56 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



middle of inner margin, dark reddish brown inwardly finely 

 edged with white expanding into points on veins; a broad 

 reddish brown vertical shade from costa to outer line post- 

 medially; some fuscous subterminal spots. Hind wings bril- 

 liant rose color, ocellus very large, the center steel gray broadly 

 edged with black and then with a fine yellow brown and white 

 line; the center of ocellus with black and white scaling sur- 

 mounted by a curved white line, above it an angled brownish 

 yellow line, below it a single line ; a fine black, deeply lunular 

 line below ocellus outwardly edged by a broad reddish brown 

 shade ; termen pale roseate, crossed by yellow veins ; a terminal 

 dark brown line ; cilia deep yellow. Fore wings below yellow, 

 the costal and outer margins irrorated with reddish brown ; 

 a very large black discal spot containing a white point ; outer 

 line more remote from apex, fine, fuscous wavy, interrupted 

 by veins ; base of inner margin reddish. Hind wings below 

 yellow irrorated with reddish brown ; a white point finely 

 edged with black at lower angle of cell ; a fine post-medial 

 lunular wavy line ; subterminal dark spots on interspaces. 



Expanse, 97 mm. 



Habitat. — Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. 



Type.— Csit. No. 33977, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Automeris curitiba, new species. 



Male. — Head, collar and thorax dull grayish brown, the 

 patagia outwardly with a tuft of luteous hairs. Abdomen 

 above purplish red, underneath and anal hairs ochreous. Fore 

 wings : base broadly and costal margin shaded with light 

 ochreous brown, the termen light olive brown ; discocellular 

 spot very faint and linear ; a straight line from apex to inner 

 margin near middle, inwardly roseate white preceded by 

 similar shading, outwardly olive brown slightly darker than 

 terminal space. Hind wings : cell and inner margin broadly 

 covered with purplish red hairs reaching the inner side of 

 ocellus, which is otherwise surrounded by yellow ; the ocellus 

 broadly circled with black, its center dark brown crossed by a 

 white line, and showing some white beneath the brown scaling ; 



