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ZAPARASA. By H. G. Dyar f. 
laranda. 
const rid a. 
laonome. 
indderntina. 
chloris. 
Cuernavaca. 
minima. 
may si. 
viridogrisea. 
mioncxia. 
minuta. 
ccbrenis. 
schausi. 
sylvia. 
P. laranda Drc. (164 h) has a very narrow distal margin with only a short discal dent; the basal area 
is also narrow, intermixed with yellow; discal dot dark, mixed with yellow in the $. Hindwing dark brown. 
Expanse of wings: <$ 30, $ 34 mm. Guatemala. 
P. eonstricta Her. <&• Hopp. likewise shows a but narrow brown margin with a long sharp discal dent, 
without a discal dot (dark green). Hindwing dark brown. Expanse of wings: 38 mm; $ unknown. Panama. 
P. laonome Drc. (164 h) resembles laranda, but it lacks its yellow infiltration in the basal area; marginal 
area often dusted lilac, with a broad discal dent, narrow below it; a dark discal dot. Expanse of wings: $ 25—30, 
$ 33 -36 mm. Mexico; Guatemala. Druce’s figure shows the margin of the forewing roundly expanded sub- 
medianly; none of our specimens shows this behaviour, but Hering <£■ Hopp find it to be variable. 
P. indeterffiiraa Bsd. (= vernata Pack.). Forewing bright green, basal and marginal areas wood-brown, 
without dents, a dark spot in the brown margin of the forewing. Hindwing yellowish, dusted brown at the 
margin. Expanse of wings: $ 22—28, $ 24—30 mm. Larva yellow or red, with undulating purple lines on the 
dorsum and laterally; horns variably long, some long, yellow or bright red, the lateral horns short. It lives on 
different low shrubs. New York, West Virginia. 
P. chloris H.-S. (= viridis Peak., fraterna Grt.) (164 h). Forewing somewhat narrow, triangular; the 
brown basal area is obliquely cut off, the marginal band broad, wood-brown, with darker striped veins, the green 
colour reaches the base of the wing. Hindwing yellow in the basal half, distal half brown. Expanse of wings: 
<3 16—22, $ 23—25 mm. Larva with a hunch in front, tapering behind into a pointed tail, brown mixed with 
reddish, all the horns very short and insignificant. On oaks and other foliage-trees. Massachusetts, New York, 
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina. 
P. cuerrsavaca Dyar (164 i) resembles chloris, except the green colour not distinctly reaching to the base 
of the fore wing in the <$, and the brown colour is darker. Specimens from different habitats vary much in size. 
Expanse of wings: 12—22, $ 24 mm. Mexico, San Salvador, Costa Rica. 
P. minima Schs. (164 i) has a narrower green band than Cuernavaca, the dark basal area is broad; darker 
than the margin. Expanse of wings: 16- 18, $ 18 mm. Mexico (Eastern Coast). 
P. maysi Schs. has more pointed wings than minima, the dark areas dark brown. Hindwing blackish, 
scantily scaled in the disc. Expanse of wings: 16—18 mm; $ unknown. Guatemala. 
P. viridogrisea Dyar. £ dark brown, the wing divided by a light undulating line, the basal half more 
reddish than the distal half. $ with a narrow green band bending towards the base, bordered with reddish 
outside. Expanse of wings: $ 24—28, $ 31 mm. Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica. 
P. mioiiexia Dyar. Forewing of $ dark brown, the base chocolate brown, a median band red-brown, the 
marginal area lighter brown; hindwing light reddish brown. $ with a rather broad green band in the place of 
the red median band of the <$. Expanse of wings: 19—22, $ 24 mm. Argentina. 
P. minuta Her. <£• Hopp differs from mionexia in the light brown basal area which is coloured like the 
marginal area, a darker brown median band bordered by a whitish line on both sides. Expanse of wings: o 
17 mm; $ unknown. Brazil. 
P. cebrenis Schs. (= lysia Drc.) (164 i). Forewing of <$ broadly red-brown in the middle, the base and 
marginal area grey, the colours intergrading; hindwing blackish, red-brown along the inner margin. $ with a 
broad shaded green median band, the margin two-coloured, red inside, grey outside. Expanse of wings: <$ 17—20, 
$ 24—26 mm. Mexico. 
P. schausi Dyar (164 i). Forewing of $ dark red-brown in the middle, the base and margin blackish, the 
colours not contrasting; hindwing blackish, scantily scaled in the disc. $ with a green band bordered with 
reddish on both sides, the base, margin and hindwing blackish. Expanse of wings: $ 20—25, $ 30—33 mm. 
Guatemala, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Amazons). 
9. Genus: Zaparasa Dyar. 
Separated from the preceding genus bv the absence of the spurs on the posterior tibiae. Moreover, the 
forewing shows veins 7 and 8 stalked, 9 absent, 10 arises from the cell. Only two species similar to the preceding 
genus, but much weaker. 
Z. sylvia Dyar (164 i). Forewing light green, the basal half of the costal margin with a round light brown 
spot crossing the cell; the light brown distal margin is somewhat excavated subcostally, more so medianly. 
Hindwing yellowish white. Expanse of wings: $ 23 mm; $ unknown. Mexico. 
