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fore tibiae and the tarsi orange ; fore coxie with bhie patches 

 behind ; abdomen with dorsal blue spots on last three segments, a 

 lateral series of spots and sublateral yellow spots on 2nd and 3rd 

 segments. Fore wing with oblique orange fascia from vein 1 near 

 base to lower angle of cell, then curved to near termen above 

 vein 4 ; an oblique fascia across apical area from below costa to 

 termen ; the costa, subcostal nervure, and cilia paler brown. 

 Hind wing with tbe costal area down to median nervure and vein 5 

 orange, with a semihy aline streak below the cell. 



Hah. Amazons, Para, 1 c^ type, Ega (Bates) 1 J . E.vp. 40 

 millim. 



*1285. Automolis sypilus. 



Sphinx sypilus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 99. A (1777); Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 167. 



$ . Black -brown ; vertex of head with metallic blue spot > 

 tegulas orange edged with brown ; patagia orange ; abdomen with 

 orange bands on first three segments, the terminal segment with 

 dorsal and lateral series of metallic blue spots. Fore wing with 

 oblique slightly curved orange fascia from below the cell near base 

 to above vein 5 just beyond the cell : an elongate subapical spot 

 above vein 6 not reaching termen. Hind wing with orange fascia 

 on costal area extending to inner raargin at base and narrowing 

 to apex. 



Hah. SdRiNAM. Exp. 46 miUim. This species is unknown to 

 me ; it may possibly be the female of A. packardi^ or, as it seems 

 to have been figured by Cramer from a drawing, be a reproduction 

 from a bad figure of a rubbed specimen. 



1286. Automolis taeniata. 



Chelonia tceniata, Guer. Icon. R. Aniui., Ins. p. 514 (1844) ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 354 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 167. 

 Ormetica sphingiformis, Clem. Proc. Acad. Phil. 1860, p. 545 ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 168. 

 Automolis imitata. Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 75, pi. 8. f. 27 



(1884). 



Black ; head orange-yellow ; palpi and antennae black, the former 

 yellowish in front, a blue bar across frons, a black and blue stripe 



on vertex of head ; tegulae, 

 patagia, and sides of 

 thorax with broad yellow 

 stripes ; fore coxae with 

 yellow spots ; femora 

 with blue and yellowish 

 stripes, hind tibiae and 

 tarsi with slight yellowish 

 streaks ; abdomen with 

 Fig. \^.-~ Automolis tceniata, cJ. \. broad lateral and ventral 



orange-yellow stripes, not 

 quite reaching extremity, slight dorsal blue bands on terminal 



