INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 167 



spotted with light cinnamon drab. Thorax brown ; patagia 

 light cinnamon drab edged with white. Abdomen yellow, the 

 last four segments black ; some dark gray tufts at base ; under- 

 neath white. Legs white ; fore coxae and streaks on fore tibiae 

 light cinnamon drab. Fore wings cinnamon drab; costal, a 

 streak below it, subcostal, median, discocellular, submedian and 

 veins 2, 3, 4, white; tips of veins 5, 6, 7, 11, white; a white 

 line along inner margin ; a subbasal curved white line ; an 

 inbent thick white antemedial line expanding below cell with 

 a projecting line on fold; a white spot medially in cell; a 

 postmedial line of white points, curved below costa and inbent 

 to middle of inner margin. Hind wings thinly scaled light 

 cinnamon drab. Fore wings below with white postmedial 

 punctiform line, and the veins terminally white. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Canal Zone, Panama. 



Type.— Cat No. 24911, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Veins 3 and 5, and 6 and 7 on hind wing well stalked. 



The fore wing looks superficially like Automolis pulverosa 

 Schaus. 

 Automolis pretiosa, new species. 



Female. — Palpi and head brown black. Frons metallic blue. 

 Collar and thorax apricot orange ; a dorsal black line from 

 vertex to abdomen. Abdomen black with dorsal and lateral 

 blue spots ; some sublateral white points on abdomen under- 

 neath near base. Legs fuscous brown. Fore wings apricot 

 orange ; costal margin to beyond middle blue black with a fine 

 white line on costa, one below, and one on subcostal ; apex 

 and outer margin broadly blue black, narrowing on inner 

 margin and not reaching base; an oblique blue black stripe 

 from costa beyond middle to outer margin, following vein 4, 

 the orange space beyond well rounded above, almost straight 

 below, leaving the costa very narrowly black. Hind wings 

 blue black; costa and cell with an orange yellow spot from 

 base to just beyond middle of wing. Underneath similar. 



Expanse 43 mm. 



Habitat. — Joinville, South East Brazil. 



