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AUTOMOLIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
chrysopera. 
pulverosa. 
neritosia. 
semirosea. 
perflua. 
juvenis. 
divisus. 
ilioides. 
Hits. 
formona. 
baritioides. 
ignivena. 
ciirina. 
rosa. 
resemblance to numerous Neritos, Paranerita etc. Forewings brown, marked red, along the border and costa 
a yellow band, the latter in the middle of the cell broadest. Abdomen and hindwing dark brown. A small species; 
Panama, Amazon, South Brazil. 
A. chrysopera Schs. (51 a) is still smaller, the costa marked red, not yellow, at the border irregular, 
orange-yellow spots. Hindwings in the basal half pink, distal half black. Guiana. 
A. pulverosa Schs. Thorax white, marked yellowish-brown, abdomen above orange, beneath white. 
Forewing pale brown with white streaks on the veins in the marginal area or small white dots. Near the base 
a white transverse streak, also the transverse vein white, round the lower cell-angle brownish shading; post- 
median line white, incomplete. Hindwing diaphanous white, in the middle of the border tinged brownish. 
Size of jassli (50 g). Surinam. 
A. neritosia Jones is very little larger than ditissimus (51 a); forewing pale red-brown with a large 
pale yellow distal spot, the border of which extends from the anal angle to the cell-end, from there below the 
costa distally and making below the apical part a small, downward convex bow. Abdomen red, hindwings 
pale yellow. South Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
A. semirosea Wkr. (51 b) is still smaller than neritosia, the light yellow distal spot proximally irre¬ 
gularly defined, a second, conical spot on the submedian. Hindwing light pink, at the proximal margin darker. 
Amazon (Teffe). 
A. perflua Wkr. (51a) is much larger than the preceding. Fore wings violettish-brown; large yellow: 
spots at the base, middle of proximal margin and at the border, smaller ones in the <$ round the cell-end; 
hindwings in the deep pink, in the $ browner. Rio de Janeiro. 
A. juvenis Schs. (51 a). Very dimorphous; particularly the $ repeats the colourings of numerous 
Amaxia, Neritos, Paranerita, Neaxia etc. A violettish-red proximal part of the forewing, resting broadly on 
the proximal margin, but leaving free the costa, is in a dentate incision defined towards the light yellow 
apical half which shows rows of fine dots and small rings and large spots marked red before the apex. In the 
$ the violettish-red basal part is very much mixed with yellow, and the preapical spots are connected with 
the brown at the proximal margin bv an oblique chain of spots parallel to the border and more or less com¬ 
plete. Mexico, apparently not rare. 
A. divisus H.-Schdff. (= marcapata Drc.) (46 1). Purple red, forewing at the base with a white dot. 
From the middle of the cell 2 curved, dark lines proceed; marginal area pale yellow with a purple apical spot; 
hindwing in the costal half hyaline, in the proximal half red. The $ has a hyaline spot encircled by red from 
the costa to the 1st median vein, hindwings light rosy-red. Size of juvenis. Peru *). 
A. ilioides Schs. (51 a) resembles some Carathis in the colouring (comp. p. 335); forewing light yellow 
with brown spots along the proximal margin and border, and marked with dark rings in the disc. Hindwing 
diaphanous white, at the proximal margin pink; abdomen orange. Guiana. 
A. ilus Cr. (51b) is larger (50 mm), the shape recalling Halisidota. In the whole forewing, except 
the apical quarter, the dark brown colour is preponderant, the yellow being interspersed in differently shaped 
small spots near the base, at the costa, and before the border. The small rings marked much smaller than in 
ilioides. Hindwing and dorsum of abdomen purple pink. Guiana, Colombia, and in a great part of Brazil. 
A. formona Schs. (51 b). Forewing pale yellow, in the disc dispersed dark markings, the veins red. 
A dark stripe extends from the base of the forewing to the anal angle, and a postmedian, densely dotted, dark 
line parallel to the border. Hindwings pink; abdomen above purple. Guiana. — This species also resembles a 
Halisidota. 
A. baritioides Rothsch. (51 b) is much smaller; on the forewing the pale yellow ground-colour is 
almost entirely covered by red shades, tinges, margins, and vein-streaks. Body and hindwings purple pink, 
the latter at the costal margin lighter. Amazon. 
A. ignivena Joicey (53 f). Size of juvenis -$ (51a). Forewing light red-brown, cell and the space 
behind it tinged dark brown, with which the brown of the marginal half of the proximal area is connected; 
veins red, red markings in the cell and disc; marginal half pale yellow; hindwings dark brown ; abdominal dorsum 
purple. Peru; founded upon 1 $. 
A. citrina Drc. (51 b). Forewing bright yellow with a red streak-spot from the base and above the 
proximal margin at the anal angle, above both red streaks grey markings; at the cell-end a small, greyish-red 
band, a minute ring-spot before the apical part. Hindwings white, abdominal dorsum purple. Venezuela and 
South Brazil. 
A. rosa Drc. (51 b). Larger; forewing lemon-coloured with a purple cloudy spot below the cell, a 
red transverse spot at the cell-end and a red, curved, above broad postmedian band; hindwings white, body 
yellow. Colombia. 
* The position is doubtful; p. 363 by mistake denominated as Antaxia dichroma , by Herricii-Schaeffer at 
first as Creatonotus, then as Echeta. Nor did DiverCE recognize it, and placed it as marcapata to Automolis, in spite of the 
venation of the hindwing. The paragraph on p. 363 is therefore to be eliminated. 
