PuM. 31. VIII. 1932. 
DISPHRAGIS. By Dr. M. Draitdt. 
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D. georgiana Dyar (150 b) is very similar to varia, distinguished by a more luniform, deeper black georgiana. 
discal lima, a more widened, less white, more greenish subapical spot which extends uninterrupted to the anal 
angle; the black subterminal internerval streaks are absent, the black marginal lunae consist of almost W- 
shaped zigzag streaks of a rather irregular shape. Larva very similar to that of varia, but tire white, brown- 
edged dorsal band is more uniformly broad; likewise on oaks. Georgia, Florida. 
D. barsypus Dyar is extraordinarily similar to georgiana and is scarcely a different species; the olive barsypus. 
green colour on the grey forewing is confined to a subapical blotch, a wedge-shaped spot above the anal angle 
and a spot below the cell-end; reddish-brown scales subbasally at the inner margin and in the cell-end, the 
black subterminal shadowy line is very strong, the black marginal line finely undulated, uniform and finely 
double. Hindwing dark grey, with white hair at the inner margin. Expanse of wings: 60 mm. North Carolina. 
D. rufinans Dyar is another ally from this difficult group; forewing grey with a reddish-brown -rufinans. 
spot near the base of the inner margin and another one in the lower half of the white subapical blotch; a fine 
black basal ray extends to the red-brown inner-marginal spot; the black double transverse lines are filled 
with a lighter colour, the black straight marginal striae in the lower half of the wing are scalariformly separated. 
Hindwing white, with a slight grey tinge at the apex and costal margin. Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Described 
according to a <$ from Colorado. 
D. simulans B. & Benj. pMP=b-) is regarded by the authors to be perhaps a race of rufinans ; forewing simulans. 
dark violettish-grey mixed with red-brown, especially before the anterior transverse line, the subapical shadow 
somewhat lighter, the black marginal line only single. The fringe of the white hindwing is speckled black on 
the ends of the veins. Described according to a from West Iowa. 
D. ditta B. & McD. (15Ub) is a smaller species with blackish-brown wings, somewhat lighter basally, ditta. 
the centre of the costal margin strewn with grey, with a fine black curved cell-end streak and an oblique white 
subapical blotch. Hindwing white with a narrow black marginal line and speckled fringe. Arizona. 
D. ruficornis Dyar has ash-grey forewings with 2 dentate blackish transverse lines which are bordered ruficornis. 
with whitish on the averted sides and extend similarly as in astarte and its allies; a curved black crescentiform 
streak at the cell-end is bordered with whitish on both sides; the apex is parted by a very indistinct blotch of 
a whitish colour, bordered above and inside by the beginning of a blackish undulate line in the shape of 
a semi-bow. Hindwing brownish-grey, a black spot parted by white is at the anal angle. Antennae bright 
reddish-yellow. Arizona. 
D. subrotata Harv. (— superba Edw.) (150 c). Forewing brownish ochreous, strewn with black basally subrotata. 
and at the inner margin, median area lightest, purely yellowish ochreous; before the black crescentiform streak 
at the cell-end a broad smoky blackish shadow begins, extending curved with an upward concavity to the anal 
angle; 3 black internerval streaks behind the slightly curved white subapical blotch; the black transverse lines 
are double as in the preceding species. Hindwing dingy whitish, smoky in the marginal half, with a white post¬ 
median line. New York, Missouri, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, Florida. — f. celtiphaga Harv. celtiphaga. 
is a smaller blackish olive grey form with a narrower white subapical oblique streak and a somewhat less distinct 
marking. 
D. agapa Schs. is very closely allied to subrotata (150 c) and may be only a form of it. Basal area agapa. 
of forewing brownish-black and strewn with light brown as far as the black antemedian line, the median area 
behind it at the costal margin grey, light reddish sand-colour below it, with a fine velvety black median line 
which is incurved at the cross-vein and towards vein 2, more or less punctiform; a broad postcellular blackish- 
brown shadow from 8 to 2 and to the anal angle, distally bordered by the fine blackish-brown postmedian 
line; a broad white spot from vein 5 to the apex, dark spots behind it; marginal area blackish mixed with brown. 
Hindwing white, brownish at the margin. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Mexico (Sinaloa). 
D. belfragei Grt. (150 c) is very similar to the following species; forewing ash-grey, marked very belfragei. 
much like lunata, but much more distinctly and more profusely, with strong double black transverse lines, the 
postmedian line filled with lighter grey, the submarginal line interrupted on vein 4 as in the allies. Hindwing 
white with a fine black marginal line and dark-speckled fringe. Known from Texas and Arizona. 
D. lunata Edw. (= plumosa Edw.) (150 c) is somewhat larger, more brownish-grey, markings less lunata. 
distinct, submarginal line broader, more blurred, not so much interrupted; the fine long black discal streak 
of belfragei is smaller here, thicker, more punctiform. Hindwing not so white, marginal line more faded, costal 
margin broadly smoky. Colorado and Arizona to Mexico. The $ is much more monotonous, often without any 
markings, hindwing smoky. 
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