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vi. (USNM, 1 $); 2 £, Puntarenas Province, Osa Peninsula, i-8mi. W. of Rincon, 4. hi. 1971 

 (Donahue &■ Hogue) (LACM). Belize: i J, Punta Gorda, iv.1933 (White). Panama: i Cj, 

 Lino, 800 m (Fassl) (USNM). 



Viviennea gyrata (Schaus) comb. n. 



Automolis gyrata Schaus, 1920 : 117. Holotype $, Guatemala (USNM) [examined]. 

 Automolis gyrata Schaus; Watson, 1971 : 41. 



£. As for tegyra, but abdomen like that of moma; segments 1-3 black dorsally, 2 and 3 

 with lateral orange patches ; 4-6 orange, 7 and 8 black, 7 with iridescent blue and green posterior 

 margin, 8 with iridescent blue and green lateral patches; ventral surface of 2 orange medially, 

 black laterally, 3-7 orange with small black lateral spot on each side, 8 black with iridescent 

 blue and green patch on each side. 



§. Not known. 



Forewing length: holotype $ 22-0 mm. 



^ genitalia as for momyra and tegyra. 



Known only from the holotype. Further material is needed to show whether 

 the colour-pattern of the dorsal surface of the type abdomen is typical of Guatemalan 

 specimens - if it is not, gyrata can be placed in the synonymy of tegyra. 



Material examined. 



Automolis gyrata Schaus, holotype £, Guatemala: Cayuga (USNM). 



Viviennea euricosilvai (Travassos & Travassos) comb. n. 



(PI. 4, figs 21-23) 



Rhipha euricosilvai Travassos & Travassos, 1954 : 213, 13 figs. Holotype q*, Brazil (Department 

 of Zoology, Agriculture Secretariat, Sao Paulo State) [not examined]. 



Distinguished from the previous four nominal species by the colour-pattern of 

 the wings and abdomen, and in the male genitalia particularly by the shape of the 

 valves and apical process of the aedeagus. Judging by the figure of the female 

 genitalia accompanying the original description of this species, the shape of the 

 posterior margin of both the lamella postvaginalis and 7th abdominal sternite 

 is probably similarly diagnostic. The species is well illustrated by its authors, and 

 is described in detail. 



Recorded from the mountains of the Sierra da Mantiqueira which extend across 

 the border of the Brazilian states Sao Paulo and Rio. 



Material examined. 



Brazil: 2 <J, Itatiaia (Maromba), 28.vii.1952 (Pearson & Oiticica) (paratypes 582 and 583) 

 (BMNH). 



Viviennea superba (Druce) comb. n. 

 (PI. 3, figs 17-20) 



Automolis superba Druce, 1883 : 382, pi. 40, fig. 8. LECTOTYPE <j>, Ecuador (BMNH), 

 here designated [examined]. 





