136 LlTHOSIAD.ffi. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen velvety black ; palpi with white 

 points at extremities of 1st and 2nd joints. Fore wing velvety 

 black ; a very oblique moderately broad yellow band from costa 

 just beyond middle to beyond vein 2 near termen ; the rough scales 

 of eilia greyish. Hind wing black, the costal area to just below 

 cell scaleless above with the small round patch of pale androconia 

 on it in end of cell. 



Hah. Peru, R. Inambari, La Oroya (Ockenden), type f J in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 38 millim. 



Subsp. 1. lativitta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 40, pi. 5. f. 42 (1909). 



Fore wing with the orange band much broader ; palpi with white 

 point at extremity of 1st joint only. 



Hah. Brazil, Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klar/es), type f S in 

 Coll. Rothschild. 



1250. Automolis reducta, insert : — 

 Automolis reducta, sordida, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 480 (1917). 



The S. Brazil form with the costal fascia on fore wing and sub- 

 terminal band broader. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 



*12o0a. Automolis fassli. (Plate XLV. fig. 28.) 



Automolis fassli, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, i. p. 8 (1910). 



c? • Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; palpi black 

 except towards base ; antennae blackish ; femora at extremities, the 

 tibiae and tarsi fuscous. Fore wing pale orange-yellow, the costal 

 edge black, the cilia tinged with fuscous. Hind wing pale orange- 

 yellow. Underside of fore wing with the costa fuscous, the apical 

 area irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Colombia, San Antonio (Eassl), type f 6 in Coll. Dognin. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



*12ol a. Automolis metacrinis. 



Automolis metacrinis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 37, pi. 5. f. 27 (1909). 



J. Head and thorax white; palpi blackish behind; frons with 

 lateral blackish spots ; antenna' brown ; tcguhe tinged with crimson 

 m front and with crimson patch at tips, the patagia with crimson 

 fascia on upper edge; prothorax with pair of black spots; pectus 

 and legs white, the throat crimson, the fore tibiae with black ring 

 a1 extremity; abdomen crimson, the extremity and ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing white, the terminal half semihyaline except at 

 costa and inner margin ; a slight crimson streak at base of inner 

 margin; an oblique subbasal band formed of black streaks in the 

 interspaces from below costa to above inner margin, narrowing 

 below; an obliquely curved medial black band formed of streak:- 



