174 Mr. E. Dukinfield Jones's Descriptions of 



tornus greyish-brown ; outer half fuscous suffused witli reddish- 

 brown ; a diffused fuscous discal spot. Under-side : fore- wings 

 greyish-brown heavily suffused and irrorated with fuscous to sub- 

 terminal white line ; terminally reddish-brown ; discocellular mark 

 more conspicuous than on upper-side. Hind-wings basally greyish- 

 brown, not extending to near tornus as on upper-side ; terminal half 

 fuscous with slight reddish suffusion centrally ; discocellular spot 

 more conspicuous than on upper-side. 

 Expanse 32 mm. 



Ilab. Castro, Parand. 



Family SATURNIADiE. 



Automeris heisleri. 



^ . Palpi and antenna) orange-brown ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 greenish -grey, a slight rufous tinge on frons ; abdomen dorsally 

 fuscous. Fore-wings greenish-grey ; costa narrowly orange-brown ; 

 a fine orange-brown wavy antemedial line strongly angled out- 

 wardly in cell between origins of veins 2 and 3 ; a large darker grey 

 spot at end of cell bordered by fine orange-brown line, outwardly 

 light, inwardly dark ; postmedial and sub-terminal lines very obscure ; 

 a nearly straight orange-brown line from ^ on inner margin to apex 

 outwardly shaded with dark grey ; terminal area light ; cilia reddish- 

 brown. Hind -wings lemon-yellow, finely irrorated with dark grey 

 and heavily suffused with fuscous on inner margin ; sub-terminal 

 line narrow, black, followed by reddish-brown band ; terraen 

 greenish-grey, cilia reddish-brown; ocellus very large, black, thickly 

 scaled with reddish-brown except at edges, a larger spot beyond cell 

 and two small lateral spots, the large spot surrounded with fawn- 

 colour except at outward end ; a few scattered white scales in cell 

 and at outward end of all the spots ; a white discocellular streak. 



Expanse 91 mm. 



ffab. CURITIBA, Parana. 



Autom eris grammivora. 



$ . Palpi head and thorax reddish-brown ; abdomen dorsally dull 

 pink, ventrally dull yellow. Fore- wings light chestnut-brown, base 

 white, an antemedial yellow line from subcostal, angled outwards on 

 median, meeting by a short curve a very oblique jjostmedial yellow 

 line outwardly shaded with brown that passes close below lower 



