294 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



PERICOPIS HUBNER. 



Body nearly linear and cylindrical, moderately long and stout. 

 Head and thorax of the male hairy, the latter thick. Palpi more 

 or less ascending, hairy in the male ; third joint acuminated in the 

 male, conical in the female, abdut one-third of the length of the 

 second. Antennae little or not more than half the length of the 

 body, pectinated moderately or minutely in the male, very slightly 

 or serrated in the female. Abdomen of the male slightly com- 

 pressed, much narrower than the thorax, extending for one-third 

 of its length beyond the hind wings; of the female obconical at 

 the tip, extending for one-fourth of its length or less beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs moderately stout ; hind tibiae with two minute 

 apical spurs. Wings long, rather broad, more or less semihyaline; 



four inferior veins. 



WALKER. 



1. P. eurocilia Cram. Pap. Exot. II, 126, pi. 178, f. C. 



Ferruginous. Head, thorax in front and abdomen spotted with 

 white. Thorax and abdomen on the sides striped with yellow. 

 Wings with marginal white dots. Fore wings with a black stripe 

 near the base, with a short, oblique black band in front, and the 

 tip of the wing black; also a broad median yellow band, sur- 

 rounding a black spot, abbreviated and incised behind. Hind 

 wings black, red at the base, with ferruginous discal streaks. 



West Indies. 



WALKER. 



2. P. leucophaea Walker, 352. 



Wings quite opaque in the female. 



Blackish-brown. Antennae very minutely pectinated. Thorax 

 with several white dots in front. Fore wings with a crimson dot 

 on each at the base. Hind wings with a row of crimson spots near 

 the hind border, close to which there is a row of white dots. 

 Male. Abdomen with a luteous tip. Fore wings with two gray 

 slightly oblique irregular nearly connected semi-hyaline bands, the 

 subapical one clearer than the first. Fern. Last abdominal seg- 



