( 475 ) 



Wings, ahote. Forewiug blackish olive, mnch v<ariegated and shaded with 



white (in fresh specimens), antemedian line indistinct, broken np into spots, 

 discal line also more or less interrupted at the veins, accompanied by white 

 Innules, slightly S-shaped, at right angles to costal margin, which it reaches 

 about 111 mm. from tip, while it crosses M- abont 13 mm. from margin; from 

 inner side of this line, at H', emanates a narrow band of the ground-colour 

 which reaches costa about mm. from discal line and proximally forms an 

 acute angle with the costal margin ; a row of white submarginal spots, spots 

 o and (placed between 11^ and M-') nearer the margin than spots 3, 4, 



and 7 ; at base a white dot. Hiudwiug blackish olive, a small basal patch 



olivaceous tawny ; ocellus as in A. anuinda, black centre smaller, iris the same 

 colour as the disc of wing ; black ring not edged with yellow or tawny ; between 

 ocellus and margin two olive-black, slightly Innulate lines, separated from one 

 another by some grey scaling, second line much widened at anal angle, externally 

 bordered by white. 



Underside dark sepia-colour ; discal and submarginal lines more or less 

 bordered with olive-grey, especially on the forewing ; ouellas inconspicuous, 

 transverse ; white stigma of hindwing very conspicuous. 



Tenth abdominal tergite long, without the dorsal club-shaped process which 

 is present in ^1. amanda Schaus (1900), proximus Conte (19iJ6), and abdoininalis 

 Feld. (1874). 



Length of forewing : 41 — 46 mm. 



Three SS from La Union, Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, Sonth-East Pern, 

 2000 ft., December 1004 (G. R. Ockenden). 



111. Automeris grammodes sp. nov. 



i. Head and thorax above ochraceons, abdomen lighter, bases of the 

 segments darker ; underside huffish ochre. 



Vpperside : forewing narrow, ochraceous, very slightly irrorated with fnscous, 

 discocelhilar patch with a conspicuous white central dot ; a black line from apex 

 of wing, which is acute but not j)niduced, to two-fifths of hind margin, practically 

 straight, of even width, bordered on inner side by a conspicuous yellow line ; no 



submarginal line. Hindwing entirely orange-ochraceons ; a black discal line 



half-way between ocellus and margin, parallel to the latter, but more strongly 

 curving basad at abdominal margin ; no submarginal line, but edge of wing 

 and base of fringes pinkish ; ocellus black with a white central dot, diameter 

 about the same as the distance from discal line. 



Underside maize-yellow, costal area of both wings washed with pinkish ochra- 

 ceons ; black discal line of forewing fading away towards hind margin ; ocellus very 



small (diameter abont \\ mm,), with white central dot. Hindwing with a rather 



ill-defined brown, straight line from near tip of costal vein to three-fifths of abdominal 

 margin. 



?. Larger than cJ, similar; brown belts of abdomen very distinct ; the white 

 dot on both wings larger, being very prominent; diameter of the somewhat angulose 

 ocellus of hindwing more than twice the length of the distance from discal line ; 

 the latter bordered on outside by a faint pinkish ochraceous line. 



On underside the ocellus of forewing larger than in 3 , irregular, with large 

 white dot ; hindwing as in iS without white dot, more irrorated with black than 

 in the other sex. 



