AuTOMERis 10 race texana, nov. 



Female; as usual, more distinctive than the male. Head and thorax very 

 deep purple with a few orange hairs. Ground color of the primaries deep gray- 

 purple, a few yellowish, orange, and red hairs mesad of the t. a. line which is 

 scarcely distinguishable except on costa — radius where it is marked by a 

 few yellowish-white hairs. Medial, s. t. and terminal spaces concolorously deep 

 gray-purple. Reniform showing mainly as deeper and more intense in color- 

 ation with a few bordering yellowish hairs. T. p. line similar in coloration. 

 S. t. line pale, but decidedly inconspicuous altho somewhat marked internally by 

 patches of deeper color between the veins. Veins crossing the s. t. and ter- 

 minal areas, with a red cast. Secondaries similar to lilith but deeply suffused 

 with gray-purple scales throughout the terminal areas, the subterminal band 

 darker due to a gray-purple suffusion ; and the orange surrounding the ocellus 

 even deeper and more intense orange than in any specimen of lilith seen by the 

 authors. 



Male : — Almost intermediate in ground color between the yellow and 

 the brownish-rufous forms of lilith, with similar maculation ; lacking the gray 

 shadings of the female. 



We place this form last on the list of species, following A. io race lilith. 



Type locality and number and sexes of types: 9 Holotype, Brownsville, 

 Texas, the date label reading 6-11 (which we take to mean June 11th), Geo. Dor- 

 ner. Collector; $ Allotype, Black Jack Springs, Texas, Wm. Barnes, Collector; 

 9 Paratype, San Benito, Texas, III-17. 



Species and Forms Omitted as Exotic 



AuTOMERis ZELLERi, G. and R. 



As per check list of B. & McD. Feb. 1917. 



AuTOMERis BOucARDi, Druce. 



We call attention to the original description and figures of this 

 insect in the Biologia Centrali-Americana. Neither the text, the 

 figures nor the type locality seem at all to fit Automeris pamina aurosea 

 to vi^hich this species was sunk in the Check List, B. and McD., Feb. 

 1917. Should the insect eventually prove conspecific with Automeris 

 pamina we venture the guess that it will certainly prove a decidedly 

 valid race. While the course of the lines and the white markings on 

 the primaries next to the thorax suggests pamina we have never seen 

 pamina with the distinct shadings outside of the t.p. line shown in 

 Druce's figures of boucardi. 



