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A. menephron Druce (19 a). Head yellow, with black spots on the forehead and vertex, collar and menephron. 
shoulder-covers black, bordered with yellow; thorax black with a yellow middle line and posteriorly a yellow 
transverse band. Chest and legs yellow. Abdomen black, on the 1st and the 4 last rings yellow bands; the 
strangulated segment laterally and beneath yellow. Wings hyaline with yellow and black veins and margins. 
Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Panama. 
A. flavicincfa Druce. Body black, collar bordered with yellowish-brown; the abdomen is above and flavicAneta. 
beneath curled yellow. Wings brownish hyaline with black veins and margins. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. 
Venezuela. 
A. vespina Schaus (= lydia Druce) (19 a) most strikingly copies certain Pseudosphex and Sphecosoma- vespina. 
species: the body is above black, collar and thorax striped yellow, the abdomen with yellow bands. The antennae 
are black; the underside and legs reddish-yellow, forehips light yellow. The wings are yellowish hyaline, in 
the $ dusted darker; in the latter the tips of the antennae are yellow. Parana, Rio Grande do Sul; Paraguay, 
in day-time on the blossoms of Senecio. 
A. fuscipes Rothsch. has an entirely black body with dark-brown legs; the strangulated abdominal fuscipcs. 
segment is yellow-brownish. Wings yellow hyaline, the forewings a little darker with brown veins, the hindwings 
with black veins, distal and proximal margin. Minas Geraes. 
A. spectrum Schaus. Body above black; at the base of the abdomen there is a yellow-reddish transverse spectrum. 
streak. The abdomen exhibits on the 3 first rings a white lateral stripe, the venter a white middle stripe. Thorax 
below striped white. Legs light brown. Wings hyaline. Veins and margins reddish-brown, the distal margin 
in the apical half darker. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Costa Rica. 
A. ortona Druce (19 b) has a black body with a blue-lustre on the abdomen; palpi and femora striped ortona. 
white, shoulders and hips spotted white; the neck is carmine, the venter white. The wings are hyaline with 
black margins, a broad, blackish-brown proximal margin, discal and apical spots. Ecuador. 
A. rubricauda Dogn. <$ (= quindiensis Dogn. $) (19 a, b) is on the body chestnut-brown, on the sides rubricauda. 
of the abdomen orange. Wings hyaline with a broad, brown border, the costal base yellowish, distal margin 
on both the upper radial veins proximally expanded; veins and a large discal spot brown. Hindwings at the 
proximal margins with blackish hair. In the the orange lateral stripes only begin from the 3rd ring and are 
above united on the last segments. Colombia (Quindiu Pass, 3800 m, Monte Socorro); the discal spot is in 
the £ considerably narrower. Legs and chest in the <$ whitish, in the $ more olive-brown like the venter which 
is white in the $. According to the couple before me from the Coll. Seitz, I unhesitatingly combine quindiensis 
as the $ with rubricauda as the A- 
A. notha Scliaus. Anterior body and 1st abdominal ring black. Forehead white. Abdomen above notha. 
dark brownish green, laterally rosy. The strangulated segment bare; underneath the 2 first rings white, the 
others rosy banded. Chest and legs black, femora white, anterior femora striped red. Forewings hyaline with 
fine black veins and margins; at the base and at the proximal angle one small red spot each. Hindwing with 
a broadly black apex and proximal margin. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Costa Rica. 
A. auranticincta Klages. The head and the whole underside is orange, as well as the bases of the antennae; auranti- 
antennae, collar and thorax above black; borders of the collar and of the shoulder-covers, as well as a spot 
on the metathorax orange. The strangulated abdominal segments are above unsealed, brownish-yellow, the 
other rings posteriorly with orange bands, the anal tuft carmine. Wings yellow hyaline with black veins strewn 
with yellow, and narrow black margins; costa and a basal spot on the forewing, often exhibiting a red dot, 
as well as the proximal margin of the hindwing orange. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Venezuela. 
A. boliviana Druce (19 b) differs from the preceding by its black head and white chest and hips; the boliviana. 
strangulated rings are scaled and orange. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Bolivia. 
A. braco H.-Schdff. (19 b). The body is black, on the head, collar, metathorax and 2nd abdominal braco. 
segment white spots. The shoulder-covers are striped carmine, the lateral stripes on the posterior abdominal 
rings, and the anal tuft being red, too. From Venezuela, Sao Paulo, Paraguay, very common almost the whole 
year round, and in heaps together with other small species particularly on the blossoms of Senecio brasiliensis. 
A. ophion Wkr. (19 b) is much larger than braco from which it differs besides by the shoulder-covers ophion. 
being quite black. The black body has a slight blue reflection, and the head is all black. The strangulated 
abdominal ring is only laterally yellowish-white, above black. Honduras, Venezuela, Brazil (Sa. Catharina). 
A. tricolor Pack. Body blackish-brown; between the eyes and antennae yellow lines, and a triangular tricolor. 
yellow spot on the hindhead; palpi yellow, outside striped black; collar and shoulder-covers spotted yellow. 
The 3rd to 5th abdominal rings scarlet; the first 5 rings exhibit above a yellow macular stripe. Chest, legs and 
the basal two thirds of the venter are ochreous-yellow. Wings hyaline with fine black veins and margins, and 
apical spot. Inner-marginal appendage of the hindwing brown with a light end. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. 
Amazon. 
