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ami shaft below sooty-grey ; frons wliitisli, vertex orange; 

 iljorax white; abdomen, basal segment white, rest orange. 

 Wings sericeous milk-white. 



Lengtli of fore wing 21-2i mm. ; expanse 48-52 mm. 



7 <S 6 caught, Lima, Peru. 



2. Idalus admirabilis (Cram.). 



Phalcciia admirabilis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. ii. pt. ix. [). 11, pi. ciii. 

 tig. G (1777) (Surinam). 



1 very large ^ cauglit, Chauehamayo Distriet. 



3. Automo/is cunlraria. Walk., subsp. ? 



1 ? , from the Rio Madeira, caught. 



Tlicre are at least two subspecies of contraria ; and the 

 above specimen differs from typical ? ? in liaviug a very 

 small subapical white spot, and apparently narrower black 

 margins. It also has a yellow costa up to the black apex, 

 while typical ? ? have the costa black. 



Probably, therefore, further specimens would prove the 

 existence of a third subspecies. 



\_AutomoUs coitraria peruviana, subsp. n. 



? . Differs from contraria contraria in the very much 

 wilier black apex to fore wings, in the much larger white 

 subapical spots, in the yellow not black inner margin of 

 fore wings, and in tlie much narrower black margins to fore 

 and hind wings. 



1 ? , La Union, Bio Huacamayo, Carabaya, 2000 ft., 

 Dec. 1904 (wet season) (G. Ockenden).'\ 



4. Automolis drucei, sp. n. 



? . Nearest to dissirnilis, Druce. Differs in pectus being 

 orange not black, in the black not grey and brown pulpi 

 and legs, and in the entirely black abdomen with last seg- 

 ment and anal tuft huffish grey ; a grey spot on each side of 

 sixtli segment. 



Fore wings differ in being darker grey, the nervurcs 

 rufous not whitish ; the costa while not dark buff'. The 

 hiud wings are darker. 



Length of fore wing 32 mm. ; expanse 72 mm. 



1 ? bi'ed (cocoon grey, somewhat loose-webbed, hammock- 

 shaped ; pupa rufous, glossy, somewhat densely clothed ou 

 sides and dorsally with rufous hair, cremaster long, dart- 

 shaped, sharply pointed). 



