46 ARCTIADiE. 



and ventral surface of abdomen orange ; abdomen bluish above 

 towards extremity; wings white, the veins brownish; fore wing 

 with the base, costa, and termeu towards tornus black-brown. 



Hah. Venezuela, Aroa. Exp. 52 millim. Type f in Coll. 

 Schaus. 



b^. (Apiconoma). Hind wing with the tornus not lobed ; antenna; with the 

 branches longer. 



a^. Thorax blackish apicalls. 



h". Thorax fulvous luiosa {2)- 



1258. Automolis apicalis. 



Euchromia apicalis, Wlk. i. 2^1 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 170. 



J . Black-brown ; frons and pectus with slight patches of 

 metallic blue ; abdomen with metallic blue patch on terminal seg- 

 ment, dorsal bands on the three next segments, and short subdorsal 



Fig. 41. 



bands on the next two ; a sublateral series of spots. Fore wing 

 with oblique wedge-shaped band from below costa beyond middle ro 

 just below vein 2 near termen and varying somewhat in width. 

 Hah. Amazons, Para (Bates), 3 cS , type. Exj). 40 millim. 



*1259. Automolis lutosa. 



Empusa lutosa, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. ii. (1827) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 210. 

 Idalus linaza, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xlii. p. 345 (1898). 



2 . Pale grey-brown with a slight purplish tinge; head and thorax 

 except tips of patagia fulvous ; coxae fulvous ; abdomen fulvous, 

 the dorsal surface mostly grey-brown except last two segments. 

 Pore wing with whitish maculate band just beyond the cell from 

 vein 7 to 3, then incurved and obsolescent. Hind wing with the 

 cell and costal area to beyond middle yellow-brown ; faint traces of 

 a curved whitish postmedial band. 



Hah. Paraguay, type t $ linaza in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 

 60 millim. 



Hiibner's figure shows a broad diffused white band extending 

 into the cell on both wings; his specimens were probably from 

 Surinam, and may belong to a distinct subspecies from linaza. 



