20 A. WATSON 



Automolis angulosa Walker, 1856 : 1634. LECTOTYPE <$ (not £ as stated by Walker), 



Brazil (UM), here designated [examined]. 

 Euplesia flavicincta (Herrich-Schaffer) ; Kirby, 1892 : 167. 

 Automolis angulosa Walker; Strand, 1919 : 14. 

 Automolis immaculata Rothschild, 1933 : 171. LECTOTYPE g, Brazil (BMNH), here 



designated [examined]. Syn. n. 

 Automolis spitzi Rothschild, 1935 : 2 4 x - Holotype $, Brazil (BMNH) [examined]. Syn. n. 



(J. Palps dark brown and weakly iridescent blue and green. Front of head and anterior 

 part of vertex dark brown and iridescent blue and green ; posterior part of vertex dark brown . 

 Antenna lustrous dark brown. Patagia deep yellow or yellow, except for dark brown band 

 along anterior margin; tegulae deep yellow or yellow anterior to wing-base, otherwise dark 

 brown; remainder of thorax dark brown and iridescent blue and green, with deep yellow or 

 yellow posterior margin. Legs dark brown, with blue and green iridescence. Upper surface 

 of forewing dark brown, the veins marked by pale brown (except in one paralectotype of 

 immaculata), two transverse bands deep yellow or yellow. Hindwing dark brown distally 

 (paler than forewing) with weak blue and green iridescence at anal angle; yellow proximally 

 with deep yellow along anal margin. Under surface of forewing as for upper surface, but paler, 

 and with some yellow scales towards posterior margin of brown proximal area. Under surface 

 of hindwing as upper surface, but deep yellow along costa, and with dark brown marking 

 along proximal fifth of costa. Dorsal surface of segment 1 of abdomen deep yellow or yellow, 

 remaining segments dark brown dorsally with blue and green iridescence. Ventral surface of 

 abdomen dark brown with blue and green iridescence, and with deep yellow or yellow medial 

 markings on segments 2-6 (and usually 7), the yellow markings tapered posteriorly on each 

 segment or constricted at middle. 



9- Similar to male, but outer margin of forewing more strongly convex and with dark brown 

 distal band of hindwing broader than proximal yellow band. 



Forewing length: lectotype $ 25-0 mm approx. (wings damaged); 18-5-23-0 mm; 

 9 23-0-26-0 mm. 



^ genitalia. Uncus slightly dilated posteriorly, with weak medial carina; apex of valve 

 evenly rounded or angled posterolaterally ; apex of aedeagus with finely spinose tubercle; 

 vesica with two large scobinate lobes, the larger lobe with two accessory lobes on one side. 



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

 sclerotized at ostium only; accessory sac of corpus bursae smaller than latter; posterior margin 

 of 7th sternite evenly concave medially. 



The type of immaculata (mis-labelled 'amacula' by Rothschild on the pin-label), 

 which was compared with dolens by its author, differs little from the type of angulosa. 

 The type of spitzi differs from other males of flavicincta examined in the presence 

 of yellow scales in the middle of each tegula, but is otherwise similar to the type of 

 angulosa [two other specimens of dolens in the BMNH have similarly coloured 

 tegulae] . 



Seitz wrongly treated griseonitens and ardesiaca as subspecies of angulosa. 



The moth figured by Herrich-Schaffer as flavicincta was almost certainly a male, 

 whereas the only Herrich-Schaffer specimen in the Berlin collection is a female. 

 The pin-labels of this specimen leave little doubt, however, that it is one of the 

 original series. 



I can find no difference in the genitalia between specimens of flavicincta and 

 dolens. Externally most specimens of dolens have entirely yellow tegulae, outer 

 marginal extensions of the distal yellow band on the forewing (except lectotype 

 and male paralectotype of immarginata) , the distal margin of the pre-apical yellow 

 band of the forewing much more strongly concave and have less well marked veins 



