FAMILY PERICOPID/E 
(Hypsid^ Auctorum) 
** Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, 
Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, 
Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, 
Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, 
While every beam new transient colours flings, 
Colours that change whene’er they wave their wings.** 
Pope. —Rape of the Lock. 
The following characterization of the family is taken from 
Hampson’s “Moths of India” Vol. I, p. 495: “Proboscis present. 
Palpi smoothly scaled; the third joint long and naked. Legs 
smooth; mid tibiae with one pair of spurs, hind tibiae with two 
pairs. Frenulum present. Fore wing with vein 1 a separate from 
1 b\ 1 c absent; 5 from near lower angle of cell. Hind wing with 
veins 1 a and 1 b present, 1 c absent; 5 from near lower angle of 
cell; 8 free from the base and connected by a bar with 7 at middle 
of cell. 
“ Larva with all the legs present, sparsely covered with long 
hairs. 
“ Cocoon slight.’* 
Genus DARITIS Walker 
A small genus of rather showy moths, which is represented in 
our fauna by two species. 
(1) Daritis thetis Klug, Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 5, $. 
The insect occurs in southern Arizona. 
Genus COMPOSIA Hubner 
(1) Composia fidelissima Herrich-Schseffer, Plate XXXVIII, 
Fig. 4, 3 . 
Syn. olympia Butler. 
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