monticola 
basil utea. 
aguacana. 
capistrata. 
carminata. 
jamaicensis. 
jansonis. 
bogotana. 
bijuncta. 
50 HYDA; AUTOCHLORIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
I. monticola Schaus (10 g) has an ochreous-yellow body. Palpi with a black terminal joint; antennae 
white with a black basal half and tip. Collar and thorax black-spotted; the first abdominal ring shows above 
and laterally black spots, the other segments black intersegmental spots. The wings are hyaline with ochreous- 
yellow veins and margins; the latter at the apex and proximal angle broader ochreous-yellow, proximally 
bordered by black; at the base of the subcostal and inner-marginal vein there are short, black streaks; on the 
hindwings the veins and proximal margin are finely black. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Costa Rica (El Sitio), 
also from Panama (Lino). 
13. Genus: Hyda Wkr. 
It is very closely allied to Isanthrene from which it differs only by shorter palpi, the short and stout 
abdomen, comparatively broader and shorter wings, as well as by the antennae being only in the middle part 
thickened and serrate-dentate. 
H. basilutea Wkr. (= xanthorrhina H.-Schdff.) (11b) is a very characteristic, unmistakable species. 
The body is lemon-coloured, very strangely contrasted by the orange-coloured parts: collar, shoulder-covers 
and the abdominal segments 5 to 7. A spot on the hind head and metathorax, subdorsal spots on the first 
abdominal segment, as well as dorsal spots on the following segments are black. The hyaline wings have a 
broad, orange base; close at the base of the costa we notice a yellow and black spot. Margins of the wings and 
veins narrowly black, apex of the forewing and anal angle of the hindwing more extensively black. The species 
is distributed from Colombia to Brazil. — From West Colombia (Rio Aguaca Valley, 2000 nr) there is a local 
form before me: f. aguacana form. nov. (11 b) (type in Coll. Fassl) being distinguished by its larger size and 
quite unicolorously lemon-coloured abdomen, without the black dorsal spots of the typical form. The black 
apical spot is greatly reduced. 
14. Genus: Aiitoc*li!oris Hbn. 
A well characterized group of equably looking, more than medium-sized, very stoutly built species. 
The broad hyaline wings mostly exhibit a very strong, black neuration and extensive, black margins. On 
the forewings the uppermost subcostal vein rises from the cell, the upper median vein distinctly below the 
cell-angle. The cell of the hindwing is well developed and visible from above. The shaft of the antennae is 
thickened in the middle part. In contrast with Homoeocera, the woolly hairing of the thorax is absent. 
A. capistrata F. (= selecta H.-Schdff.) (lib) is one of the smallest species very easily recognizable 
by the entirely scarlet abdomen with triangular black dorsal spots, a black thorax with an orange collar and 
shoulder-covers; most characteristic, however, are the black patches on the wings, which are entirely strewn 
over with metallic silvery-blue scales, whereby the species greatly resembles Phoenicoprocta eximia (12 c) which, 
however, has but very little red on the abdomen. — The species was described from Brazil (?), but it lies 
before me from the Antilles, Porto Rico, for which reason it probably has the same range as eximia. 
A. carminata Hmps. from the Bahama Islands may be merely a form of the preceding with a carmine 
collar and shoulder-covers, of the same colour are the palpi in front; thorax and legs striped in carmine. The 
abdomen is of a deeper carmine, and the white sublateral spots being rather large in capistrata are here much 
smaller; the venter is black-banded, the neck white. Expanse of wings only 32 mm. 
A. jamaicensis Schaus. Head and thorax black, on the collar and shoulder-covers carmine-striped 
intermixed with small white hairs, partly with a metallic blue lustre. Abdomen carmine with a black median 
stripe and black hind-margins of the segments; beneath light brown; legs black, blue-striped; tarsi white-curled. 
Wings hyaline with black margins; the forewings with a broad black apex, a large black spot at the cell-end 
and a smaller one in the middle of the cell, not reaching the median. The hindwings are bordered by black, 
too. Antennae black with yellow tips. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. Jamaica. 
A. jansonis Btlr. (11 b) is the most variegated species: the abdomen is above on the first ring yellowish- 
white, the other rings exhibit broad, metallic blue, subdorsolateral spots, between them orange-red segmental 
bands, the last rings are above quite orange. The wings are yellowish hyaline with fine black veins and very 
broad margins. Costa Rica and Panama.—In bogotana form. nov. (= subsp. 1. Hmps.) the orange dorsal bands 
disappear more or less and remain to a slight degree only subdorsally. The ventral valve and the following 
segment are white, the following rings beneath yellow. Colombia (Bogota). 
A. bijuncta Wkr. (= consociata Wkr.) (11 b) has a black body; vertex and collar are blue- spotted; 
shoulders and sides of the metathorax exhibit white spots. The first 2 or 3 abdominal rings show subdorsal 
blue spots, the three last segments are orange-yellow; into the first of them the black colour of the body extends 
as a dorsal spot. The hyaline forewings, like in the following species, exhibit a black transverse beam in the 
submedian space below the middle of the cell. Amazon (Ega). 
