AUTOMOLLS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
sypilus. 
sypalcttius. 
metallica. 
packurdi. 
saturula. 
nciru. 
sphingidea. 
alaenia. 
roscnbergi. 
tacniata- 
under wjudi. 
guapisa. 
pseudogua- 
pisa. 
fulgurata. 
3 <5 <5 
(last radial) conies from the same place, but it may also branch off yet before the cell-angle. The 2nd radial 
comes from the upper cell-angle, the subcostal veins 2 to 5 with a common footstalk, the first rising from the 
upper cell-wall, sometimes close sometimes farther before the cell-end. Hindwing sometimes entire-margined, 
sometimes retracted below the apex, in the sometimes costally (herois) or also anally (reducta) lobated; cell 
almost invariably of exactly half the length of the wing. Nearly all the butterflies are very conspicuously varie¬ 
gated and very beautifully marked species, some with metallic colours on their body. The larvae often have 
brush-shaped pads on the 5th and 11th rings or woolly transverse puffs, before or behind them long pencils 
formed of few bristles; otherwise they are short-haired. Some live on trees (Psidium pyriferum) and are not 
easy to breed. The butterflies come to the lantern at night and many appear to be very rare; most of the 
species have been discovered during the last years. 
A. sypilus Cr. (50 c). The orange longitudinal band of the forewing is broad at the base of the wing 
and terminates pointed behind the cell; before the apex a spindle-shaped, orange-yellow oblique spot. Hindwing 
in the costal part orange. Abdomen with an orange transverse streak on the 1st and 2nd rings, the posterior 
half black with metallic blue dorsal and lateral spots. — Larva dark brownish-grey with a light dorsal and 
lateral stripe and an ochreous brown head, on the 5th and 11th rings there is a yellowish-brown dorsal brush, 
similar to that of an Orgyia- larva, but above rounded off, behind each of these brushes 4 to 6 very long white 
hair-pencils. Pupa yellowish-brown, in an oviform, Syntomid-like, grey cocoon intermixed with hair. Surinam. 
A. sypalettius sp. nov. (50 c). Only half the size of sypilus-, the small apical band almost forms the 
continuation of the yellow basal ray ending taperingly soon behind the cell-end. From Villavicencio (Colombia); 
type in Coll. Fassl. 
A. metallica Joicey (50 c). Head and body above blackish-brown, vertex and abdominal dorsum 
spotted metallic blue. Forewing greyish-black with yellow-streaked veins, below the cell a yellow stripe as 
far as into the disc, and before the apex a small yellow spot; hindwing black with an orange costal spot. The 
patagia are always striped orange, but the abdomen only sometimes at the base yellow; the orange stripe in 
the forewing may be more intense or fainter. From Colombia and the Chiriqui. 
A. packardi Btlr. (= sypilus Wkr. nec Cr.) (50 c) differs by the quite black abdominal dorsum, 
almost entirely black thorax, narrower orange stripes of the forewing, the preapical one of which is prolonged 
like a band; hindwing in the costal part lighter, but not orange. Amazon; Para, Teffe. 
A. saturata Rothsch. (50 c). Body above quite feeble with a narrow, yellow patagial margin; longi¬ 
tudinal stripe of the forewing narrower and much more curved, hindwing with a yellow costal half. Perhaps 
the C °f sypilus. Guiana, Santa Catharina. 
A. neira Schs. (50 c) only differs frem saturata by the small, preapical, orange band of the forewing 
being placed more steeply. Rio de Janeiro. 
A. sphingidea Perty (— vittigera Fldr.) (50 c) is immediately recognizable by the orange band exten¬ 
ding into the apex of the forewing itself, not to the border below it. Amazon. 
A. ataenia Schs. (= collaterals Rothsch. nec Hmps.) (50 d) is much larger and stouter, the longitudinal 
band of the forewing ends in the upper third of the border. In the the stripe of the forewing is narrower and 
its end does not pierce the fringes; costal part of the hindwing yellow, in the g the apex is black. Amazon 
District from the Rio Negro to Para. — lurosenbergi Rothsch. (50d) from Venezuela and Ecuador the longitudinal 
stripe of the forewing ends 2 or 3 mm before the border and the apex of the hindwing is broader black. 
A. taeniata Guer. sphingiformis Clem., imitata Dec.) (50 d). The orange stripe of the forewing 
is broader, but not curved, but straight. Abdomen orange with a black dorsal stripe. Mexico to Costa Rica; 
one of the most common species of the genus. 
A. underwoodi Rothsch. (50 d). Longitudinal stripe of the forewing more than twice as broad as in 
the preceding; abdominal dorsum posteriorly quite black. Costa Rica. 
A. guapisa Schs. (50 d). The longitudinal stripe of the forewing is quite thin and'dull dark orange, 
besides the veins are very finely marked orange. Costa Rica. 
A. pseudoguapisa Rothsch. (50 d, e). The yellow median stripe of the forewing is in the U only quite 
thin and in Peruvian $$ only yet noticeable in the basal third of the forewing. Venezuela, Peru. — Distinguish¬ 
able from the preceding by the abdominal dorsum being above quite dark, the basal part of the abdomen in 
guapisa showing lateral yellow spots. 
A. fulgurata Btlr. (50 e). The yellow band of the forewing extends broadly as far as behind the cell- 
end, but then it ends pointed into the propinquity of the border. The veins are quite faintly marked yellow. 
South Brazil. 
