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Genus Automolis, Riibner. PI. XXIX. fig. 25. 

 Euplesia, Felder ; Eucyrta (part), Felder. 



1. Automolis sphingidea = Glaucopis sphingidea, Perty, Delect. 

 Anim. pi. 31. f. 12. 



Para (Bates). B.M. 



Walker referred this species to his group Dipsenee. 



2. A. viTTiGERA = JF'eZc/e/-, Reise der Nov. Lep. iv. pi. cvi. fig. 9. 



Ega [Bates). B.M. 



Closely allied to the preceding species. 



3. A. FULGURATA, n. Sp. 



FroDS black, metallic green behind the palpi, crest with a transverse 

 orange line ; top of head black with a large, central, metallic-green 

 spot, and an orange stripe on each side; collar black in the middle, 

 orange on each side ; pterygodes orange, a black spot on the shoul- 

 ders ; thorax black, clothed with brown hairs ; abdomen jet-black, 

 with lateral and dorsal metallic-green spots : wings purplish brown, 

 primaries with the nervures pale brown ; a broad central orange streak 

 from base of inner margin to upper radial, the line of which it follows, 

 and tapers to near outer margin ; secondaries with the costal area 

 almost to apex occupied by a sharply defined orange patch : body 

 below black, pectus spotted with metallic green, trochanters of front 

 pair of legs w ith a central orange dot ; venter with lateral green dots, 

 the three basal segments with a double parallel series of orange spots': 

 ex23anse of wings 46 niillims. 



Espiritu Santo {Higgins). Type, B.M. 



4. A. SYPiLus=Sphinx sypilus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 9.9. f. A. 

 Surinam. 



This may be regarded as type oi Automolis, since it is congeneric 

 with the species proposed as type by Walker, ' Lep. Het.' vii. 

 p. 1634. 



5. A. Packardii, n. sp. 



Euchromia (Dipaense) Svpilus, Walker (nee Cramer), Lep. Het. i. p. 260. 

 n. 106. 



This species has two orange streaks in primaries, the one running from 

 near the base to near the outer margin, the other from near costa (at 

 external third) to outer margin ; the shorter streak, therefore, is 

 nearly parallel to, but slightly divergent from, the long one : expanse 

 of wings 38 raillims. 



Para and Ega (Bates). Type, B.M. 



Nearly allied to the preceding species. 



