vix longior. An- 

 tennas maris pectinatae, fcemince simplices. Alae anticae oblongae 

 subelliptico-truncatae. Pedes mediocres; tibiae posteriores quadri- 

 calcaratae. Larvae graminivoras, subdiales, ohscurae, vittis dilutioribus 

 aut coloratis. Pupa contracta,/<Km£w# ventricosa. 



Spiris et Coscinia, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 169. 

 Eulepia, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 91. 



