46 ARCTIAD^. 



and ventral surface of abdomen orange ; abdomen bluish above 

 towards extremity; wings white, the veins brownish; fore wing 

 with the base, costa, and termen towards tornus black-brown. 



Hah. Venezuela, Area. Exp. 52 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Schaus. 



h^. (Apico7?oma). Hind wing with the tornus not lobed ; antenna; with the 

 branches longer. 



a"^. Tiiorax blackish apicalis. 



h-. Thorax fulvous lutosa {2)- 



1258. Automolis apicalis. 



Euchromia apicalis, Wlk. i. 261 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 170. 



S . Elack-brown ; frons and pectus with slight patches of 

 metallic blue : abdomen with metallic blue patch on terminal seg- 

 ment, dorsal bands on the three next segments, and short subdorsal 



Fig. 41. — Automolis apicalis, (^ . \. 



bands on the next two ; a sublateral series of spots. Fore wing 

 with oblique wedge-shaped band from below costa beyond middle ro 

 just below vein 2 near termen and varying somewhat in width. 

 Ilah. Amazons, Pani (Bates), 3 J, type. Exjy. 40 millim. 



*1259. Automolis lutosa. 



E/npiisa lutosa, 'H.uhn. Summl. ex. Schmett. ii. (1827); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 210. 

 Idalus linaca, Doguin, Ann. See. Ent. Beige, xlii. p. 345 (1898). 



2 . Pale gre5'-brown with a slight purplish tinge; head and thorax 

 except tips of patagia fulvous ; coxae fulvous ; abdomen fulvous, 

 the dorsal surface mostly grey-brown except last two segments. 

 Pore wing with whitish maculate band just beyond the cell from 

 vein 7 to 3, then incurved and obsolescent. Hind Aving with the 

 cell and costal area to beyond middle yellow-brown ; faint traces of 

 a curved whitish postmedial band. 



Ilah. PAEAGXJAy, type t ? linaza in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 

 GO millim. 



Hiibner's figure shows a broad diffused white band extending 

 into the cell on both wings ; his specimens were probably from 

 Surinam, and may belong to a distinct subspecies from linaza. 



