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surface; tibia yellowish white, with greyish brown, longitudinal line on outer surface and red 

 area distally on front surface; tarsus speckled, dark brown and yellowish white, mostly the 

 latter inner surface; metathoracic leg as mesothoracic leg. Upper surface of forewing 

 yellowish white, translucent; sparsely scaled except in costal area, at base of wing and between 

 vein xA and inner margin. Upper surface of hindwing yellowish white, sparsely scaled in 

 middle. Under surface of wings as upper surface. Wings without readily identifiable scent- 

 organs. Abdomen yellowish white. 



9- As £ except for sexual differences mentioned under genus, and wings more densely 

 scaled. 



Forewing length: holotype $ 47-0 mm; <$ 3i*5-33"0 mm; $ 43-0-44 -o mm. 



$ genitalia. Saccus elongate. Juxta globose, continuous with base of valves. Sacculus 

 of valve well sclerotized, costal region membranous. Tegumen broad posteriorly. Uncus 

 broad at base; posterior, medial process truncate, strongly carinate dorsally. Aedeagus 

 elongate, with patch of cornutal spines. 



5 genitalia. Corpus bursae with pair of minutely scobinate signa; ductus bursae long, 

 sigmoid, sclerotized. Lamella antevaginalis emarginate medially. Lamella postvaginalis 

 conical; membranous medially. Anterior apophyses very short; posterior apophyses better 

 developed. Scent tubules simple, extending to just beyond ostium. 



Known only from Guyana and Brazil. 



Material examined. 



Automolis leucoptera Hampson, holotype <$, Guyana: 'bought at Georgetown' 

 (BMNH). 



Brazil: 5 <$, 4 $, Para (Moss) (BMNH). 



Previously described genera 



AGARAEA Herrich-Schaffer 



Agaraea Herrich-Schaffer, [1855] : pi. 76 (wrapper). Type-species: Agavaea longicornis Herrich- 

 Schaffer, [1855]: ibidem, by monotypy. 

 Agoraea; Herrich-Schaffer, [1856] : 20. Incorrect subsequent spelling. 

 Agaraea Herrich-Schaffer; Watson, 1971 : 2. [Types of six species illustrated.] 



Agaraea strigata (Reich) comb. n. 



Automolis strigata Reich, 1936 : 422. Type(s) <$ [no locality given] (Reich Collection, Israel) 

 [not examined]. [Compared by its author with internervosa Dognin (see Watson, 1971).] 



ARAEOMOLIS Hampson 



Araeomolis Hampson, 1901 : 38. Type-species: Araeomolis rhodographa Hampson, 1901 : 38, 

 by original designation. 



Araeomolis irregularis (Rothschild) comb. n. 



Idalus irregularis Rothschild, 1910a : 23, pi. 4, fig. 9. LECTOTYPE £, Brazil: Amazonas, 

 Fonte Boa, x.1906 (Klages) (BMNH), here designated [examined]. 

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