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PERICOPIS. By Dr. M. Hering. 
pida. 
puhites. 
fulgorata. 
fenestrata. 
grassator. 
s acrifica. 
dissimulata. 
mosera. 
moseroides. 
arema. 
imitata. 
P. pida Guer. ( = capella Drc.) (64 c) resembles forbesi, in the forewing the subapical band is like in 
indecisa , slender and straight, almost reaching to the distal margin. Hindwing in contrast with forbesi with 
white or yellowish small submarginal spots. Brazil. 
Po puhites Drc. (described as Hyalurga). Head and collar pale yellow, thorax and abdomen brown, 
with a central bluish-white line; abdomen beneath dusky white, anus orange. Wings greyish hyaline, the 
margins of the forewing black, the broadest at the apex, with a black transverse band to the tornus, enclosing 
an oval, white, black-veined spot. Hindwing as in the $ of amphissa (64 b), veins broad black. Although the 
species was not before me, I do not doubt that it belongs to the Pericopis being similar to Coborlsa. Pipper 
Amazon River. 
Pc fulgorata Btlr. was not before me. Forewing in the marking similar to P. ( Thebrone) hilarina 
Weym. (63 c), hindwing yellow, veins black, transverse vein with a broad black band, margin with a dentate 
black band. Body black, thorax with yellow spots, abdomen yellowish, at the end greenish, with a black dorsal 
and lateral line, beneath yellow. Para. 
P. fenestrata Wkr. (64 c). <§. Still more thinly scaled than amphissa-^ (vestalis ), distal margin of 
forewing somewhat convex (in vestalis straight); blackish are in the forewing at most the transverse band, 
costa, veins, and minute spots at the margin, in the hindwing some spots on the veins at the margin at most. 
Otherwise like amphissa Mexico. 
P. grassator sp. n. (64 c). In the habitus somewhat like P. thyridina Btlr. (62 d), in both sexes the 
body is black, thorax and patagia mostly dotted, abdomen above greenish, beneath brimstone-coloured, dorsal 
line and lateral line black. Wings longer and more extended than in thyridina, the hyaline basal part of the 
forewing is more broadly separated, in the hindwing the transverse vein is broader black, the posterior margin 
of the cell black. Colombia to Peru. types in the Berlin Museum from Puerto S. Rosa — The species, 
in its exterior, recalls species of Thyridia. 
P. sacrifica Hbn. (= crucifera Perty) (64 c). Body blackish-brown, half of the collar, base of patagia, 
two subdorsal and two smaller lateral rows of spots yellow. Forewing blackish-brown, basally with 2 red dots, 
with a whitish hyaline marking resembling a —. Hindwing with a brown margin, before it a row of white spots 
before which there is a red, black-edged band; the rest of the wing in the whitish hyaline, in the $ brown 
with some yellowish-white spots distally to the cell. In the whole of South America as far as Argentina. — 
The larva lives on Compositae (Senecio balansae, and a species of Eupatorium), it is greyish-yellow, with a 
narrow dorsal line, a broader subdorsal line, 3 narrow lateral lines, a broader subventral line and a narrow 
ventral line, all of which are dull purple red. Tubercles ochreous-yellow, one on the 2nd, two on the 4th, two 
on the 10th and 1 on the 13th abdominal segments blackish-purple. Pupa blackish-brown, with a violet 
lustre, with small ochreous-yellow bristles, 
P. dissimulata Wkr. (= madana Drc.) (64 d). Body blackish-brown, head, collar, patagia and thorax 
with bluish-white dots. Abdomen with two bluish-grey subdorsal lines, otherwise black, beneath yellow. Wings 
blackish-brown, the lighter markings whitish hyaline; in the forewing are hyaline: a basal triangle between 
the costal margin and proximal margin, a broad discal band as far as the tornus, a subapical band terminating 
before the centre of the distal margin, the two latter bands being above, but not beneath, connected by a 
hyaline spot. Sometimes there are white submarginal spots. Hindwing whitish hyaline, costa, margin, and 
the broad transverse vein and the veins are black, the margin with white submarginal spots. The black parts 
of both wings are more or less dusted with red-brown. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador. 
P, mosera Drc. is perhaps the of dissimulata. On the whole smaller, the collar with yellow instead 
of white spots. The subapical band of the forewing almost reaches to the distal margin. Colombia, Peru. 
P. moseroides sp. n. is in every way a true image of mosera, but on both wings the whitish-hyaline 
places are brownish-yellow hyaline, the shade of the colouring like in joiceyi (63 g), abdomen above greenish- 
yellow with a black dorsal line. The transverse vein of the hindwing is less broad black. Forewing with the 
same very convex distal margin as in mosera. Both are perhaps seasonal dimorphisms of one species. Bolivia. 
J type from the Rio Songo in the Berlin Museum. 
P. arema Bsd. (64 d). This species, and those allied to it, strongly recall the species of Thebrone, but 
the S and $ are similarly coloured and marked. Forewing blackish-brown with a hyaline triangular spot at 
the base, a similar discal and subapical band, both being behind the cell connected. Hindwing whitish hyaline, 
distally scaled somewhat yellow, costa and distal margin broad black with a row of white submarginal spots. 
Body brown, patagia at the base yellow. Abdomen with two subdorsal rows of yellow spots, a red anal tuft, 
with two ventral rows of yellow spots. Nicaragua, Venezuela. 
P. imitafa Drc. (64 d) resembles arema. Abdomen with subdorsal spots varying from greenish to 
bluish-grey, beneath only with one row of spots in the forewing. The hyaline places are more brownish, the 
dark band through the centre of the cell broader, hindwing with a broader black distal margin (particularly 
at the anal angle), the discal area uniformly hyaline greenish-yellow. Bolivia, Peru. 
