DISPHRAGIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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D. vestona Schs. (= proba Schs.) (150 h) has dark moss-green, black-strewn forewings with very veslona. 
indistinct double darker transverse lines and a fine cell-end streak surrounded by a lighter green colour; white 
vein-dots on both sides of the postmedian line; a subterminal row of small blackish-brown spots. Hindwing 
greyish-brown with a dark marginal line dotted yellow on the ends of the veins. Mexico. 
D. dardania Drc. (150 h) is very similar, but more or less mixed with red-brown, the double transverse dardania. 
lines more distinct, filled with reddish-brown, the veins strewn black and white; the posterior transverse line 
ends at the inner margin with a small white angular spot. Hindwing greyish-brown, lighter in the disc, with 
2 dentate darker postmedian lines. Mexico. 
D. arima Schs. is very near to vestona ; distinguished by quite different hindwings which are broadly arima. 
brownish-grey at the inner margin and distal margin, whitish in the lower half of the cell and behind it, brownish 
olive at the costal margin, with a double postmedian line and black subterminal line, the postmedian line 
continued by dots. Forewing brownish olive, strewn with black, the dentate lines similar to those of vestona, 
indistinct, a fine black line bordered with reddish-brown is at the cross-vein; white vein-dots behind the post¬ 
median line and subterminal blackish and reddish-brown internerval streaks; a dark stripe strewn with reddish 
orange before the centre of the inner margin. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Brazil (Rio Purus). 
D. psalnioida Schs. is a very small species; body dull green. Fore wing reddish olive with fine blackish- psalmoida. 
brown transverse lines, the subbasal line double at the costal margin, a fine line at the cross-vein, the post¬ 
median line distally bordered with white at the costal margin, undulate, dentate from 5 to the inner margin, 
followed by black and white vein-dots which are connected by a very fine undulate line; cellular branches 
black as far as the margin. Hindwing white, reddish-brown at the inner margin, the costal margin broad 
reddish olive with the beginnings of dark lines, white subterminally between. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. 
Venezuela. 
D. biundata Wlcr. (= olivata Pack., semiplaga Wkr., viridescens Wkr., mollis Wkr.) (150 h) is an biundata. 
extremely common and widely distributed species with dull olive green forewings, the single dark brown dentate 
transverse lines bordered with reddish-brown on both sides, a similar cell-end streak below which there is a 
more or less distinct spot of blackish dusting; red-brown subterminal wedges, edged with yellowish-white 
especially towards the apex, and whitish vein-dots before the redbrown-spotted fringe. Hindwing greyish-brown 
with an indistinct lighter almost straight postmedian line which begins distinctly dentate in the darkened 
costal-marginal part. North America (Atlantic States) to Brazil and Peru. — Larva thickened in the middle, 
green with a broad white dorsal band which is strangulated between the 6th and 7th segments and separates 
behind into the white long caudal points, whilst it is spotted brown laterally especially on the middle segments; 
head red-brown. It lives on a great number of deciduous trees. 
D. subguttata Wkr. Forewing brownish olive, strewn darker brown, and instead of the transverse subguttata 
lines with double rows of blackish spots between the veins; the anterior ones indistinct, the posterior ones 
more distinct and irregular, the spots between the median nervules and the subapical ones thicker than 
the others, those between the lower radial branches removed inwards; a round blackish spot in the cell and 
at its end; undulate line lighter, shaded dark inwards, black streaks before the margin. Hindwing brownish- 
grey, with brownish hair at the inner margin. Brazil. 
D. guttivitta Wkr. (= albiplaga Wkr. , mucorea Herr.-Schdff., cinereus Pack., harrisi Pack., indeter- guttivitta. 
minata Wkr., doubledayi Scddr.) (150 h) is very similar to subguttata, and very difficult to distinguish in worn 
specimens. The last joint of the palpus is decidedly shorter, the 2 nd joint has outside only a narrow black 
streak, whilst it is almost entirely black in biundata\ the slightly curved discal streak is situate in a large 
light ash-grey halo, the transverse lines are less distinct, and the olive-green colour is mostly not so uniform; 
on an average, the species is somewhat smaller than subguttata. — Larva very different, head green like the body 
with a red arcuate streak bordered with yellow on each hemisphere; the dorsum exhibits a white line which 
is treble before and behind the middle, and yellow subdorsal lines, the former line being bordered with 
red on the 3 first segments, spotted red-brown on the 6th, 9th and 10th segments; smaller red-brown spots on 
the sides of the 3rd, 9th and 10th segments above the feet. It chiefly lives on maple, but also on oak 
and applej chestnuts, beeches and snowball. Atlantic States. 
D. virgea Schs. is likewise very similar to biundata, and presumably the southern representative; virgea. 
forewing brighter dark olive green, the dark brown transverse lines bordered with a lighter brown, the curved 
cell-end streak in a light brown halo; the brown submarginal wedges larger, more coherent and very broadly 
bordered with yellowish especially apically. Hindwing light grey, with yellowish hair at the inner margin; 
thickly dusted with black at the distal margin. The species is larger. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Brazil 
(Petropolis). 
D. vivida Schs. is very closely allied to the preceding species, forewing bright green, the brown virida. 
transverse lines shaded with reddish-yellow and brown, similarly shaped as in biundata, the posterior line almost 
straight to the inner margin; the discal streak is in a large whitish spot; the brown subterminal spots are 
bordered with whitish, pointedly dentate basally in the upper quarter ; white dots on the margin, fringe as 
