40 AECTIAD^. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the costa highly lobed ; a sexual patch below 

 costa on upperside. 



A. Hind wing with vein 3 from or from near angle of cell ; 

 5 from above angle, c? with veins 6, 7 coincident, and 

 8 from middle of cell. $ with veins 7, 8 stalked. 

 a. Antennae of male bipectinate. 



a^. Fore wing yellow with blue-grey bands critkeis. 



b^. Fore wing white with brown fasciee on costa and from 



base to tornus larissa. 



1247. Automolis critheis. 



Idalus critheis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 89, pi. 9. f. 19 (1881) ; 

 Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 198. 



(S . Palpi and antennae brownish, the former crimson at base ; 

 liead and thorax white, the vertex of head and a band across end of 

 patagia and mesothorax orange ; legs white, slightly striped with 

 brown ; abdomen crimson above with traces of dorsal white points, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing yellow, the base white, with 

 basal and oblique subbasal series of blue-grey spots, the base of 

 inner margin crimson ; the white extending on inner area to the 

 medial blue-grey band which is slightly incurved, produced along 

 costa towards apex, defined on inner side by white land with the 

 veins on it white. Hind wing white, the inner area tinged with 

 crimson. 



2 . Hind wing yellowish, with hardly any crimson on inner 

 area. 



Hah. Panama, type t $ in Coll. Staudinger, La Chorrera {Dolhy- 

 Tylor) 1 S ; Beazil, 1 c^" , Sao Paulo, Mahaos. Exp. 36 millim. 



*1248. Automolis larissa. 



Idcdus larissa, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 496, pi. 42. f. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 198. 



cT . Head and thorax white ; palpi, a band on frons, and antennae 

 brown ; a yellow band between antennae ; thorax tinged with 

 crimson and with two crimson points ; fore tibia? and tarsi brown ; 



abdomen dorsally deep crim- 

 son, with white spots on first 

 two segments, the ventral 

 surface white. Pore wing 

 pearly semihyaline white ; a 

 brown fascia on costal area 

 tapering to apex ; a broad 

 oblique brown fascia from 

 base of costa to tornus leaving 

 Fig. o'3.— Automolis larissa, c^ . \. the basal part of inner area 



white with an oblique crim- 

 son striga on it. Hind wing with the costal half white, the inner 



