DISPHRAGIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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D. captiosa sp. n. (150 d) is very similar to gelduba, but surely different. Forewing blackish-grey, captiosa. 
whitish in the median area, without any olive tint, dusted with red-brown behind the cell and narrowly at 
the margin, also near the single blackish transverse lines; marked like gelduba, but it exhibits a very much 
thicker black subterminal shadow extending arcuately between the median nervules to the lower cell-angle, 
and the subapical internerval streaks are much stronger and extend to the margin; the marginal line itself, 
being undulate in gelduba, is rectilinear here and double, the interior portion thicker than the exterior one. 
Hindwing blackish-grey, lighter towards the base, fringe speckled darker, unicoloured in gelduba. Mexico 
(Zacualpan, Cuernavaca). Type $ in the Coll. Draudt. 
D. seniilunata Schs. (150 e) is somewhat similar to the preceding species, but at once discernible by semilunaia. 
the entirely white hindwings. Forewing light grey, dusted with reddish-brown at the base, with fine black 
basal and inner-marginal rays; the crescentiform shadow from the lower cell-end to the anal angle is deep 
velvety brown; 3 dark postmedian transverse lines are partly confluent and form a dark shadow above the 
lunular spot. Undulate line white. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. Brazil (Castro, Parana). 
D. peruviensis Dogn. is presumably the Peruvian representative of daona and aroensis. Forewing peru- 
steel-grey, whitish and mixed with reddish-brown at the costal margin, white in the cell, with black basal rays viensis. 
as far as the double antemedian line; a red-brown subterminal shadow extends from the fine black arcuate 
streak between the median nervules to the costal margin, traversed by black internerval streaks, bordered 
with white above. Hindwing purely white with a small black anal spot and costal margin. Expanse of wings: 
43 mm. 
D. epimacha Schs. Head and thorax light reddish-yellow' mixed with red-brown, abdomen brownish epimacha. 
sand-coloured above. Forewing brown towards the base, the base itself grey, bordered by a double black line 
proceeding from a small orange spot at the base of the median vein; filled with white; the anterior transverse 
line is fine black, oblique to the inner margin, where it meets the fine median line; behind the blackish-brown 
postmedian line, between the subcosta and vein 3, there is a large reddish-yellowish white area, shaded with 
brown at the costal margin, outside by the red-brown subterminal shadow entering between 6 and 4 and 
turning velvety blackish-brown below 4; the light area is crossed inside by a curved fine red-brown line, outside 
by a double similar one filled with white; yellow internerval spots are at the margin, shaded with brown inwards; 
vein 1 and the cellular nervules are partly strewn with black and white. Hindwing dark reddish-brown with 
a feeble lighter postmedian line ending in a white spot at the anal angle. Expanse of wings: 43 mm. Cayuga 
(Guatemala). 
D. multilineata Dogn. reminds us of aroensis, forewing greenish mixed with reddish-grey, dusted multi- 
with lilac subcostally and at the distal margin, double very fine sharply angled antemedian and median trans¬ 
verse lines, and 4 strongly dentate indistinct postmedian transverse lines which are twice interrupted by longi¬ 
tudinal streaks; the subterminal line is irregular. Hindwing diaphanous white, with yellowish hair at the inner 
margin. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. Argentina. 
D. amanda B. & Linds, is nearer to varia owing to the shape of the subterminal line; forewing grey, amanda. 
dusted.with white at the costal margin, somewhat lighter and with a reddish-brown tint basally, above the 
inner margin and behind the cell; transverse lines double, the anterior one oblique to the centre of the inner 
margin, filled with a lighter colour, with distal curves between the veins, the posterior one with the reverse 
curves, more vertical, distally concave behind the cell, projecting quadrangularly behind the lower cell-end; 
subterminal line as in varia, distally accompanied by a feeble whitish line; the cell-end streak is a fine curved 
black line. Hindwing white, costal and distal margins dusted with greyish-brown, darker greyish-brown in 
the $ with a lighter postmedian band. Arizona. 
D. manteo Dbld. ( = cinerascens Wh\, subalbicans Grt.) (150 e) represents an entirely different type; manteo. 
forewing whitish ash-grey, dusted darker, with 2 double, very dentate transverse lines, a strong black cell-end 
streak which is mostly broken up into two dots above each other in somewhat lighter surroundings; the costal- 
marginal part of the postmedian line is mostly situate in a darker dusted spot which may be very large; undulate 
line shadow-like darker, somewhat dentate, black dots at the margin. Hindwing dark smoky grey with a feeble 
lighter postmedian line and a dark anal spot. — The larva is green with broad yellow subdorsal lines and 
narrow lateral lines, the former more separated on several segments, and dorsally filled more or less red. It 
chiefly lives on oaks, and may be so common that it is destructive to them, but it occurs also on various other 
deciduous trees. In the Eastern United States from Canada to Texas. 
D. rascona Schs. (150 e) is very similar to manteo, but it has been ranged under Bijargia of late; the rascona. 
cf not being at hand I cannot decide this question. Darker blackish-grey than mante >, much lighter whitisli- 
grey subterminally, lightest above the anal angle; the marking is quite the same, though the transverse lines 
are less distinct, extinct in the dark ground-colour, black and white vein-dots behind the postmedian line, a 
whitish line behind the undulate line. Hindwing darker brownish-grey. Mexico. 
D. externa Wkr. (= spurca Schs.) (150 e) is like rascona in colour and marking, forewing lighter externa. 
ash-grey, less strewn, without the whitish-grey subterminal brightening, only somewhat lighter above the 
lineaia. 
