Publ. 17. IV. 1925. 
PERICOPIS. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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P. sylvia Drc. is unknown to me. body black, collar and-patagia dotted white. Abdomen above sylvia. 
grey, beneath pale yellow. Forewing like in the preceding, a red-brown line on the proximal margin, some 
white subapical spots. Hindwing whitish hyaline, veins and the broad transverse vein black. Distal margin 
broad black with white submarginal spots. Beneath the costa is chrome-yellow. Size and range as in the 
preceding. 
P. terrrmiata Guer. Body blackish-brown, abdomen beneath only with two narrow yellow lines, patagia terminala. 
with a red dot. Wings blackish-brown, forewing with a narrow yellowish transverse band extending from 
the costa to the tornus and being somewhat reddish at the ends. Hindwing with a broad red marginal band 
parted black by the veins. Fringes partly black. Forewing beneath in the centre wdth a yellow spot, hindwing 
beneath on the inner side of the red marginal band bordered with yellow, the latter band mostly paler. — The 
form holofernes Btlr. (62 f) is wanting the yellow spots beneath. Brazil: Rio. lwlojernes. 
P. marginata Guer. (63 c) resembles the preceding, but in the forewing the transverse band extends marginata. 
towards the centre of the distal margin, not to the tornus. The $ has uni-coloured blackish-brown hindwings. 
Anal tuft orange, not red like in terminata. Brazil: Leopoldina, Sao Paulo. 
P. constans sp. n. (63 c). G and $ almost uniform. Body blackish-brown, collar and patagia spotted constans. 
ochreous-yellow, abdomen above blackish-violet, beneath white. Wings similar as in tricolora-3, the dark 
portions, however, irrorated bluish, fringes of hindwings white, margin of hindwing in the $ narrower than in 
the <$. Beneath all the wings with a yellow basal spot, the bluish irroration more distinct. Brazil. type from 
Leopoldina, ^ from Bahia, in the Berlin Museum. 
P. hilarina Weym. (— biformis Sch.s. 3) (63 c). Body blackish-brown, collar and patagia with light hilarina. 
spots, in the G abdomen beneath with two narrow light longitudinal stripes. Forewing partly hyaline, with 
a dark dentate transverse line across the centre of the cell, a similar one across the transverse vein, a dark apical 
and tornal area. A yellowish-white band extends from the costa to the centre of the margin, yellowish-white 
marginal spots. Hindwing light red, costa and distal margin black, the light area projecting on the centre of 
the distal margin to the border. Single dark spots in the red area may be present or absent. In the $ the 
black margins are somewhat broader. — In the form fulva Weym. (63 c) the red area of the hindwing is yellow, fulva. 
South Brazil. 
P. hilara Weym. (= biformis Schs. $) (63 c) resembles the preceding, but the hindwing is extensively hilara. 
black at the anal margin and from the direction of the base, whilst the red colouring is only found in a large 
crescent round the cell-end. It may only be a form of the preceding. South Brazil. — It likewise occurs with 
yellow colouring on the hindwing, like fulva Weym.-, this is mutata form. nov. ; $ from Castro (Parana) in the mutata. 
Tring Museum. 
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3. Costa at the base with a very much contrasting light longitudinal streak; abdomen in the $ uni-coloured or with 
a dark dorsal line. Subgenus Sermyla Wkr. 
P. transversa Wkr. (63 f) is blackish-brown, collar and patagia spotted yellow. Abdomen in the $ ircmsversa. 
above with two yellow lines, two similar lateral ones and two ventral ones. Wings black, forewing with a 
yellow costal streak as far as about 2 / 3 of the costa and a yellow subapical band to the centre of the distal 
margin, hindwing with a yellow central spot. Beneath the base is yellow in the length of the costal streak as 
far as the analis. Brazil. 
P. morta Schs. approximates transversa (63 f), the costal line and subapical line are connected, morta. 
hindwing uni-coloured blackish-brown. Abdomen blackish-brown. Brazil. 
4. Abdomen in the $ with a dark dorsal streak, costa at the base not with a conspicuously light longitudinal line. 
Subgenus Pericopis Hbn. 
P. lycaste King (= iscariotes Bsd., cydon Drc.) (63 e). Body blackish-brown, patagia and thoracal lyeaste. 
sides with scanty yellow scales; abdomen above red with a black dorsal line, laterally with black lines, beneath 
brimstone-coloured, posterior margins of the segments in the centre black. Forewing blackish-brown with 
a diffuse hyaline transverse band extending from the tornus to the costa, bifurcating at the discal cell, the 
outer portion projecting between the 1st cubitus and 2nd median towards the margin. Hindwing hyaline in 
the 3) costa, transverse vein, and margin black, the latter with a row of white submarginal spots, before them 
a brick-coloured red band being more or less extended to the apex. $ hindwing of an ochreous-recl ground¬ 
colour, margin black with white spots, before it an irregular black line. Beneath the costa of the forewing with 
a red basal streak, the black markings partly covered with red-brown. — In the G form praetides Drc. (63 f) praetides. 
the red parts in the margin of the hindwing are absent ; — in tibesis Drc. (63 d, e) the £ hindwing is not whitish tibesis. 
hyaline, but red-hyaline. Mexico to Colombia. — Larva dark brown, spotted black in dorsal, lateral, and stigmatal 
lines between the reddish-brown tubercles. Segment 4 is lighter, 5 and 11 dark, their tubercles black; 3, 6 
and 13 are somewhat darker. 
P. viuda Schs. (63 d). $ similar to that of lycaste, but much larger, abdomen above ochreous-yellow viuda. 
with black posterior margins of the segments and a black dorsal line. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, the black 
band between the cell and margin very broad, analwards very much widened. Panama. 
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