ATJTOMOLIS. 45 



areas only ; the veins and margins fuscous brown ; a greyish mark 

 above base of vein 1 ; an obscure greyish antemedial line oblique 

 from below costa to vein 1, then bent outwards and joined at inner 

 margin by an oblique line from lower angle of cell ; an elliptical 

 hyaline spot beyond the cell between veins 4, 5 ; cilia blackish. 

 Hind wing deeper crimson. 



Hah, SuRiXAM, 1 c5' • Exp' 56 millim. 



B. Antennffi of male ciHated ; hind wing with veins 6, 7 stalked, 8 from near 

 end of cell. 



*1256. Automolis lurida. 



Eucyrta. lurida, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 7 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 167. 



S . Pale yellow ; palpi orange-yellow at base, grey-brown at 

 extremity ; frons grey- brown shot with blue ; antennae brown ; 

 vertex of thorax grey-brown shot with blue; fore and mid tibiae and 

 tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen dorsally orange-yellow. Pore 

 wing with triangular grey-brown patch tinged with blue on base of 

 costa extending to vein 1 ; a similar but more rounded patch from 

 middle of costa to vein 1 and vein 4 near termen, and a hemi- 

 spherical patch from costa before apex to vein 5, the outer edge of 

 basal patch, the inner edge of 2nd patch, and the 2nd and 3rd 

 patches at costa being darker brown ; the termen and inner margin 

 orange-yellow. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



Eah. Pektj, Upper Amazons, Nari {Bates), type t (^ in Coll. 

 Eothschild. Exp. 34 millim. 



Sect. III. Hind wing of male with the costa not lobed and without sexual 

 patch below it, 



A. Antennae of male bipectinate, with short branches. 

 a. Hind wing of male with veins 7, 8 stalked. 



a^ {Machceraptenus). Hind wing with the toruus lobed ; antennce with 

 the branches very short and stiff. 



*1257. Automolis ventralis. 



Machceraptenus ventralis, Schaus, P, Z. S. 1894, p. 229. 



Fig. 40. — Automolis ventralis, J . }. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; tegulae and 

 patagia yellowish white, edged with black ; 1st joint of palpi, coxic, 



