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DISPHRAGIS. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
sabaria. 
hyginia. 
plebeia. 
cariosa. 
Santiago. 
notdbilis. 
ligneata. 
puseyae. 
mephitis. 
echina. 
D. sabaria Schs. Basal area of forewing obliquely from the costal margin to the centre of the inner 
margin dark brown as far as a black median streak, behind it white strewn with yellowish rust-colour; a double 
median line is cinnamon-brown, extending from the centre of the costal margin to behind the centre of the 
inner margin and filled with white, strewn with black in the cell; a small black spot at the cell-end; distal area 
broad brown, darker at the apex, shaded with brown between 4 + 5 and 3 and the submedian fold; the 
indistinct cinnamon-brown postmedian line is far outside. Subterminal line fine light, widened below 5 and 
white; cellular veins black, fringe white, speckled black on the ends of the veins. Hindwing brown with a double 
dark postmedian line, a feeble lighter band behind it. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. French Guiana. 
D. hyginia Schs. differs much from the other species. Forewing brown with an olive tint, the fresh 
insect presumably brighter green with a large white triangular area from the base to the centre of the costal 
margin to vein 1 before the centre of the inner margin, with fine rusty brown double transverse lines; a blackish- 
brown spot at the cell-end, a curved red-brown line behind it; blackish-brown strewing between the median 
and posterior transverse lines between vein 2 and the submedian fold; white, brown-scaled spots in the lower 
marginal half. Hindwing white, thinly scaled in the disc, brownish at the inner margin, white at the costal margin, 
with a double postmedian line and a small apical spot. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. Brazil (Rio Purus). 
D, plebeia Schs. Forewing brown with finely dentate double transverse lines, the posterior one indis¬ 
tinct, followed behind the cell by a quadrangular dark brown spot and dark brown shadows above it and towards 
the inner margin; the upper half of the antemedian area dark brown, Isabel-coloured below the cell and at 
the base of the inner margin, the undulate line of the same colour; a dark brown spot also at the cell-end, 
followed by an oblique shadow which is angled at the lower cell-end. Hindwing brown with an indistinct lighter 
postmedian shadow. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. Costa Rica. 
D. cariosa Schs. has light brown forewings, the distal half of the costal margin and the base of the 
inner margin being the lightest parts, with an oblique blackish shadow from the costal margin to the centre 
of the inner margin and a similar postmedian shadow in the lower two thirds; a red-brown line at the cross¬ 
vein, one dot each below it and above it; the brown posterior transverse line is double, shaded with black and 
grey in the lower half. Hindwing brown, spotted black and light anally. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. British 
Guiana. 
D. Santiago Schs. is steel-grey on the forewing, the anterior half of the median area whitish, with 
fine double transverse lines, the distal part of the anterior line black, the interior part lighter, olive, and olive 
dusting extends from it below the cell towards the base; the whitish anterior half of the median area is distally 
formed by a black median line with two arches; reddish-broWn and olive shading behind the postmedian line, 
the distal margin behind the red-brown subterminal line is olive with a black marginal line. Hindwing white, 
costal, distal and inner margins brown. Cuba (Santiago). 
D. notabilis Schs. (= normula Dogn., hemicera Schs.) (150 g). Fore wing grey with a large brown 
oblique area extending from the upper half of the distal margin broadly into the inner margin, with a black 
cell-end dot; instead of the posterior line there are black and white vein-dots. Hindwdng violettish-brown, 
darkened at the distal margin, with yellowish inner-marginal hair. Guiana, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Costa 
Rica. 
D. ligneata Wkr. (= aconthea Drc.) (150 g) together with notabilis and the two following species 
forms a group of closely allied forms. Forewing brown, striped darker on the veins, lighter in the spaces 
between them, without distinct transverse lines. 
D. puseyae Dyar (150 g) is similar to ligneata ; forewing light brown, shaded with dark brown along 
the basal half of the costal margin and below and behind the cell, distally bordered by the light subterminal 
shadow; the light, strongly notched single transverse lines are very indistinctly marked by light dots on the 
veins, the most distinctly in the narrow deep dark brown inner margin; 2 small dots above each other at the 
cell-end. Hindwing brown, somewhat yellowish in the disc. Peru, Bolivia. 
D. mephitis Schs. (150 g) is very much like puseyae , easily distinguished by the much thicker discal 
dots the lower one of which is by far the largest; they are usually confluent in the $; the posterior transverse 
line is more distinctly marked by black double dots filled with yellowish-white. Mexico. 
D. echina Schs. (150 h). Forewing reddish brown, broadly moss-green at the costal margin, moss- 
green strewing at' the distal margin and below the lower cell-end, the fine dentate black transverse lines rather 
indistinct, white vein-dots behind the distal line; darker strewing in and below the cell, red-brown shading at 
the base of the inner margin and behind the cell, an irregular marginal shadow is also reddish-brown, darkest 
analwards; dark streaks at the ends of the veins are followed by light dots, fringe speckled. Hindwing dark 
brown, thinly scaled with a darker apical shadow divided by reddish-brown. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. Guiana, 
Colombia. 
