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middle of the proximal margin and at the base of the forewing there appears bright yellow bordered with red. 
Hindwings above pink, in the beneath with a large scent-spot. Mexico and Amazon District. 
A. parva Rothsch. (45 f) is recognizable by its small size, the pale spotting and the almost transparent pm-va. 
hindwings. Surinam and Amazon (Manaos). 
A. chaon Drc. (53 e). Easily recognizable by brilliant silvery dots at the base of the forewing, above ehaon. 
the proximal margin and below the middle of the costa. Otherwise very much like Zatrephes Pseudopremolis 
(53 b). From Costa Rica, Ecuador, Amazon and Guiana. 
A. divisa H.-Schdff. This butterfly figured by Herrich-Schaffer without the patria being stated, divisa. 
has not been found anymore. It undoubtedly belongs here. Hampson presumes it to be the of a species the 
9 of which was described as Automolis marcapota from Peru by Drtjce in 1907. (Comp. p. 370). 
A. erythrophleps Hmps. (45 f). This small butterfly also greatly deviates from the otherwise very erythrc- 
similar Amaxia and forms already a transition to the closely allied Phaeomolis. Forewings yellow, the violettish- 
brown colouring arranged to 3 transverse macular bands dying away towards the proximal margin. At and 
before the border 3 rows of small black dots. Guiana and Amazon District. 
32. Genus: Apliyle Wkr. 
A genus partly consisting of butterflies with broad and ruddle-red forewings, partly of such with narrow 
not red forewings. Easily discernible from the Amaxia by the upper median vein of the forewing rising in 
Aphyle with the last radial from the upper cell-angle, while in Amaxia it branches off far before it. The 99 
which are, strange to say, in this genus more frequently taken than the <$$, have very stout abdomens. The 
centre of the range of the genus is near Teffe on the Amazon, from where few species are distributed as far as 
Guiana, one to Costa Rica. 
A. steinbachi Rothsch. (45 f). The smallest and southernmost species. Sooty greyish-brown, the stebibaclii. 
forewings striped lighter; head and collar yellow. Bolivia. 
A. margaritacea Wkr. (45 f). White, the costal margin of the forewing in the $ yellowish, hindwings margariia- 
with a rosy tint. On the forewing a small black band defines the apical part, another the basal part, and another 
being interrupted in the middle extends from the middle of the costal margin to the anal angle. The figured 
specimen originates from Teffe (Ega). — aftinis Rothsch. (45 f) has a yellow ground of the forewing; from the aif finis. 
Upper Amazon and Pern. 
A. cuneata Hmps. Forewings white, the dark streaks more irregular; base, costa and border of the cunecda. 
forewing marked darker and tinted buff. Hindwing diaphanous white, at the anal margin tinted dark red; 
abdomen quite vermilion. Only very little larger than the preceding. Guiana. 
A. albipicta Dgn. (45 g). Forewing at the costal margin broad brown, which colour emanates into albipieta. 
the wing and forms yet a large, irregular, cloudy spot at the proximal angle; hindwings and abdomen dark 
purple pink. Guiana. 
A. incarnata Hmps. (45 g). Body and wings above bright ruddle-red with a yellowish-hyaline distal- incarnaia. 
marginal spot projecting towards the cell-end in an obtuse tooth towards the base. Through the forewing 
extend 2 delicate, dark transverse lines. From the Amazon; the figured specimen from Teffe. -— In the very 
similar incisa Rothsch. (45 g) from Fonte Boa the yellow marginal band in the apical part of the forewing is incisci. 
very narrow. — intorta Schs. (45 g) from Costa Rica is much larger, and the dark transverse lines of the forewing intorta. 
are extinct. 
A. conifera Dgn. (45 g) is still larger than the preceding; quite ruddle-red, except a lacinifonn, faintly eonijem. 
yellowish hyaline spot on the lower marginal half, above the proximal angle. Beneath the hindwings are almost 
white. Before me only from Medina (East Colombia, at an altitude of 500 m), from the Coll. Fassl. 
33. Genus: STeonerita Hmps. 
This genus is composed of 7 or 8 medium-small Arctiids, in the colouring and also in the structure almost 
exactly like the preceding, except the lower radial of the forewing having a footstalk of about 2 or 3 mm length 
in common with the upper median vein. This footstalk is effected by the discocellular extending not transversely, 
but quite obliquely from in front and outside towards behind and inside. The genus based upon this chance 
occurrence might be the more artificial as the antennae of the <$<$ are in some species plain, in others rather 
long doubly combed; the abdomen is sometimes long and slender, sometimes it projects a little beyond the 
anal angle; the hindwings are sometimes round, small and of the usual shape, sometimes changed in their shape 
and venation by complicated scent-organs covering the whole surface of the wings. The larvae not vet being 
known of a single species, are probably partly brushy partly tuft-haired bear-caterpillars. 
