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dorsally orange-red; abdomen otherwise dorsally purplish red, underneath yellowish 

 white. 



Expanse 42 millim. 



Hab. Eio Janeiro. 



Adelocephala Columbia, sp. nov. (Tab. III. fig. 13.) 



Primaries above brown, with a broad pinkish space at the base ; a heavy pinkish 

 shade from the apex to the middle of the inner margin ; a small indistinct pinkish spot 

 at the end of the cell. Secondaries reddish brown, with an indistinct dark transverse 

 line from just within the apex on the costal margin to the middle of the inner margin. 

 Underneath the wings are light reddish brown, with a broad pinkish shade on the outer 

 margin of the primaries below the apex, and the outer margin of the secondaries is 

 broadly pink. Thorax brown. Abdomen pinkish brown, somewhat tinged with red 

 at the base. 



Expanse 90 millim. $ . 



Hab. Columbia. 



Citheronia vogleri. (Tab. III. fig. 2, s .) 



Ceratocampa vogleri, Weyenb. Period. Zool. Arg. iii. p. 369 (1881). 

 Eacles leona, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1890, p. 500. 



It affords me great pleasure to figure this fine and little-known species. I have 

 compared my specimen Avith the type of Eacles leona, Druce, and find the species to be 

 identical. 



Fam. SATURNIID^]. 

 Automeris macareis. (Tab. III. fig. 3.) 



Automeris macareis, Sckaus, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1892, p. 290. 



Male. Primaries brown, tinged with pinkish ; darker beyond the outer transverse 

 line, which extends from the middle of the inner margin to the apex ; on this darker 

 portion a marginal, wavy, lighter shade ; a narrow basal transverse line ; the discal 

 spot finely outlined with dark brown. Secondaries pinkish brown ; a little yellow 

 between the ocellus and a transverse black line ; the outer margin paler. The ocellus 

 small, black, with a brownish centre containing a few white scales. Thorax .brown. 

 Abdomen reddish. 



Expanse 70 millim. 



The female is more of a pinkish grey ; the space between the ocellus and transverse 

 black line pink. Abdomen reddish brown, with broad black transverse bands. 

 Expanse 85 millim. 



Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. 



