352 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



Var. 6\ Fore wings with the first band white, second obsolete. 

 Hind wings with the red stripe very little longer than broad ; white 

 spot small. 



Var. c. Like Var. 6\ White spot extremely small. 



0, b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



c. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



d. Brazil. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



16. PERICOPIS LEUCOPH.EA. 



Nigro-fusca ; thorax antice albo guttatus ; alee anticce basi coccineo 

 guttata ; postiece margine rufo maculato alboque guttato ; mas, 

 abdomen apice luteum ; alee anticce cinereo subhyalino bifas- 

 ciatce ; foem. abdominis segmentum apicale luteo marginatum. 



Male. 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 semihyaline bands, the 

 subapical one clearer than the first. Fern. Last abdominal segment 

 with a luteous margin. Length "of the body 9 — 10 lines; of the 

 wings 24 — 28 lines. 



«, b. Mexico. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



17. Pericopis subapicalis. 



Foem. Nigro-fusca, cinerascens ; abdomen subtus apice luteum; 

 alcesubtus basi rufo gut tat ce : anticce fascia subcinerea hyalina; 

 postiece cyaneo-nigrce marginibus albo guttatis, 



Fern. Blackish brown, suffused with gray. Antennae minutely 

 setose or indistinctly serrated. Abdomen luteous at the tip beneath. 

 Wings with red dots at the base beneath. Fore wings before the 

 middle with an indistinct oblique black band, and beyond the middle 

 with a nearly upright grayish hyaline band which is white beneath. 

 Hind wings bluish black, with while dots along the hind border. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



a, b. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 c. Brazil. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



