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*124<9d. Automolis asteroides. 

 Automolis asteroides, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. xxix. p. 214 (1905). 



Antenna' of male serrate and Fasciculate; Fore wing with small 

 gland and tuft of hair at base of costa and large patch of andro- 

 conia below the cell on underside; veins 4,5 shortly stalked and 

 7, 8, 9, 10 on a very long stalk ; hind wing with the base of costa 

 Fringed with hair, a large round patch of dark scales in cell on 

 upperside. 



d. Head and thorax yellowish white suffused with brown; 

 patagia with small white spots; abdomen brown with large crim- 

 son subdorsal patches on medial segments, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing white suffused with brown ; three white points 

 at base, two obliquely placed below base of vein 2, the terminal 



Fig. 59. — Automolis asteroides, <$ • ]• 



half of inner area with pale stria?; the interspaces of terminal area 

 from vein 8 to 3 very pale yellow leaving the veins brown, a small 

 spot on termen below vein 3, the brown area running out to an 

 acute point on vein 5. Hind wing white suffused with brown. 

 Underside white; fore wing with the cell and area just below and 

 beyond its extremity dark brown. 



Hab. Fk. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type f 6 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 30 millim. 



*1249(?. Automolis vinasia. 



Automolis vinasia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 201 (1910). 



Antemue of male serrate and fasciculate; fore wing with small 

 gland and tuft of hair at base of costa ; veins 4, 5 from cell ; 7, 8, 

 9, 10 normally stalked ; bind wing with the costa highly arched, a 

 small patch of ochreous androconia in the cell on upperside. 



6. Head and thorax whitish with some brown suffusion, the 

 tegukc with dorsal and lateral pale brown patches, the patagia 

 brown with two white spots ; palpi white with some yellow-brown 

 in front towards tips ; antennae brown, white towards tips ; pectus 

 and legs pure Avhite, the fore femora broAvn on inner side ; abdomen 

 deep crimson, the extremity yellov , the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing brown, the apical area yellow from costa above 

 end of cell to termen at vein 3 below which there is a short oblique 



