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deeply indentate on vein 7, starting from a small black spot on 

 costa ; a dark red line inbent from vein 7 to below vein 5 ; a 

 long narrow brown spot on discocellular. Hind wings brown ; 

 costal margin whitish expanding to post-medial shade ; a long 

 vertical fuscous brown line from upper angle of cell to below 

 lower angle ; post-medial shade fuscous brown incurved from 

 costa and almost straight to inner margin at subterminal line, 

 followed by a broad dark grayish brown shade ; subterminal 

 line grayish brown nearly vertical to below vein 4, then inbent, 

 wavy to inner margin, crossing a whitish shade and followed by 

 a black lunular shade. Fore wings below lilacine gray irro- 

 rated with dark brown; cell and costa to above discocellular 

 dark grayish brown ; a fuscous line on discocellular ; post- 

 medial line fine fuscous brown ; inner margin whitish ; termen 

 brown ; black spots above tornus. Hind wings below lilacine 

 gray thickly irrorated with brown ; a dark brown streak on 

 discocellular, post-medial line fine, fuscous brown ; termen nar- 

 rowly brown ; a whitish marginal line marked by a black line 

 between veins 6 and 7. 



Expanse, male 140 mm., female 158 mm. 



Habitat. — Balzabamba, Ecuador. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23976, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Automeris antioquia, new species. 



Male. — Head and thorax cinnamon brown, the latter paler 

 shaded behind. Abdomen above bright roseate at base ; dorsal 

 roseate tufts on basal half ; terminal half grayish tinged with 

 roseate. Body below yellow. Legs brown ; tarsi dark brown. 

 Fore wings reddish brown mottled with yellow ; a white basal 

 line ; antemedial line deep yellow slightly outbent across cell, 

 slightly inbent below cell to vein 5, outwardly edged in cell 

 and just below it by some black scaling, with a white point on 

 median, one close below it and a point on vein 1 ; a large dark 

 brown shade on and beyond discocellular ; its inner edge almost 

 straight and defined by a fine yellow line, its outer edge 

 lunular with three black points ; a black point on its inner edge 

 on median; outer line straight from costa near apex to 



