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Of contrasting shades with distinct subapical rusty patch. 



Colour very dark, obscured multnoma, Dyar. 



Colour pale, shades contrasted .... brucei, Hy. Edw. 

 Lines anastomosing, the 2nd and 3rd joining at or about the median 

 vein. 



Lines all waved, the basal one both angulated and curved. 

 Size medium, ornamentation distinct. 



Size moderate with the usual thoracic patch. 



Colour dark, a waved paler band on secondaries. 



Subapical shade rusty red vau. Fitch. 



Subapical shade brownish-red. var. ornata,G.&R. 

 Colour pale, line on secondaries lost. 



Of a pale purplish shade. . . . var. bifiria, H. E. 

 Pale, almost " sordid white". . . var. astorice,H. E. 



Larger, thoracic patch absent inornata, Neum. 



Size small, longitudinal streaks more or less evident. 



An obscure thoracic mark strigosa, Grt. 



Without any thoracic mark var. luculenta, H. E- 



Lines comparatively rigid, the basal dislocated on median vein, not 

 toothed. 



4th line white on costa. 



Subapical patch distinct, yellowish, divided by the 



veins inclusa, Hiib. 



Subapical patch darker, obscured var. inversa, Pack. 



4th line not white on costa jocosa, Hy. Edw. 



Family Saturn udje. 



Median vein of primaries 3-branched, 8 of secondaries curved, free 

 from base, and remote from subcostal ; o* antennae pectinated to the 

 tip, often doubly bipectinated ; secondaries with one or two internal 

 veins ; size large to very large. Genus Automeris, Hiibn ( = \\Hyperchiria 

 p., Walk). 



A. Io Fabr., var. argus, //. var. 



$ . — Head, thorax, body, legs and wings light yellow. Both wings 

 uniform in colour, with some darker basal tints. On secondaries a promin- 

 ent blackish-blue ocellus 1 with white central lunule, surrounded by an 

 outer semi-circular black line. 



Below a large black discal spot, with white central kernel on 

 primaries, and faint traces of the transverse lines on both wings. 



