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DIRPHIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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D. speciosa Or. (= quadricolor Wkr.) (116 c) is an uncommonly variable species. Head and thorax speciosa. 
varying between rusty yellow and brown, abdomen black with white rings and a rusty yellow anal tuft. Forewing 
in the type pinkish carmine, with black veins, a more or less distinct blackish postmedian nebulous band and a 
long white, interruptedly black-filled Y-spot at the cell-end, below which there is often another white sagittiform 
streak on 3. Colouring variable; another form: brunnea f.n. (116 c) exhibits instead of the pink colour a brunnm. 
light coffee-brown colour, at the margins often more or less hued with pink, but apparently it flies together 
with the typical form without any transitions. Costa Rica to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, also in Trinidad, 
flavoscripta Dogn ., described according to a $ from Ecuador with an expanse of 75 mm, probably belongs to flavosrripia. 
this species, too. Fore wing chestnut-brown, at the costal margin strewn with yellow, the continuation of the Y, 
situate on the cross-vein in the direction to the costal margin, is yellow, the other parts as in the type black 
and white; abdomen above black, without the white rings, beneath brown. The Berlin Museum owns a chestnut- 
brown $ from Chuchuras, Peru, which likewise shows an entirely black abdomen without white rings, but an 
entirely white Y as in the type. In a carmine $ from Rio Pachitea, Porto Alegre, only the first ring is broadly 
edged with white, all the others are quite black. avenata /. n. (116 c) I denominate a form from Chiriqui. avenaia. 
Panama, in which the veins of both wings are of the ground-colour, not prominently black. Ground-colour 
rusty brown, with a rosy-red hue at all the margins. Hindwing with a thick white discal streak. Type in the 
Berlin Museum. It may be a distinct species. 
D. consaepta sp. n. (116 c) is very similar to the brown forms of speciosa , but at once discernible by consaepta. 
white fringes speckled black at the ends of the veins. The brown ground-colour shows a more olive yellowish 
tint; the blackish postmedian nebulous stripe is situate nearer to the margin and mostly more prominent; 
the discal Y is creamy white, much thicker and proximally more deeply and acute-angnlarly notched, the part 
resting on the end of the median vein and vein 3 is very broad. Hindwing in the proximal inner-marginal half 
with somewhat lighter reddish hair, the nebulous stripe broad and distinct, beneath with a white costal-marginal 
stripe and white dusting in the disc and behind the postmedian stripe. Body as in speciosa. Types: 1 from 
Icononzo near Pandi (Colombia) in the Coll. Hopp, Charlottenburg; 1 from Chaco, La Paz (Bolivia) in the 
Coll. Bang-Haas. 
D. flavodiscata Dogn. (116 d). Forewing olive yellowish, in the interspaces strewn with blackish hair- flavodiscata. 
scales which are intensified in the first and second thirds to nebulous transverse bands, the posterior band 
somewhat concave towards the margin between veins 2 and 3; veins black, at the margin thickened into small 
triangles; at the cell-end a large yellow spot. Hindwing the same, but without the yellow cellular spot. Ab¬ 
domen with yellow and black rings, basally more intensely black, the anus red. Colombia, Bolivia. 
D. erythropus Maass. (116 d) is similar; on the forewing the interior transverse band is situate behind, erythropus. 
not before, the white (not yellow) angular spot, the exterior band is nearer to the margin and outside broadly 
bordered with white. Legs rosy-red. Ecuador. 
D. zeta Berg is distinguished by long red-brown antennae; thorax blackish-brown mixed with yellow, zda. 
abdomen blackish-brown with rusty yellow segmental margins and a yellow anus. Forewing reddish-yellow, 
densely striated and strewn with black or blackish-brown, the whole cell filled with black, outside and below 
marked with a black, white-edged Z. Hindwing likewise Isabel-coloured, only at the margin striated blackish- 
brown, at the cell-end with a large round black macula; fringes in both wings light brownish. Expanse of wings: 
105 mm. According to a <$ from Buenos Aires (Sierra Chica), Argentina. The species having remained unknown 
to me, I can only insert it here provisionally; it may belong rather to Ithomisa or Eudyaria. 
D. lavema Drc. probably belongs to the same group. As I could not examine the species myself, I cannot laverna. 
tell whether it belongs to Dihirpa next to litura owing to the white basal cellular spot. Fore wing semidia- 
phanous black, densely strewn with yellow, with black veins, a yellow longitudinal spot behind the base of 
the cell, and a yellow angular spot at the cell-end; the white fringe is speckled with black on the ends of the 
veins. Costal margin of hindwing beneath yellow. The black body is covered with long yellow hair, the collar 
yellow, abdomen with black and yellow segments, anus and legs red. Antennae black. Ecuador. albomaculata albomacu- 
Dogn. is somewhat smaller, blacker, and more densely scaled; the spots in the cell are of a pure white, not 
yellow, the discal spot divided into two parts or almost divided, also on the hindwing an intense discal spot. 
Legs and anus light pink. Loja (Ecuador). 
D. monticola Zerny (118 e) is rather isolated, but surely no Heliconisa. Forewing varying between monticola. 
ochreous and olive brown, with fine blackish veins; a white postmedian arched line parallel to the margin bends 
inwards above the inner-marginal vein and extends to the base of the costal margin, without reaching it; at 
the cell-end a whitish small, brown-centred oval spot. Hindwing darkend towards the margin with a rather 
inconspicuous lighter submarginal line. Thorax darker than forewing, abdomen above black, laterally and at 
the anus rusty red. The $ is darker. Larva black, with black spines and a red-brown head, it lives on Rapanea 
flocculosa; the pupa lies on the ground, without a web, amidst dry grass in a hollow made by the larva. The 
A imago flies in the afternoon, it also comes to the lantern at night. South Brazil. 
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