AUTOMOLIS. lol 



crimson with white dorsal spol a1 base, the extremity and ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing with the basal half pale ochreous brown 

 with black stripes in the interspaces and white patch at base of 

 inner margin, its miter edge excurved at end of cell, bent outwards 

 below vein '■> and ending at tornus, the apical half pure white with 

 tin' costal edge black and a small rather elongate black subterminal 

 .-pot below vein (!. Mind wing white, the inner half suffused with 

 crimson. Underside id' fore wing wholly white. 



Ildb. Costa LIica, Tuis (Schaus), 1 8 . Exp. 46 millim. 



*1263«. Automolis ochracea. 



Automolis ochracea, Roths. Nov. Zool. \vi. p. 37, pi. 5. f. 29 (1909). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow; palpi whitish. 

 black behind and at extremity of 2nd joint ; fc'rons and tegulae pure 

 white; pro- and metathorax with whitish patches with pairs of 

 black spots on them; legs whitish tinged with brown; ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing orange-yellow; a 

 triangular white patch extending mi costa from base to before 

 middle and narrowing to inner margin, two small black spots mi it 

 at base below costa followed by two subbasal spots with two small 

 obliquely placed triangular blue-black spots in subniedian inter- 

 space and a small spot above inner margin ; a medial white band 

 expanding widely at costa with a blue-black band near its outer 

 edge formed by a slight streak below costa, then bar-shaped spots 

 separated by the white discocellulars, then rather elongate spots 

 separated by the white veins and subniedian fold. Hind wing pale 

 semihyaline ochreous. 



Hab. Peru, Carabaya, S. Domingo (Ockenden), type t 8 in 

 Coll. Rothschild, R. Enambari, La Oroya, Exp. 34 millim. 



L266o. Automolis pichesensis. (Plate XLVI. fig. 13.) 



Idalus pichesensis, Dyar, Psyche, viii. p. L98 (1898). 



Automolis coacta, Dogn. Aim. Sec. Ent. Belg. xlvi. p. L*:il (1902). 



cj . Head white, palpi behind and sides of frmis blackish, vertex 

 of head yellow ; antenna- brown ; thorax white, the tips of tegulae, 

 patagia, and metathorax deep crimson, orange patches on basal 

 upper edge of patagia and mesothorax and a black bar mi pro- 

 thorax; pectus crimson in front: fore legs striped with f uscous ; 

 abdomen crimson, the extremity and ventral surface white. bore 

 wine- pale yellow, the base white with seven black streaks extending 

 further on inner margin where they meet the incurved medial 

 band formed by short black streaks on a white ground, longer at 

 costa and black bars on each side of discocellulars; costal area 

 white; cilia white. Hind wing white, thinly scaled. 



Huh. \V. Colombia, San Antonio {Palmer), 2 ' ; Ecuador, 

 Loja, type f 6 coacta in Coll. Dognin ; Peru, Piches. Exp. 

 •52 millim. 



