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A. sophia Dgn. (60 b). This species, according to its author, rather closely approximates the similarly sophia. 
coloured Phegopterinae (Halisidota dukinfieldia and nero, t. 59 f), and like them it forms a transition to the 
genus Calidota in which there are quite similar imagines (such as Cal. rubrosignata, t. 56 b), so that these 
lepidoptera may be better placed hereto. A. sophia is jet-black with a hemochrome abdomen and red costal- 
marginal markings on the forewing. 
A. suprema Wkr. (60 a) is likewise black, in this specimen not the abdomen, but the hindwing is red. suprcma. 
In the forewing there are fine crimson longitudinal rays of a length up to 1 cm. From the Colombian Andes, at 
a great altitude, reported from Bogota; rare. 
A. lysandra Drc. which is not lying before me seems to be very similar to vetusta Strd. (60 a) which lysandra. 
may be a form of it, from which the typical lysandra , according to the description, chiefly differs by the abdomen vetusta - 
being black above. — martha Dogn., being likewise unknown to me and perhaps a distinct species, has the viartha. 
ground-colour of the hindwing above black, finely strewn with yellow, but in the scheme of markings it seems 
to agree with lysandra and occurs in Peru (Huancabarnba) like lysandra and vetusta. 
A. constricta Strd. (60 a). The yellow spots on the forewing mentioned in the preceding species are constricta. 
very much enlarged and increased, and the large yellow thoracal spots surrounded with jet-black and pupilled 
dark red. The transverse bands of the forewing are connected like an H by an intermediary line, and are much 
more distinctly prominent than in vetusta. Bolivia. 
A. drucei (60 b) is a species occurring from Mexico to Guatemala (there in a slightly different form), drucei. 
Here the yellow has entirely disappeared from the forewing, but the grey colour is increased; the hindwing 
is quite black, the median transverse band is pierced in the submedian area. — In the Guatemala-form, which 
I denominate brueckneri form. nov. in honour of its discoverer, the median transverse band is not pierced in bruckneri. 
the submedian area, but it extends uninterruptedly from the costal margin to the proximal margin, and besides 
it coheres yet on the median branch with the antemedian transverse band. — As to the larva we refer to 
the characterization of the genus. The imago is rare. 
A. sannionis Btlr. (60 b) forms about the intermediary between constricta and drucei. The transverse sannionis. 
bands are complete and broadly coherent on the median; the distal longitudinal rays are greyish-blue, traversed 
by red; the hindwing is black. This species is described from Peru. 
A. decorata Wkr. (60 a). Forewing of a bright yellow and red colour, the transverse bands complete, decoraia. 
but not coherent. Hindwing yellow, in the proximal part and on the abdomen tinged with red; in the marginal 
part there are often black longitudinal rays which, however, may differ in the single specimens. Mexico, 
mostly rare. 
A. tricoloriceps Strd. is allied to decorata , but the longitudinal rays in the forewing are broader, the iricolori- 
hindwing is uni-coloured? blackish-brown and thereby easily discernible from the preceding. Likewise from ccp: 
Mexico. 
VII. Pericopinae. 
We have already mentioned on p. 231 the relation of the Pericopinae to the Arctiidae and the reasons 
why we ranged them among the great family of the Arctiiclae, as has been done in Kirby’s Catalogue. The 
genus Anaxita, which was formerly placed to the Pericopinae and now to the Phegopterinae, may be regarded 
as a connecting line betwen both. According to the characterization of the Pericopinae (vid. p. 425), they 
are composed of somewhat more than 300 well-known lepidopteral forms which on the whole are rather of 
a homogeneous structure. The few more distinctly varying species (such as Cyanohypsa stefanelli Giac., 61a) 
are still too little examined and are also very doubtfully placed. 
Their range is rather confined, as is mentioned in the description of the groups (p. 425), but they are 
rather equably distributed in the hot neotropical region. In the lowlands we may reckon at most of the 
places to meet with about 1 to 1% dozen species. They generally prefer the wooded districts, but in the real 
density of the primeval forests almost only smaller species are found; the Pericopis, Eucyane, Daritis, Phaloe, 
and Calodesma, being the more beautiful and stronger species are chiefly met with in open spaces, on broad 
roads, the skirts and clearings of the forests; some species (e. g. Peric. sacrifica) even inhabit the waste land, 
or the slopes that are covered with low bushes. At the greatest altitudes of several thousands of metres 
the Anaxita occur, which were considered as the alpine representatives of the group, before they were taken 
out from it. 
On the whole, the Pericopinae are mostly variegated insects of a considerable size. Some $2 have 
an expanse of more than 10 cm, the average expanse being about 5 to 6 cm. On the wings which are always 
entirely margined, broad and rather hard, without appendages, tails, indentations, and in the genuine Pericopinae 
