Calodesma collaris (Drury, 1782)

Drury, D. (1782). Illustrations of Natural History, wherein are exhibited
upwards of two hundred and twenty figures of exotic insects, according to
their different genera, vol. 3. B. White, London; p. 27, pl. XXI fig. 2 (as
Phalaena collaris; the name is given in the index of the volume, the
description on p. 27 is unnamed).

Fig. II. Expands an inch and three quarters.

Upper-side. -- The Antennae are black, and smallest at their extremities. -- The
Eyes black. -- The Thorax, Abdomen, and all the Wings are of a blueish black,
without any marks of any kind on them, except an oval white spot placed on the
superior ones, about a quarter of an inch from the tips.

Under-side. -- The Palpi are black. -- The Tongue and Neck yellow. -- The Legs,
Breast, and Abdomen grey. -- The Anus yellow. -- All the Wings are black. -- The
Superior ones having a small white longitudinal streak near the shoulders, and
the oval spot seen on the upper-side. -- The Inferior ones are also fringed with
white. The edges of all the wings are plain and even.

I received it from the Brazils.

I have not seen it in any author.

Hering, M. (1925). Pericopidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 432, pl. 60 h.

C. collaris Drury (60 h) is like contracta, but the markings are white, in the
hindwing sometimes dingy white, often indistinct or absent. In the male the
yellow colouring at the prothorax more extensive. Apex of abdomen likewise
ochreous-yellow. Band of forewing shortened, only a white spot behind the cell,
hindwing uni-coloured. Fringes in the male white, in the female black. Range as
in contracta.

The contracta paragraph referred to (same work, p. 432, pl. 60 h):

C. contracta Wkr. (60 h). Body black, head below, collar and ground of patagia
as well as prothorax below ochreous-yellow. Wings as in amica, but the markings
intensely yellow, sometimes warming into reddish. The bands are very variable in
the different examples, those of the hindwing often only traceable or entirely
absent. From Venezuela to South Brazil and Peru. The typical contracta has
uni-coloured fringes of the ground-colour of the wings. -- itaitubae subsp. nov.
from Itaituba has lighter fringes, those of the apex of the forewing white.