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3 (a). Automeris nopaltzin. (Tab. LXXXI. fig. 3, 2.) 
Automeris nopaltzin, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 290°. 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan in Vera Cruz (coll. Schaus+); Costa Rica (mus. 
Staudinger). 
Mr. Schaus states that this species is allied to A. rubrescens, Walk. We figure the type. 
8(s). Automeris moloneyi, sp.n. (Tab. LXXXI. figg. 1, ¢; 2, 2.) 
Male. Primaries brownish-yellow, the base and a spot at the end of the cell purple-brown, a zigzag narrow 
brown line, edged with yellow on the outer side, crossing the wing near the base from the costal to the 
inner margin, beyond which a nearly straight brown line, edged with yellow on the inner side, extends 
from near the apex to the inner margin, the apex and the costal margin slightly irrorated with small 
white scales, and a very faint submarginal waved yellow line running from the apex to the anal angle ; 
secondaries dark brick-red, the outer margin pale brownish-yellow, a fine submarginal black line edged 
with yellow extending from the apex to the inner margin, the ocellus small, bordered first with black and 
then with bright yellow, the centre black, irrorated with white scales, and with a white streak across the 
middle ; underside brownish-yellow, the primaries crossed beyond the cell by two pinkish lines and with 
a large black spot at the end of the cell, the secondaries crossed from the apex to the inner margin by a 
pinkish line and with a white spot at the end of the cell: head, antennsw, and thorax dark brown, the 
‘ abdomen yellowish-brown.—Female. Primaries dark reddish-brown, irrorated with white scales along the 
outer margin, in other respects as in the male ; secondaries very like those of the male, but with the outer 
margin thickly irrorated with white scales; the underside much darker. Expanse, ¢ 3, 2 3? inches. 
Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Sir Alfred Moloney, in mus. D.). 
This species is very distinct from any other known to me, and I have much pleasure 
in naming it after Sir Alfred Moloney, to whom I am indebted for the specimens. 
3(c). Automeris randa. (Tab. LXXXI. figg. 4, ¢; 5, 2.) 
Automeris randa, Druce, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xiii. p. 179 (fg 2) (1894) °. 
Male. Primaries light greyish-fawn-colour, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two yellow lines— 
the first waved, nearest the base, the second beyond the middle, slightly curved near the apex,—and with 
a dark spot at the end of the cell, four little black dots round it, and a sinuous pale line towards the 
outer margin; secondaries pinkish-yellow, the ocellus large and fawn-coloured, broadly bordered with 
deep black, with a central white spot slightly below the middle and nearest the apex, a submarginal 
broken black line edged with yellow extending from near the apex almost to the anal angle, and below 
the black line a wide reddish-fawn-coloured band, the outer margin broadly edged with fawn-colour ; the 
fringe pale fawn-colour; the underside yellowish-fawn-colour, the primaries with a large round black 
spot at the end of the cell, with a white dot in the centre, the secondaries with a white spot at the end 
of the cell: head and thorax dark reddish-brown ; abdomen pale yellow; antennz yellowish-brown.— 
Female. Very similar to the male, but larger and rather darker, with all the markings more distinct. 
Expanse, ¢ 4, 2 42? inches. 
Hab. Mexico, near Durango city (Becker 1); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, 
in mus. Staudinger). 
Allied to A. rubrescens, Walk., but quite distinct. 
Automeris cecrops (I. p. 178). 
To the locality given, add :—Mexico, Puebla (Ff. D. G.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Trotsch, in mus. Staudinger). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. II., November 1897. 3 hh 
