Cal.Lep.Ph. Britz. Mus. Suppl. 2:

*2020d. Hyponerita persimilis.
Hyponerita persimilis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 299 (1909),& xviii.pl. 4.
ff. 1, 37.
Male . Head and thorax crimson ;
yellow bands on frons and between
antenna1 which are crimson at base, brown at middle and white at
tips; tegulse yellow, crimson at base ; patagia yellow at base, the
tips and metathorax with brown patches; pectus and legs -yellow
tinged with crimson ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface yellow.
Fore wing brown with yellow markings strongly defined by scarlet;
a subbasal irregular patch from costa to submedian fold and streak
on hase of inner margin ; an irregular antemedial band, expanding
at costa, constricted at median nervure, then with waved inner edge ;
scarlet spots below costa and just beyond end of cell, below base of
vein li and on vein I ; a triangular postmedial patch from costa, a
patch between veins •"> and 1? conjoined to the terminal band and
spots above and below vein 1 ; a terminal yellow band, its inner
edge incurved below vein 7 and at vein L> and with series of scarlet
spots on the termen. Hind wing yellow faintly tinged with
crimson at termen.
female . Fore wing with the antemedial band not constricted at
median nervure; hind wing crimson above, pale crimson below.


Ab. 1. o . Hind wing wholly suffused with crimson.—Br. Guiana.
II, ih. I!it. <li iw\, Potaro; Brazil, dp. Amazons, Fonte Boa;
Peru, Carabaya, S. Domingo, h\ Huacamayo (Ockendi n I, type I 6
in Coll. Rothschild, R. [nambari, La Oroya. Exp., 6 -»'>, ?32
millim.