1G0 LITHOSIAD.T. 



*1279«. Automolis carinosa. (Plate XL VI. fig. 20.) 

 Automolis carinosa, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mns. xxix. p. 215 (1905). 



d . Head and front of thorax white, the latter with some crimson 

 irroration ; palpi above, a bar across frons, and antenna 1 brown ; 

 the rest of thorax fulvous yellow with slight fuscous marks on 

 ineso- and metathorax on which there is a white patch; pectus 

 white with some crimson below the shoulders ; legs white banded 

 with black; abdomen crimson with dorsal series of white points, the 

 anal tuft and ventral surface white. Fore wing pale yellow, some 

 crimson at base of inner margin, followed by an oblique purple- 

 fuscous hand from hase of costa to middle of inner margin inter- 

 sected by white streaks on the veins ; a similar postmedial hand 

 expanding on costa and inner margin and defined on each side by 

 white ; the medial area with some white on costa and outer edge 

 of antemedial hand. Hind wing semihyaline white, the inner 

 half tinged with crimson, more deeply towards tornus. 



JLib. Bbazil, Rio Janeiro, type f 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



*127fl b. Automolis luridoides. 

 Automolis luridoides, Roths. Nov.Zool. xvii. p. 19. pi. 13. f. 33 (1909). 



cT . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale orange-yellow, the dorsum 

 of thorax grey-blue; palpi and frons brownish; antennas brown; 

 fore and mid legs brownish ; the fore tibiae with black marks at 

 middle and extremity, the mid tibiae at hase and middle and the 

 hind tibiae at base and extremity, the tarsi white ringed with 

 black; ventral surface of abdomen pale yellow. Fore wing pale 

 orange-yellow ; an oblique conical grey-blue basal patch from costa 

 to vein 1, dilated on costa to base, an elliptical patch from middle 

 of costa to near tcrnien helow vein 2, and an oblique hemispherical 

 suhapical patch, all with rather darker edges defined by white. 

 1 1 hid wing pale yellow. 



ILih. Brazil, Minas Greraes, Preto, type f 6 hi Coll. Koth- 

 schild. E.c/i. 36 millim. 



12S0. Automolis superba, del. Automolis solum. 



3 . Similar to female, hut the abdomen with the blue-black 

 patch restricted to the two terminal segments. 

 Fh. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, in Coll. Joicey. 



1280 a. Automolis salma, Druce. 



The f, male differs from the male in having a slight black mark 

 al tornus of hind w ing. 





