chocotoa. 
grandi- 
macula. 
pi eta. 
intermedia. 
merit a. 
variegata. 
castrena. 
rothschildi. 
1006 GRAFIRIA. By Dr. M. Draudt 
double dots are before the margin in the interspaces. Hindwing brownish-grey, fringe yellowish-white. 
Guiana. 
R. chocotoa Dyar is near tetys and has monotonously chocolate-brown forewings, shaded somewhat 
blackish in the basal area; the two transverse lines are indistinctly double, the anterior one forms 3 bows, the 
posterior one is dentate on the veins, with black and white vein-dots behind it; a dark streak at the cell-end. 
somewhat lighter behind it; instead of the undulate line there are small indistinct blackish spots between the 
veins, each with a light halo on the outside; black oblique internerval streaks before the margin. Hindwing 
brownish-grey, lighter yellowish towards the base, long yellowish hair at the inner margin. Fringe yellowish- 
white. Expanse of wings: 66 mm. Colombia. 
R. grandimacula Dogn. Forewing silvery grey finely strewn with greyish-brown and with double brown 
dentate transverse lines, the anterior one and posterior one uniting submedianly; a strong black crescentiform 
streak is at the cell-end, a broad blackish shadow behind it extends to the postmedian line and appears brownish 
towards the costal margin, fringe speckled white and brown. Hindwing blackish, spotted black and white at 
the anal angle. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. French Guiana. 
R. picta Schs. (153 f) is the chief representative of a beautiful group of more variegated species; 
forewing violettish-brown mixed with grey, more reddish-brown at the costal margin, the two colours separated 
by a broad white stripe above the inner-marginal vein, which stripe does not extend to the margin and is bordered 
with black above and with olive below; a large light postcellular area is interrupted by a broad grey stripe 
bordered with black above and below; the post median line is shaded with olive. Hindwing whitish with brown 
veins and marginal line, brown inner-marginal shading and a dark inner-marginal spot. Guiana, Colombia. 
R. intermedia Rothsch. (153 f) is intermediary between picta and merita ; forewing reddish cinnamon 
with a broad reddish-brown longitudinal band to the centre of the margin with a pink tint, the longitudinal 
band above the inner-marginal vein reddish-yellow, more greyish outside. Hindwing reddish-yellow, brownish 
at the margin. The $ is larger with darker hindwings. Venezuela. 
R. merita Schs. Fore wing violettish-brown below the inner-marginal vein, olive above it, with a short 
white basal ray below the cell; a broad light violet band extends from the first quarter of the costal margin 
to the centre of the margin and turns darker distally, the distal three quarters of the costal margin above it 
are broad dark violettish-brown with 2 black lines in it; the fine postmedian line is double. Hindwing brown, 
blackish at the distal margin with a fine reddish-yellow line in it. Expanse of wings: 52 mm. British Guiana. 
R. variegata Dogn. differs somewhat from the diagnose of the genus in the antennae being set with 
lamellae. Forewing covered with scales of various colours, white, yellow and green at the base, then follow 
on the lilac and green ground 3 black parallel lines, the costal margin above the lilac and pink cell is white, 
the space below the cell lilac and green like the space behind it, only admixed with white at the margin; the 
black postmedian line is partly double, traversed by the black veins. Hindwing yellowish-white, brownish 
at the margin. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Brazil (Novo Fribiugo). 
R. castrena Jones. Forewing yellowish ochreous, dusted with red-brown and blackish, red-brown 
in the basal area and at the cell-end and behind it, with double dark dentate transverse lines, the posterior 
one filled with a lighter colour; a subterminal row of small reddish-brown luniform spots, 2 small black luniform 
spots before them in the lower half; an intense black streak at the cell-end connects 2 very dark shadows at the 
costal margin and below the cell. Hindwing yellowish-brown. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Brazil (Castro, Parana). 
R. rothschildi n. nom. (= muscosa Rothsch. nec Dogn.) is an insect with very remarkably narrow 
wings, the generic position of which is not cpiite certain. Forewing greyish-green, watered black, pinkish-brown 
in the median area with double dentate black transverse lines, ring-macula and reniform macula, and a darker 
triangular apical spot. Hindwing brownish orange at the base as far as the inner margin, didl brown outside. 
Head and collar chestnut-red like the first two abdominal segments. Expanse of wings: 53 mm. Surinam. 
100. Genus : Graf irist nov. 
1 establish this genus for a very remarkable insect described as Rifargia, from which it differs chiefly 
in the longer palpi with a rather long drooping beak-shaped or snout-shaped terminal joint. Wings very long, 
narrow, distal margin of forewing concave in the lower half, the slender abdomen projects considerably beyond the 
short narrow hindwings. The origin of vein 5 of forewing is removed down to the centre of the cross-vein, vein 
6 arises right behind the beginning of the areole, not from its centre. Hindwing as in Rifargia. 
Type of genus: G. steinbachi Rothsch. 
