DIHIRPA; PHRICODIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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H. taglia Schs. (117 C c). Forewing marked almost exactly like gschwandneri, the antemedian line taglia. 
likewise oblique, the discal spot in its upper portion thicker, with a yellow central streak, the lower portion 
very short and narrow. Hindwing as in ruscheweyhi, the eye much larger and with a broader yellow border. 
Abdomen red, beneath brown, in the $ with lateral white hair. South-Eastern Brazil (S. Paulo). 
H. perdix Maass. (117 C d) is marked like the preceding ones, but lighter brown, the strongly notched perdix. 
transverse lines on both sides broadly bordered with whitish or pinkish-white; subterminal area darker brown 
in contrast with the marginal area which is mixed with whitish; discal streak in the upper portion intensely 
edged with white; adjoining to the median vein and vein 2 an intense, horizontal black V-mark. Eye of hindwing 
smaller, subterminal shadow very broad. Fringe speckled yellowish-white and blackish-brown. Brazil (Novo 
Friburgo; Joinville). 
H. albipellis sp. n. (117 C d) is still larger than gschwandneri and very different. Forewing sooty blackish; albipell 
both the transverse lines of the forewing whitish-grey, feebly bent, the posterior line distally angled on 7, dentate 
between 2 and the inner margin, subterminal line defined towards the somewhat lighter marginal area; veins 
of marginal area fine black. Hindwing somewhat more scantily scaled, the discal eye oval, small, black with 
a white central streak in a yellow ring, behind it a dark undulate postmedian line, then a white notched 
subterminal line. Abdomen black, centre of ventrum sooty grey, sides in the $ with a long and dense cover 
of yellowish-white hair. Type: 1 $ from the upper Madre de Dio, South Peru, in the Coll. Bang-Haas. 
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18. Genus: Dillirpa gen.nov. 
Only 1 species with broad wings; forewing with a characteristic course of vein 7 arising far off from 6 
and far before the cell-end from the upper cell-margin. On the hindwing 5 and 6 arise nearly or quite from the 
same place; thorax with very long hair. Palpi well developed. Anterior tibiae with a well developed epiphysis 
attaining almost the length of the tibia. 
D. litura Wkr. (= marginella Wkr.) (117 C e). Forewing olive brown, in some places, especially in the litura. 
costal posterior portion of the median area with ochreous hair; in the base of the cell a thick white longitudinal 
streak and at the cell-end a white discal streak, the upper end of which turns back a little; between the cell-end 
and the margin a deeply notched line distally bordered somewhat whitish; cell generally darkened, behind its 
end a very faint median shadow. Base of hindwing with light ochreous hair, the postmedian line less strongly 
notched; the white fringe on the ends of the veins mottled black. Abdomen black, on the posterior segments 
with ochreous rings of increasing width. The $ is less scaled and lighter, greyer. Colombia. 
19. Genus: I®lir!co«iIa Hb. 
Very similar to Dirphia and of a scarcely different habitus, but separated by the remote origin of 
6 and 7 on the forewing and of 5, 6 and 7 on the hindwing. Most of the species are characterized by the presence 
of 2 small discal spots of the forewing, one being white, the other one. below it black. The type was considered 
to be avia Stoll, but as this species is by no means separable from Dirphia, we choose as type Cramer’s species 
hircia. 
Type: Ph. hircia Or. 
I. hircia-group. 
Ph. hircia Cr. (117 C e). Most variable, lighter or darker brown, or pinkish-brown with 2 strong transverse hircia. 
stripes bordered with white on the averted sides, the posterior stripe also proximally white, the anterior one 
bent, mostly subcostally angled, the posterior one almost straight; in the median area, which is sometimes 
feebly darkened, in the upper cell-angle a white discal spot, below it a black one; the darker subterminal line 
projects in a strong bow towards the margin, the farthest between 2 and 4. Hindwing with a hazy black discal 
spot and 2 blackish arcuate lines behind it. Fringe white. Abdomen ochreous with black rings. Mexico to 
Surinam and Colombia. — rosacea /. n. (117 C e) are distinctly pink specimens from Mexico. — Very similar rosacea. 
is arcaei /. n. (117 C f) of which Mr. Talbot of the Hill Museum kindly gave me a photo of the type, which most arcaci. 
accurately corresponds with some specimens from Panama (Lino), and to some extent also with Colombian 
specimens from Muzo. The colour is a yellowish brown, the transverse lines are straighter, scarcely or not bent 
below the costal margin, the subterminal markings being so very distinct in the nomenclatural type are almost 
extinct, only marked by a somewhat darker marginal area. The type in which, moreover, 6 and 7 of the 
forewing are stalked, is very similar to Dirphia parallela (118 e), so that it seems to me to be almost the same 
species. — obtusa Wkr. (117 D a). Dr. Jordan kindly sent me a sketch of the type of this almost unknown obtusa. 
species; a $ which we figure, from the Berlin Museum, seems to me to belong to it. Accordingly, it is so closely 
