DISPHRAGIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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D. mystica Schs. has grey forewings strewn with brown, basal area green with an oblique white sub- mystica. 
basal line, lilac brown in the cell with a reddish-yellow spot at the end, enclosing the red-brown discal streak, 
a blackish oblique shadow below it extends to the anal angle; green dusting behind the cell obliquely towards 
the costal margin; the black transverse lines are finely dentate, the posterior one partly double, red-brown 
spots are before the broWn subterminal shadow, a dark oblique subapical shadow behind it. Hindwing brownish- 
grey, fringe light, dotted black. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. Costa Rica. 
D. perplexa Schs. (150 k). Forewing deep red-brown with a violet tint, green at the base, inner margin, perplexa. 
distal half of the costal margin and subterminal area excepting two grey stripes between the lower radial and 
median nervules, with black dentate transverse lines, the posteiior one treble, the anterior one double; a black 
transverse streak at the cell-end. Hindwing white, veins and margins brownish, with a black marginal line. 
The larger $ is lighter, the green more extensive, 3 black spots each before the margin above the anal angle 
and subapically. Hindwing quite brownish-grey with lighter fringe. Mexico to Costa Rica. 
D. druona Schs. Fore wing light yellowish olive, cell and basal area strewn with black, with a blackish druona. 
shadow from the lower cell-end to the margin between 3 and 1; a blackish-broWn streak at the cross-vein; 
transverse lines undulate-dentate, black and white vein-dots behind them; a faded brown subterminal shadow 
is widened between 4 and 6. Hindwing brown, olive green at the costal margin with the beginnings of dark 
lines. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. French Guiana. 
Do carantis Schs. Forewing dull green at the costal margin, purple brown below it with a light brown carantis. 
patch from the cell-end to the apex; antemedian line black with 2 white dots at the inner margin; a green streak 
bordered with white at the cross-vein; postmedian line black with white vein-dots, indistinct, the veins behind 
it strewn black and white; small blackish-broWn subterminal spots, a green interrupted marginal line behind 
them. Hindwing blackish-broWn with a feeble lighter straight postmedian line, dusted with green at the costal 
margin, with the beginnings of dark lines. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Guatemala. 
D. sylla Drc. (= novella Schs.) (l-5fTk) has brown forewings, green at the margins excepting the sylla. 
apex, the dark transverse lines indistinct, shadow-like, the antemedian line double at the costal margin; blackish 
shading before and below the light brown cross-vein, a small white spot behind the centre of the costal margin; 
a light brown shadowy stripe before the dark subterminal shadow which terminates above the anal angle; fringe 
pinkish-brown, speckled darker. Hindwing brownish, scantily scaled, darker at the inner and distal margins, 
with a dark, distally lighter postmedian line. Mexico to Costa Rica. 
D. nystalina Fldr. Forewing greenish olive, mixed with brownish, with double dentate transverse nystalina. 
lines, the distal half of the median area broadly darkened at the costal margin, narrowly at the inner margin, 
enclosing the double dark cross-vein streak in a small light spot; black subterminal wedges. Hindwing brownish 
pink, with a broad blackish-brown marginal band and a small yellowish anal spot. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. 
Amazons. 
D. livida Schs. (150 k) is a beautiful species, sexually very dimorphous. $ with green forewings with livida. 
steel-blue spots at the bases of the costal and inner margins, with fine double transverse lines and a small 
brown cell-end spot surrounded by light green; a dark green oblique shadow from the cell to the centre of 
the inner margin, bluish-grey shading behind it also in the cell; a dark green postmedian band as far as the 
broad steel-blue subterminal line, shaded with blackish-brown, a light green spot at the apex. Hindwing brownish- 
grey, whitish basally, the black postmedian line shaded with light outside. The $ has light steel-blue forewings 
with double notched black transverse lines, the anterior lines shaded with green, the posterior lines with brown, 
with a brown area behind and below the cell; the thick black subterminal line is bordered with white and brown 
distally. Costa Rica. 
D. cariba Schs. Forewing brown with a green basal band traversed by two black lines, the green cariba. 
undulate median band bordered with brown and parted by a brown line, the area behind it light brown and 
dusted with lilac, grey before the cross-vein and between the median nervules; the treble postmedian line is 
interrupted by green above the median nervules. Costa and distal margin green, the latter bordered inside 
by the whitish-green undulate line. Hindwing lilac brown, distal margin broadly purple brown, traversed by 
a darker band. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Guatemala. 
D. delecta Schs. has olive green forewings dusted with white in the distal half at the costal margin delecta. 
and behind the cell, with double blackish-brown transverse lines, the posterior one spotted white, the median 
line bordered with white outside at the costal margin; the feeble brownish subterminal shadow is dentate. 
Hindwing brownish-grey, with a double postmedian line at the costal margin, followed by a small white apical 
spot. Expanse of wings: $ 35, $ 45 mm. Costa Rica. 
D. apparata Schs. Forewing apple-green with a black basal ray, double black dentate transverse apparata. 
lines, brown spots before the anterior line at the costal margin and below the cell as far as the inner margin, 
the centre of the costal margin and an oblique blotch between the median nervules are dusted with bluish- 
white; the light brown cross-vein is surrounded with deep blackish-brown, darker green dnsting before it; 
undulate-linear shadow black. Hindwing brownish lilac, fringe green, the short postmedian line at the costal 
margin is bordered with white outside. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. Costa Rica. 
