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DIRPHIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
radiata. 
dukinfieldi 
arnariUa. 
menander. 
rcducta. 
carminata. 
niepclti. 
zikani. 
agis. 
V. menander-group. 
D. radiata Dogn. (116 d). Antennae ochreous, body dark brown, thorax with a white transverse stripe, 
abdomen with ochreous-red bands. Fore wing olive brown, with white veins, with a brown discal streak which 
is bordered with white on both sides, and 2 double transverse lines, the anterior one straight, the posterior one 
somewhat undulated, interrupted by white and brown strewn internerval streaks which terminate at the margin 
in long white lance-points; margin strewn with white; fringe speckled brown and white. Hindwing somewhat 
lighter olive brown with traces of a rounded postmedian line, white marginal strewing and white ends of the 
veins. French Guiana. 
D. dukinfieldi Schs. (116 d) may not belong here, because the discocellular especially on the hindwing 
extends more obliquely and the lower cell-end is therefore more produced, as in the genus Heliconisa, to which 
the species, however, does not belong owing to the nor to Hemileuca as which it was described. Head arid 
thorax blackish, with olive yellow hair, patagia of $ deep black. Abdomen above bright ochreous, ventrum 
yellowish-grey, sides deep black with small white spots. Fore wing blackish-grey, veins orange, narrowly edged 
with light yellow; behind the cell with a white transverse line parallel to the margin; base of fringe narrowly 
orange, ends greyish-white. Hindwing the same, but duller, veins finer and more distinct, purely orange. 
Castro, Parana; Paraguay. 
D. aniarilla Schs. (116 e). Head black, collar dark pink; thorax greyish-brown, the patagia covering 
almost the whole thorax are dull yellow; abdomen above black, base and anus pink, ventrum orange with black 
spots, sides pink with black transverse lines. Wings dvdl yellow, forewing with dark violettish-grey veins, 
similar stripes at the costal margin, in and below the cell; violet antemedian and postmedian transverse 
shadows, and at the cell-end a dark red spot. Veins of hindwing in the distal half dark violettish-grey, at the 
cell-end a pink spot. Costa Rica, Volcano of Turrialba. 
D. menander Drc. (116 e). Body rusty yellow, abdomen with black segments. Forewing brownish red, 
with a white, slightly S-curved postmedian transverse stripe not reaching the costal margin, ending in the 
centre of the inner margin and being edged with jet-black on both sides; the veins distally to it whitish, on 
both sides broadly shaded with grey, fringe white. Hindwing blackish-grey with a white median line and white 
fringe. Nicaragua and Panama. reducta Her. db Hopp (116 e), a fine race from Western Colombia, differs 
in its brighter, more carmine ground-colour and the straight white median stripe which is only outside edged 
with black; the veins also in the hindwing of a broader and purer white, less shaded with grey. In the genital 
organs also somewhat different. 
B. carminata Schs. is light brown on the head and ventral side, thorax, base of abdomen and anus like 
the forewing light red, abdomen black, with brownish bands. Forewing in the distal half with fine white veins, 
with an antemedian and a postmedian transverse line divided into 3 black spots each and on both sides bordered 
with white. Hindwing basally light brown with a large dark spot at the cell-end and a dark, distally whitish- 
edged median band; distal half blackish-brown, with fine white veins. Mexico (Jalapa). — niepelti /. n. (117 a), 
from West Colombia (Bella Vista), is a magnificent, much larger and deeper carmine form. Head and ventrum 
are here deep black like the white-ringed abdomen; between the white veins in the marginal area there are 
towards the apex white internerval triangles, the largest between 7 and the apex; the uppermost of the post¬ 
median spots is divided into two parts. Base of hindwing and inner margins of both wings broadly haired 
rusty yellow, hindwing besides also in the basal half black, the black median band especially below the cell also 
proximally broadly bordered with white. 
D. zikani Schs. (117 a) is a smaller species which is difficult to range. Head brown, thorax brownish- 
grey, behind with pinkish-white hair; abdomen above black with white segmental lines and a red anus, beneath 
greyish-brown. Fore wing greyish-brown with blackish-brown transverse lines, the interior line vertical from 
the costal margin to the median vein, then turning to the inner margin, on both sides bordered with white, 
inside broader; at the cross-vein a black dot and a fine line excurved to vein 4; the black postmedian line is 
only inside bordered with white, from the costal margin to the centre of the inner margin; a whitish subterminal 
lunar line distally shaded with dark grey and vanishing between 4 and the apex. Hindwing greyish-brown, 
base of costal margin pink, with a fine dark discal line and a postmedian line from the costal margin to 4; fringe 
between the ends of the veins white. Passa Quatro, Minas, Brazil. 
VI. agis-group. 
D. agis Cr. (117 a) is a large species, forewing light brownish-grey, the ground of the wing almost 
invariably with a slight rosy tint or pinkish-brown, with distinct dark brown veins; the anterior transverse 
line, feebly convex towards the margin, is black, proximally white and extends, as in all its allies, from the base 
of the costal margin behind the interior third of the inner margin; cross-vein almost straight, below the centre 
only slightly flawed inwards; posterior transverse line straight or feebly concave towards the margin, slightly 
widened at the costal margin, blackish-brown, inside white, the traversing veins here orange, it cuts vein 4 
close at the lower cell-angle as far as % at most of its length; the darker subterminal shadow recedes to the 
transverse line between 4 and 5, between 2 and 4 farther towards the margin than between 5 and 7. Hindwing 
mostly somewhat darker smoke-brown. Abdomen orange, with black rings. Brazil to Peru. 
