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AECTIID^. 
Avitli black ; venter with lateral marginal series of silvery green spots. Expanse of -wings 
1 inch 6 lines. 
Ega {Bates). 
Automolis zenzeroides, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 8.) 
General aspect of A. contraria. Above ochre-yellow : primaries with an elongate basi- 
costal blacldsh spot crossed by white nervures ; apex and outer margin to second median 
branch blackish brown ; two subapical white spots : secondaries with a rather narrow brown 
outer border^ tapering from anal angle to subcostal nervure ; frons whitish ; vertex of head 
and collar black-spotted ; anal half of abdomen blacky with dorsal and lateral series of 
metallic blue spots. Body below whitish testaceous ; trochanters of last pair of legs with a 
few metallic blue scales. Expanse of mugs 1 inch 3 lines. 
Near Porto Salvo, Rio Purus, taken 3rd October, 1874 (/. W. H. Trail). 
Automolis fiilgurata. (Plate XYIII. fig. 5.) 
Automolis fulgiirata, ButJcr, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 420. n. 3 (1870). 
Wings above dark brown : primaries with a central longitudinal Inroad orange streak : 
secondaries with a broad costal orange streak. Head black, spotted with metallic blue and 
orange ; collar black, with lateral orange bands ; thorax and base of abdomen dark brown ; 
tegulfe orange ; abdomen, excepting at the base, blue-black, with three incomplete series of 
silvery greenish spots ; trochanters spotted with green and orange ; venter dull black, with 
latei-al series of blue-green dots ; basal segments with orange spots on each side. Expanse 
of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 
Espiritu Santo. (The collection of which this insect formed part was purchased of a 
dealer who unfortunately could not supply more definite information as regards the habitat.] 
Automolis ameoid.es. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) 
Automolis ameoides, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 421. n. 10 (1876). 
Primaries golden yellow ; the outer border, a central oblique band from costa to ex- 
ternal angle, and the internal border, excepting at the base, greyish brown, with darker 
edging : secondaries deeper yellow, with a rather broad, external and abdominal, dark brown 
border. Body the saifle colour as the secondaries : head black, spotted with greenish blue ; 
collar and thorax with a central dark brown longitudinal streak ; metathorax with a central 
metallic greenish blue spot ; abdomen with its outer two thirds black, with three series of 
greenish-blue spots ; base brown ; yellow area wdth a central black spot, and two black- 
edged blue spots on each side. Wings below more uniform than above ; primaries with the 
band and border dark brown ; pectus brown, streaked with green ; trochanters spotted with 
green and ochreous ; venter ochreous, banded with dull black, and spotted with green at the 
sides; anus black. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2 lines. 
Ecuador [Buckley), 
