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$. Palps dark brown and weakly iridescent greenish blue. Head dark brown and brilliantly 

 iridescent greenish blue. Anterior margin of patagia as palps, rest deep yellow; tegulae deep 

 yellow anteriorly, rest of tegulae and remaining dorsal surface of thorax dark brown and 

 iridescent blue; legs and ventral surface of thorax dark brown and iridescent greenish blue. 

 Base of upper surface of forewing dark brown with weak blue iridescence; antemedial fascia 

 deep yellow; area between antemedial fascia and deep yellow apical fascia greyish brown with 

 weak green iridescence, except at costa and narrow band bordering yellow fascia where the 

 wing is dark brown; apical area of wing, distal to yellow apical fascia, dark brown with weak 

 blue iridescence. Upper surface of hindwing yellow proximally, greyish brown distally with 

 weak blue iridescence. Under surface of wings similar in pattern to upper surface except for 

 some yellow scales at base of forewing; colour of yellow bands as for upper surface; brown areas 

 uniformly dark brown and weakly iridescent blue. Dorsal surface of 1st abdominal segment 

 deep yellow; 2-8 dark brown; iridescent blue from 2-6, green on 7-8. Ventral surface of 

 abdomen dark brown and iridescent greenish blue; segment 2 with deep yellow medial spot; 

 3 with triangular deep yellow medial marking; 4 similar to 3 but yellow marking smaller; 

 5-8 without markings. 



Forewing length: lectotype $ 22-5 mm; £ 20-5-235 mm; 9 25-0 mm. 



<£ genitalia. Uncus strongly dilated apically, lateral carinae present, medial carina absent; 

 saccular margin of valve with conspicuous process, apex of valve without processes; apical 

 process of aedeagus digitate, sparsely spinose. 



9 genitalia. Lamella postvaginalis with broail U-shaped medial emargination; ductus 

 bursae partially sclerotized; accessory sac of corpus bursae smaller than latter; posterior 

 margin of 7th abdominal sternite with shallow emargination on each side. 



Separable from ardesiaca, which has a similar colour-pattern, by differences in 

 coloration (see ardesiaca) and by the male and female genitalia. 

 Known from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 



Material examined. 



Automolis griseonitens Rothschild, lectotype q, Peru: S.E., R. Inambari, La 

 Oroya, 3100 ft, iii.1905 (Ockenden) (BMNH). 



Colombia: i g, Cundinamarca, Monterredondo, 1420 m, 30.x. 1959 (Schneble) (ZSBS) ; 1 £, 

 Upper Rio Negro, 800 m (Fassl). Ecuador: i g, Rio Pastaza, Alpayacu, 3600 ft (Palmer). 

 Peru: i g, 1$, Carabaya, Santo Domingo, 6500 ft, ix.1902, i.1903 (Ockenden) (paralectotypes 

 of griseonitens). Bolivia: i <£, Cochabamba (Steinbach) (CM); 3 3, Rio Songo, 750 m (Fassl). 



ORDISHIA gen. n. [Gender: feminine] 



[Automolis Hiibner sensu auct. Partim.] 



[1 schnognatha Felder sensu Druce, 1884 : 76. Partim. 



[I schnognatha Felder sensu Druce, 1895 : 45- Partim.] 



[Automolis Hiibner sensu Blest, 1964. Partim. (Protective display and sound production.)] 



Type-species: Sphinx rittilus Stoll, [1782] : 183, 252, pi. 382. 



<3\ $■ Palp extending to near middle of clypeofrons; terminal segment minute. Head 

 without processes. Antennae uniserrate in g, filiform in 9. proximal segments with numerous 

 long setae ventrally in <£, 1 pair of long setae ventrally in $. Patagia at least partly yellow 

 laterally; longitudinally banded. Tegulae longitudinally striped. Thorax with pale, mid- 

 dorsal line. Tymbal organ with about 50 microtymbals. Midlegs with one pair of spurs; 

 hindleg with two pairs of spurs. Forewing brown, with yellow postmedial fascia (the latter 



