Notophyson tiresias (Cramer, 1776)

Cramer, P. (1776). De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie
Waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America, vol. 1. S. J. Baalde, Amsterdam, and B.
Wild, Utrecht; p. 133, pl. LXXXV fig. B (as Phalaena tiresias). Translated from
the Dutch original.

Fig. B. Tiresias. The antennae of this moth are set with short hairs; the
proboscis is curled. The yellowish patches on the wings are transparent, but
the white dots at their margins are glossy; beneath, the abdomen is yellowish
in colour. At first sight one would take this moth for the Guava butterfly
(Pap. Hel. Psydii), which is figured by Miss Merian on plate XIX; but the
antennae and the shape of the abdomen give sufficient evidence that it belongs
among the moths. Mr. C. Stoll received it, among other insects, from Surinam,
and it is the only one of this kind known to me.

Hering, M. (1925). Pericopidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 446, pl. 64 e (as Dysschema tiresias).

D. tiresias Cr. (= swainsoni Drc.) (64 e). Body black, head and thorax dotted
white, abdomen above blackish-brown, two fine lateral lines yellow, beneath
yellow. Forewing black, basally with some white dots and a yellow
inner-marginal spot, above the centre of the cell with a yellow transverse band
which terminates on the axillaris before the tornus, a yellow subapical-band
between the 1st cubitus and 5th radial branch; in the yellow bands the veins
are black. A more or less complete row of white antemarginal spots. Hindwing
yellow, slightly hyaline, veins black, costal and distal margins broad black,
the latter with white submarginal spots; transverse vein hardly broader black
than the other veins. -- According to a drawing by Dr. Seitz from life, the
adult larva is black, with dense, tufted hairing of hard prickles on tubercles,
somewhat like in the larvae of Ecpantheria, the 3rd, 6th and 11th rings being
light lemon-coloured. The lustrous brown pupa lies in a very thin web, and
yielded the imago after 3 weeks.