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tales (Belt); Costa Rica (Boucard, in mus. D., Van Patten); Panama (mus. 
Oxford). 
The Mexican specimens are larger and brighter in colour than the type from Guate- 
mala. In our country this species appears to be common and widely distributed. 
Walker records a large dark variety from Honduras and Venezuela!, in which 
the exterior band is undulating and more remote from the ocellus: the Honduras 
specimen is, I believe, A. arminia, Cram.; the one from Venezuela is a distinct species. 
4. Automeris banus. (Tab. XVI. fig. 8, 9; Tab. XVII. fig. 1, ¢.) 
Io banus, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 212(?)’. 
_ Hab. Mexico! ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Arcé, in mus. D., 3; 
Champion, ¢ ). 
IT am much indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the loan of Boisduval’s type. I have 
not the slightest doubt that the specimen sent by Arcé from Chiriqui is the male of 
A. banus, the underside of the two insects being identical. The female specimen sent 
by Mr. Champion is considerably darker brown in colour, owing to its being in very 
fresh condition ; in other respects it does not differ from Boisduval’s type. This species 
is allied to A. rubrescens, Walker. 
5. Automeris cinctistriga. 
Hyperchiria cinctistriga, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 89. f. 4, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p.5 (¢)'. 
fo cinctistriga, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 216 ?. 
Hab. GuatEMaLa, Chiacam, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion); Costa Rica, Cache 
(Rogers).—Co.tomBia !, Bogota; AMAZONS. 
This species is allied to A. salmone, Cram., but I think distinct ; from Guatemala I 
have only seen female specimens. 
Boisduval ? says he has not seen a specimen of this species, and describes it from 
Felder’s figure; he gives Central America as the locality. Felder, however, gives 
Bogota. 
6. Automeris zurobara, sp.n. (Tab. XVII. fig. 2, 2.) 
Female. Brown, the primaries crossed by two narrow yellowish lines (the first near the base, the ‘second 
extending from the apex to the inner margin), and with a darker brown spot at the end of the cell; the 
underside reddish-brown, with a large black discal spot (in the centre of which is a small white dot), and 
a brown line (bordered on the outer side with dark brown) extending from the apex to the inner margin 
near the middle; secondaries reddish-brown, fawn-colour along the exterior border, near which is a 
slender undulating black yellow-bordered band, the ocellus is large, round, bordered with black, the 
centre black with a white streak through the middle ; the underside reddish brown, with a small white 
discal spot and a brown line extending from the apex to the inner margin: head and thorax dark 
brown ; abdomen yellowish-brown ; antennse and legs brown. Expanse 3 inches. 
Hab. Panama (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
This species is quite distinct; it is allied to A. cinetistriga, Felder. 
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