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AUTOMOLTS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
salma. 
superba. 
pauperis. 
fassli. 
virescens. 
leucnptera. 
albescens. 
noiva. 
surinamen- 
sis. 
scha a si. 
el issa. 
pseudelis¬ 
sa. 
clissoides. 
centralis. 
Iripunctata. 
brack ystria- 
fn. 
alcteria. 
aletis. 
A. salma Drc. (= superba limps, p. p.) (50g). Sulphureous, forewing with a minute black spot 
before the anal angle; abdomen orange, at the end a dark, lustrous blue dorsal spot. The Q has also at the anal 
angle of the hindwing a small dark spot. Central America. — In the quite similar superba Drc. (50 g) from 
Colombia and Ecuador the small spot of the forewing is more intense and the hindwing paler orange-yellow; 
besides another black apical dot in the forewing and black dusting at the middle of the border of the hindwing. 
A. pauperis Schs. (50 h). Yellow, the forewings orange, without any small black spots, the hindwing 
in the disc pale diaphanous. Apex of abdomen blackish. The hindwing are much larger than in salma, the 
shape more squat. Costa Rica. 
A. fassli Dgn. (50 g). Quite orange, the apex of abdomen neither black; the hindwing only in the 
costal half lighter. £ hindwing with a pointed anal lobe. From San Antonio in Colombia. 
A. virescens Rothsch. (50 h), like fassli , deviates considerably in the shape from the other Automolis, 
and according to Hampsox’s investigations it belongs into the genus Hypomolis, near H. oclcendeni and H. 
rothschildi. Unicolorously pale green, only the costa of the forewing and fringes orange; abdomen and inner- 
marginal area of the hindwing sulphureous. Peru. 
A. leucoptera Hmps. (= albescens Rothsch. p. p.) (51c). The largest Automolis known; body with 
appressed white scales and wings thinly scaled white, the latter therefore somewhat transparent and with a 
faint bluish-green reflection. Guiana. 
A. albescens Rothsch. (50 h). Unicolorously milky white, body and wings. Not quite half the size of 
leuco pier a . Suri n am. 
A. noiva Jones (50 h). Likewise white, but the thorax finely marked rosy-red, forewing with a yellowish 
costal stripe, darker veins and internerval streaks in and below the cell. Santos (South Brazil). 
A. surinaniensis Rothsch. (50 h). White, body and forewings bone-white, hindwings milky-white; 
forelegs inside purple. Much larger than noiva. Surinam. 
A. schausi Rothsch. (50 h). All the wings pale yellow, thorax light yellow with 2 dots on the tegulae 
and a black spot between the patagia. Abdomen black with a broad, orange-yellow belt, on which there is a 
black spot. Costa Rica. 
A. elissa Schs. (50 i) is very much like schausi , somewhat smaller, of a lighter colouring, thorax 
without spots, the black of the apex of the abdomen only above, whereas beneath the whole venter is orange. 
Venezuela, Brazil and Bolivia (Rio Songo). 
A. pseudelissa Dgn. (50 i) from Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia is exceedingly similar to the preceding, 
but across the mesothorax, between the patagia, a black streak, and the abdomen at the end not black, but 
yellow with small black transverse spots and with punctiform lateral spots. 
A. elissoides Rothsch. is almost exactly like the preceding, only paler, more bone-white than pale 
yellow, but beneath easily recognized by the chest being orange-yellow, whereas pseudelissa has a blackish 
chest and only orange-yellow anterior hips. Venezuela, Trinidad, and Bolivia. 
A. ventralis Schs. (50 i). Size, shape and colour of wings like in the preceding, but the forewing at 
the base black, and bordered with black at the costa and anal angle. Besides the body is above black except 
the creamy-white tegulae and patagia, beneath, however, orange. Colombia (Villavicencio) and Venezuela. 
A. tripunctata Drc. (50 h) is much smaller than the preceding; pale yellow, head, and collar yolk- 
coloured, forewing with black, lustrous blue spots at the base, anal angle and between the radials. A dark 
costal streak proceeds from the base and cuts off the apical part. Panama. 
A. brachystriata Dgn. (50 i). White, somewhat opalescent, abdomen banded red; round the cell-end 
of the forewing small dark punctiform spots, one near the base and one between the cell-end ajrd border; short, 
golden brown transverse streaks on the median veins, the sub median, and between in the submedian space. 
Hindwings entirely white. Colombia. 
A. aleteria Schs. (50 i) resembles the preceding; abdomen above except apex and base quite red, spotted 
whitish; forewing without dark dots before and behind the transverse vein, the yellowish-brown streak-spots 
in the disc longer, the with a round sexual spot at the costa of the hindwing. French Guiana. 
A. aletis Schs. (50 i). Thoracic dorsum with 4 dark dots, with prominent brown streaks round 
the cell-end and a small punctiform streak far behind them; $ with a double row of streaks in the submedian 
space and below it. Costa Rica and Panama. 
