DIRPHIA. By Dr. M. Brandt. 
7B7 
D. picturata Schs. (116 a) is the most similar to oridocea, of a much darker brown ground colour, the picturatn. 
very irregularly shaped basal area darker pink, the yellowish-white discal spot with generally 3 dots behind 
it on vein 5 and often a strigiform spot below the median yein before it with a silvery gloss; in the lighter 
pinkish-brown subterminal area the very distinct subterminal line broken up into dark brown spots. Hindwing 
basally pinkish carmine with a small pink-ringed discal spot and 2 strong dark arcuate lines behind it. Rio 
de Janeiro. 
II. rosea-group (Rhodormiscodes Pack.). 
D. rosea Drc. (114 g). In the blackish-brown thorax long stiff white hairs are intermixed; abdomen rosea. 
orange, above with black rings, a black lateral line, below it white with black spots. Forewing basally below 
the cell with a large blackish-brown spot, above it pinkish-whitish, striped brownish; at the cell end a distally 
mostly three-pronged, white-edged discal spot; the oblique black postmedian line from 6 to the inner margin, 
inside bordered with pinkish-white, outside the broad brown subterminal band distally bordered with pinkish- 
white, subapically at the costal margin a large blackish-brown trapezoid or triangular spot. Hindwing pinkish 
blackish, basally pinkish carmine with a large hazy blackish discal spot and 2 bands behind it. Fringe at the 
ends of the veins speckled lighter. Mexico; a most variable species. 
D. ninfa Schs. is extremely similar; head and palpi more orange, the abdomen lacks the black lateral ninfa. 
line. On the forewing the upper edge of the blackish-brown basal spot is somewhat rounder, the distal one on 
the submedian fold interrupted inwards; before and below' the discal streak one grey spot each. Expanse of 
wings: 52 mm. Described according to a from Jalapa (Mexico). 
D. lateniedia Die. (114 g) is similar, larger, browner, the blackish-brown discal spot considerably larger, latemcilia. 
basally produced on the median vein; the transverse lines are composed of black internerval lunae, scaled 
orange on the averted sides, then bordered with whitish; terminal area as in rosea. Hindwing brown, without 
any pink, the strong postmedian line is distally broadly edged with whitish. Abdomen beneath brownish- 
black. Described from Ecuador, also from the Amazons, Bolivia, and Peru. 
D. fusina Schs. differs from rosea in the deep pink ventral side; thorax and abdomen above as in rosea, tusina. 
separated from the likewise similar lateniedia by the more pinkish-brown wings, especially in the median area 
of the forewing which shows a black dot at the base of the costal margin, the transverse lines as in latemedia 
intensely scaled orange; the apical costal marginal spot is small. Hindwing as far as the postmedian line purple 
red, behind it lighter; the large round black discal spot touches the thick postmedian line. Expanse of wings: 
61 mm. Tuis, Costa Rica. 
D. placida Schs. (114 h) is likewise similar, but the abdomen is orange beneath, the white tarsi with ptacida. 
black rings. Forewing brownish grey, the basal inner marginal spot above straightlv cut off. outside bordered 
by 3 black crescentiform bows; the crescentifoim postmedian line is straight between 2 and the inner margin, 
the apical spot triangular, bordered with white, the large brown discal spot inwards bordered with black. 
Hindwdng brownish, at the inner margin darker, otherwise as in latemedia from which the species chiefly 
differs in the abdomen being orange beneath. French Guiana. 
B. lulesa Schs. (114 h) is likewise aliied to latemedia. but the ground colour is more olive grey, inter- lulesa. 
mixed with single red-brown hairs, the black crescents of the transverse lines bordered by dark yellow scales; 
the brown discal spot is bordered with black and dark yellow: subterminal line as in the other species, the 
subapical spot is a triangular shadow. Hindwing whitish with a brown marginal band and subterminal line, 
the latter black towards the inner margin; costal margin and disc as far as the postmedian line flesh-coloured 
pink, base, cell and inner margin with long pink hairs, at the cell end with a large round black ocellus centred 
with light blue; postmedian line thick, black, incurved below the costal margin; marginal veins dark yellow. 
Argentina (Lules). 
IIS. sabina-group \Molippa Wkr.). 
B. sabina Wkr. (114 h). This group differs from the preceding one merely in the somewhat more sabina. 
produced apex of the A forewing and in the thoracal hair being intermixed with stiff black oar-shaped hairs. 
A most variable and common species of a wide range. Forewing yellowish-white, more or less densely strewn 
and mixed with ochreous, brown and grey. Marking exactly that of the rosea- group, i. e. the base of the inner 
margin with a large somew'hat darker spot, transverse lines as in latemedia composed of lunulae, double; discal 
spot of a most variable shape and size; the dark apical costal marginal spot outside bidentate. Hindwdng with 
a most variable discal spot, 2 dentate more or less black lines behind it, and orange veins in the marginal area. 
Type from Brazil. - rtibasa Maass. (114 h) show's a very clear marking, a very dark basal inner-marginal spot nibasa. 
of the forewing, and very distinct, narrow, deep black bands on the hindw ing. Type from Mexico. —- simillima shnillima. 
Jones (122 e) are specimens in which the black bands of the hindwing are said to bend down anal wards, whereas 
in sabina they end straight. According to Jones’ observations, simillima is yielded from yellow' larvae irrorated 
