AUTOMOLIS. CASTRICA. C'J 



b. (Cresera). Hind wing of female with veins 6, 7 stalked. 



*1307. Automolis annulata. 



Cresera ammlata, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 232. 



2 . Head brown, the vertex ochreous ; palpi banded with 

 ochreous ; thorax ochreous, the outer part of tegulae and patagia 

 brown ; legs banded with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally 

 crimson except towards extremity. Fore wing brown ; a slight 

 pink mark on inner margin near base followed by an ochreous 

 streak ; a series of small triangular ochreous spots on costa from 

 base to beyond middle, with a series of points between them on 

 subcostal nervure, two of the spots connected with a Y-shaped 



Fig. 50. — Automolis annulata, 2 • t« 



antemedial mark extending to below cell and the 5th with a round 

 spot in cell ; obliquely-placed points in middle of cell and on 

 median nervure ; slight orange marks on middle of median nervure 

 and at lower angle of cell ; two points beyond upper angle ; a large 

 postmedial patch extending from costa to vein 3, irrorated with 

 brownish, with six brown annuli on it, and an oblique line across 

 apical area, a curved series of dark-edged ochreous spots partly 

 conjoined to the outer edge of the patch from apex to below vein 2; 

 some lilacine white suffusion on termen and below the patch. Hind 

 wing pale crimson with slight discoidal spot ; the inner margin 

 yellow. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, type t $ in Coll. Schaus. E.vp. 50 

 millim. 



Genus CASTRICA. 



Type. 



Castrica, Schaus, Journ. New York Ent. Soe. iv. p. 136 (1896),., pkalanoides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, reaching just beyond frons ; 

 antennae of male bipectinate with rather short branches, of female very short ; 

 tibiae with the spurs short ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hairs towards 

 base. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from well 

 above angle; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 7 given off before 10: 

 11 from cell. Hind wing of male with vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 3 and 5 

 stalked, 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 8 from middle of cell ; the costa 

 highly lobed at middle, with patches of androconia on upperside of hind wing 

 and underside of fore wing ; female with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 

 6, 7 stalked to near termen ; 8 from angle of cell. 



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