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tiegineiits, the ventral surface with orange bands. Fore wing with 

 three white streaks below base of costa and another in lower end of 

 cell; a wedge-shaped white patch with its apex bej'ond upper 

 angle of cell and base near tcrmen ; streaks on veins 3 and 2 and 

 in siibmediaii fold not quite reaching terraen and a wedge-shaped 

 streak on vein 1. lliiid wing with whitish pat^h below and beyond 

 ^ell, forming three elongate marks on underside. 



Uah. Panama, type t $ subuUfem in Coll. Rothschild ; Beazil, 

 Rio Janeiro, 1 9 type. E^vj). 4(5 millim. 



1274. Automolis separata. ( Plate XXXVI. fig. 5.) 



Ap//re sepa>'ata,Wl]i. ii. 491 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 171. 



5 . Head orange ; palpi with lateral black spots on 1st and 2nd 

 joints ; antenme brown, white above ; thorax brown, slightly 

 streaked with grey ; tegular orange in front, fore coxa; orange, legs 

 striped with wliitc ; abdomen black, the 2nd, :3rd, and 4th segments 

 orange above. Fore wing brown, the veins streaked with grey. 

 Hind wing fuscous black, Avith large orange medial patch extending 

 from middle of cell to inner margin and terineu near tornus. 

 Hah. Amazons, Ega (Bates), 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 



127;"). Automolis fulgurata. 



Aiifo7iiolisfu/(jurafa,Jiut\.Joum. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 420 (1876) ; id. 

 111. Lep. liet. B. M. i. p. 46, pi. 18. f. .5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 167. 



2 . Black-brown ; frons, vertex of head, and coxa? behind with 

 patches of metallic blue ; a slight orange bar above frons, two spots 

 above eyes, and points on fore cosaj in front ; broad orange stripes on 

 tegulic and patagia ; al)domen black, with dorsal series of metallic 

 blue spots on last four segments and lateral series, the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments with sublateral orange sjjots. Fore wing with broad 

 oblique orange fascia from base of inner margin to vein 6, along 

 which it runs to a point near termen ; the veins with slight pale 

 streaks. Hind wing with orange fascia from base to near apex, 

 extending from subcostal nerviire to below the cell, its lower edge 

 curved. 



f/(i>>. BpaziL, Espiritu Santo, 1 $ type. E^'j). 48 millim. 



1270. Automolis chrysomelas. 



Automolis chrysomehis, Wlk. vii. 1636 (1856) ; Kirby. Cat. Het. p. 168. 

 Muci/rta (jcometrka, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 6 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p'. I(i7. 



Black ; frons metallic blue, two blue points between antenme, 

 back of head with orange spots : thorax orange above with dorsal 

 black stripe ; abdomen with dorsal mctallii' blue spots on terminal 

 segments and a lateral series, sublateral white spots on first three 

 fiegments. Fore wing with the veins greyish ; a broad oblique 

 orange fascia from base of inner margin to subcostal nervure near 

 end of cell and vein 4 near tornus; a large triangular subajucal 



