PERISAMA. By J. Résmr. 499 
P. alicia Hew. from Ecuador is beneath hardly different from vaninka, but the greenish band of the 
forewing on the upper surface is narrower and straight, thus beginning more near the apex of the forewing, the 
greenish-blue band of the hindwing is narrower, too; in the apex of the forewing there are 2 or 3 small blue 
spots. — ilia swbsp. nov. (102 A h) from Colombia (Aguaca-valley 2000 m; Tolima, 1700 m, discovered by A. H. 
Fasst) has beside the subapical spots of the forewings sometimes yet small submarginal blue spots. The under 
surface of the hindwings is snow-white (not reddish as in alicia), the black stripes and spots are finer, instead 
of the large red spot in the discocellular of the forewings there are only a blue spot (anteriorly) anda red one 
(posteriorly) at the end of the discocellular; behind the discocellular there are a white spot and a blue one stan- 
ding together and oblique from the end of the discocellular another blue spot; the other part of the forewings 
is deep black except the white apex of the wing in which we notice a fine black line. 
P. xenociea Fldr. from Venezuela exhibits much narrower green bands than alicia being interrupted 
on the forewings. The under surface of the forewings hardly differs from alicia, but the hindwings have light 
grey ground-colouring, the median lines originate at the costal margin more towards the base, the red margin 
of the costal margin reaches only as far as to the origin of the median line and the discal spots are much 
stronger. 
P. euriclea Dbl. and Hew. (102 A h) from Colombia and Venezuela differs above from vaninka by more 
greenish bands and by greenish-blue apical spots and submarginal little dots of the same colour. The under 
surface is likewise very similar to that of vaninka, although the two lines of the hindwing do not run into each 
other at the costal margin. 
P. jurinei Gwen. from Peru resembles a great deal ewriclea above, but on the under surface of the hind- 
wings it has a pure white ground colouring. 
P. yeba Hew. (= malvina Kretzschm.) (102 Ah) from Colombia has very light bluish-green bands; in 
some specimens the marginal band of the hindwings distally turns into whitish colour. The under surface is 
very similar to that of ewriclea, but the two black lines at the costal margin of the hindwings are more remote from 
each other at their origin. The red costal-marginal stripe only reaches as far as to the inner black line, 
and the discocellular of the forewings does not show any red colour, being on the basal half white, on the distal 
half lustrous blue. 
P. volara Hew. from Venezuela has a shorter and narrower band of the forewing divided by the black 
veins, and a considerably narrower band of the hindwings than vaninka; small apical spots absent. Beneath, 
the inner black line is merely suggested anteriorly, the outer line being finer and the black spots smaller; on 
the forewings there are no blue markings. 
P. calamis Hew. from Bolivia (Apolobamba) is a magnificent little animal from which fassli subsp. 
nov. (102 Ba) from Peru (Upper Madre de Dios) differs by larger bluish-green spots of the upper surface. The 
basal part of the under surface of the forewings is not red, but orange-yellow, the fringes are red all round and a 
fine red line stands in the apex of the wings. The hindwings are on a tender grey, a the middle lighter, the 
wing is encircled by a red marginal-line, besides there is a red dentate submarginal line and a very much 
curved, fine black median line; behind the median we notice an indistinct, small red stripe. 
P. chaseba Hew. from Bolivia differs from saussurei Guwén. (102 Ba) from ,,Brazil‘‘, Bolivia (Coroico) 
and Peru (Upper Madre de Dios) on the upper surface by the absence of the white apical spot; the blue rays 
of the hindwings being in chaseba nearly in the centre of the wings, are brought nearer to the wing-margin in 
saussurei which is also sometimes provided with a bluish-green band at the inner angle of the hindwings. The 
under surface of the hindwings is much more yellow than in chaseba and in the centre spotted in brown. 
P. cecidas Hew. (= cecida Ky., Stgr.) (102 Ba) from Ecuador and Peru has, like many Perisama- 
species, a row of blue-shining spots at the distal margin of the hindwings. 
P. compaspe Hew. (103 A a) from Colombia resembles very much cecidas on the forewings, but it has 
a large greenish-blue spot in the centre of the hindwings; the under surface is also quite similar to ce- 
cidas, although the red median spot on the forewings is strangulated by a dentiform black spot starting from 
the inner margin. 
P. diotima Hew. (102 Ba) from Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia has above unicolorous hindwings. — 
cardases Hew. (102 B b) only differs by the red spots in the middle of the under surface of the forewings, being 
probably only an aberration of diotima. 
P. clisithera Hew. (102 Bb) from Bolivia (Rio Songo 1200 m) is, with respect to the arrangement of 
the markings on the upper surface, most similar to goeringi (102 A e), though it has, as is shown by the figures, 
quite a different under surface. It is one of the most beautiful species of this genus. 
P. patara Hew. (102 Bb) from Colombia (taken by A. Fassu in Eastern Colombia, Upper Rio Negro, at 
an altitude of 800 m), is a charming little animal being similar to clisithera beneath, but above differing 
from it altogether by the absence of the metallic rays. The 9 discovered by Mr. A. H. Fassu is somewhat smaller 
than the 3, having more rounded wings and much duller colours on both the surfaces, 
alicia. 
ilia. 
awenoclea. 
euriclea. 
jurinei. 
yeba. 
volara. 
calamis. 
fassli. 
chaseba. 
saussurei. 
cecidas. 
compaspe. 
diotima. 
cardases. 
clisithera. 
patara. 
