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P. menota Dyir (33 c) resembles the preceding so much that it is difficult to separate; it is of a menoln. 
more slender structure with somewhat longer forewings with an obliquer distal margin and longer apex, duller, 
more lustreless and somewhat darker, with darker, in the $ entirely darkened hindwings. Mexico. 
P. drusilla Schs. Forewing yellowish-white, irrorated with reddish-brown, with an entirely indistinct tlrusilhi. 
anterior transverse line being marked by white vein-dots and only double at the costal margin, the maculae 
surrounded with greyish-brown; the posterior transverse line is light, proximally brown, distally marked with 
black and white vein-dots, in the dark purple brown marginal area behind it there are undulate linear spots. 
Hindwing brownish-grey. British Guiana. 
P. sutor On. (= turpis On., indecisa Wkr., claufacta Wkr., otiosa Wkr., paupera Wkr., detrecta sutor. 
Wkr., fabrefacta Morr., cervina Sm.) (33 c) is an entremely common and widely distributed species; lustrous 
greyish-brown, strewn darker, with indistinctly double darker transverse lines, the maculae encircled with 
black, with white dots in the reniform macula; postmedianly there are black and white vein-dots, before the 
light undulate line dark shading and black longitudinal streaks. Hindwing yellowish-brown, at the margin 
darker. From the United States to Paraguay and Argentina *). 
P. sutrix Dyar (33 d) is very closely allied to sutor and chiefly separable by the much lighter hindwings; sutrix. 
the forewing is more monotonously loam-coloured yellowish-grey, less strewn with white, the maculae also 
less white; before the undulate line somewhat more intensely shaded with blackish. Mexico. 
P. lineata Drc. (33 d). Forewing red-brown, strewn with white, with feebly darker, double transverse lineatn. 
lines filled up with light grey, and the maculae in fine grey rings; the undulate line more or less distinctly grey, 
proximally shaded with dark. Hindwing light greyish-brown, at the margin darker, in the $ darkened. Mexico, 
Panama. 
P. parista Schs. The yellow ground of the forewing is mixed with red, in the median area and post- parish/. 
medianly suffused with slate-coloured grey, with slate-coloured veins which are strewn with white in the 
distal third; transverse lines dark red, the posterior line more shadow-like; the larger yellow reniform macula 
is bordered and striped with red, with a small white spot therein. Hindwing whitish, at the margin grey. 
Guatemala. 
P. cenola Sch.s. (33 d). Forewing red-brown, from the base to the posterior transverse line except cenola. 
the costal-marginal part irrorated with dark blackish-brown, the veins striped dark; transverse lines indistinct, 
double, the posterior line with rows of vein-dots behind it; maculae encircled and centred with black; undulate 
line fadedly darker. Hindwing yellowish white, at the margin brownish. Brazil (Sao Paido). 
P. tetera Wkr. (= sobria Wkr., inquieta Wkr., distans Wkr.) (33 d) is smaller than the preceding, tetcra. 
more greyish-brown, postmedianly irrorated with whitish, with brownish transverse lines being on the averted 
sides bordered with greyish-white, with small maculae surrounded with brown and centred with yellowish, 
between them a dark median shadow; the light-spotted undulate line ist proximally shaded with brown. Hind¬ 
wing white, at the margin brownish. The A is more monotonously greyish-brown with darker hindwings. 
Brazil. 
P. vacillans Wkr. (- fidelia Drc.) is much darker, purple red, strewn with black, in the hindmarginal vacillans. 
half somewhat more reddish-brown, with indistinctly double transverse lines, the posterior line dentate with black 
and white vein-dots, the maculae surrounded with black, with a white spot in the reniform macula, surrounded 
by white dots, between them with a faded median shadow; undulate line composed of small black sagittae. 
Hindwing blackish-brown with a coppery reflection. Panama to Brazil. 
P. baalba Schs. Forewing greyish-white, basally at the costal margin and in the cell mixed with hacilha. 
brown, with black transverse lines; the small reniform macula which is strewn with brown, is bordered with white; 
from the cell-end a brown patch extends to the margin; behind and below the cell-end there is another brown 
spot. Hindwing brownish-grey, with darker veins. Guatemala. 
P. ruthae Schs. Forewing of a silky lustrous drab colour, with black transverse lines being on the rutliae. 
averted sides bordered with pinkish-yellow; the ring-macula is in a whitish ring, the reniform macula distally 
white, proximally reddish-yellow, between both there are black spots, behind it a streak connecting it with the 
spotted postmedian line; undulate line with reddish-yellow spots. Hindwing blackish-grey. Galapagos Islands. 
P. ebba Schs. Forewing brown suffused with purple, the veins strewn with black and white, below chha. 
and behind the cell-end blackish-grey, strewn white, with black transverse lines and white vein-dots behind 
the distal line, the bordering of the maculae scantily scaled white; the light undulate line is proximally shaded 
with blackish. Hindwing brownish-grey, at the margin darker. A smaller species from the Galapagos Islands. 
P. selenosa Gn. (— remissa Wkr., demittens Wkr., agnata Fldr., luxa Grt., samula Drc.. sutor Drc.. selenosa. 
fidelia Drc. part.) (33 d). Forewing lustrous ochreous-brown, strewn with black, with indistinct double transverse 
lines filled up with ochreous, and ochreous-yellowish maculae finely surrounded with black and more or less 
strewn with black, with a large white spot in the reniform macula which is absent in the form vecors Gn. (33 d): vecors. 
behind the undulate line nore or less distinct black marginal streaks. Hindwing brownish-grey with light fringes. 
An extremely common insect of an immensely vast range from the United States to Brazil, also in Jamaica. 
*) P. proximo, Morr., described as Perigea from Texas, is a species not to be identified, not represented in any 
collection and without a type being traceable, for which reason it is best cancelled . 1 
