180 HETEROCERA. 
Hab. Mexico ! (Sailé), Vera Cruz”, Jalapa (Hége, Morrison) ; Panama, Bugaba 800 
to 1000 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor. 
Walker appears to have overlooked Hiibner’s figures, and described the insect as 
Hyperchiria acutissima, and does not mention A. leucane in his catalogue. 
I have before me a large series of specimens, many of which agree perfectly with 
Hiibner’s figures, and also with Walker’s type in the British Museum. These indivi- 
duals vary considerably in colour, some examples being very pale, others quite dark 
brown ; in some the ocelli and the submarginal band on the secondaries are reddish- 
brown, but more generally dark blackish-brown. In Mexico this species appears to be 
very common, but from other localities I have only seen a few specimens. 
15. Automeris metea. 
Phalana-Bombyx Attacus metea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 27, t. 804. f. A’. 
Automeris metea, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155. 
Attacus irene, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 96, t. 249. figg. B,C *. 
Automeris irene, Hiibn. loc. cit. p. 155. 
Io irene, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 235 °. 
Hyperchiria metea, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1291 (¢)*. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).— Guiana, Surinam 123; 
Bouivia*; Braziu 4. | 
A single male example of what I believe to be this species was sent by Arcé; it 
agrees well with Cramer’s figure, but is brighter in colour. 
The larva is described as “ Verte, garnie d’épines palmées, marquée le long des 
pattes, 4 partir du troisiéme segment, d’une raie jaune bordée de pourpre en dessus,” 
and is said to feed upon the pomegranate (Punica granatum). 
16. Automeris larra. (Tab. XVII. fig. 1, ¢.) 
Hyperchiria larra, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1293 (¢ ?)'. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten).—CotomBia; Brazit, Rio Janeiro !. 
This fine species is allied to A. doops, Felder, and A. zelleri, Grote and Robinson. 
From our country I have only received one example, a male, which, apart from its 
larger size, agrees well with the type and the specimen before me from Bogota. 
17. Automeris belti, sp.n. (Tab. XVIII. figg. 3,3; 2,2.) 
Male. Primaries yellowish-brown, shaded near the base and beyond the middle with darker brown, the discal 
spot indistinct, a curved brown line, bordered inwardly with paler brown, crossing the wing from the 
apex to the middle of the inner margin ; the underside pinkish-brown, with a small black discal spot (in 
the centre of which is a white dot), and an indistinct black line from the apex to near the anal angle ; 
secondaries pinkish fawn-colour, almost pink at the base and along the inner margin, the black line wide 
and bordered on the outer edge with yellow, the disc pale yellow, the ocelli large, dark brown, broadly 
bordered with black, the centre thickly speckled with bluish-white scales; the underside pinkish-brown, 
with two submarginal indistinct black lines, the discal spot white: head and thorax dark brown; abdo- 
men pinkish-brown ; antenne pale yellowish-brown; legs dark brown. The female agrees well with the 
