Chetone ithrana intersecta (Hering, 1925)

Butler, A. G. (1871). Descriptions of some new species of Lepidoptera,
chiefly from the collection of Mr. Wilson Saunders. Annals and Magazine of
Natural History (4) 8: 282-290;
p. 286 (as Pericopis ithrana). Translated from the Latin original.

2. Pericopis Ithrana, n. sp.

Fore wings above blackish brown; basal area streaked with tawny; with two white
basal dots; with a very large yellow median patch, intersected by the costal and
median veins and by the first branch of the latter; with four decreasing
subapical spots of the same colour, obliquely placed; with seven white
submarginal dots: hind wings orange, veined with black; outer margin broadly
black; with seven orange spear-shaped submarginal spots: body with the thorax
black, dotted with white; abdomen brown.

Wings beneath almost as above: fore wings with the basal area reddish orange;
discoidal cell brown at the base: hind wings with the submarginal spots
continuous with the ground colour (so that the hind margin is interrupted
between the veins): body with the thorax black, dotted with white; abdomen
ochreous-whitish, with a black line on the side.

Exp. alar. unc. 3, lin. 2.

Hab. Amazons. Coll. Saunders.

Mimics Heliconius Æde, Hübner, or some nearly allied species.

Hering, M. (1925). Pericopidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 438, pl. 62 c (as Pericopis phaeba). The sentences on the form
intersecta in this paragraph are the original description of Pericopis phaeba
intersecta Hering, 1925 (Seitz vol. 6: 438, pl. 62 c).

P. phaeba Bsd. (= ithrana Btlr.) (62 c). Head and thorax black, dotted white and
ochreous, abdomen above brown, beneath straw-coloured. Forewing blackish-brown,
at the base one or several longitudinal lines varying from red to
ochreous-brown, with a yellow broad discal band ending obtuse at the 2nd cubitus
or pointed behind it, 1 to 4 yellow subapical spots and a series of white
marginal spots. Hindwing with a broad black costal margin and distal margin, in
the latter a series of marginal spots varying from ochreous-yellow to red-brown,
the veins thickly black, otherwise ochreous-yellow to red-brown. Guatemala to
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Upper Amazon River. -- In the form intersecta form.
nov. (62 c) the marginal band of the hindwing is broken up into thick black
streaks which are situate to the right and left of the ends of the veins; the
basal parts of the veins are less thickly black. As this form only occurs in the
Amazon District and Eastern Peru, it is perhaps the southern race of the
species, but perhaps also a distinct species. It copies Heliconius aoede Hbn.
(Vol. V, t. 76 f).