AUTOMOLLS. By i)r. A. Seitz. 
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A. juno Schs. Forewings ochreous-yellow, suffused with greyish-brown. Below the cell a white spot j U no. 
near the base, an antemedian yellow band bordered with red, at the cell-end a feeble purple spot, in the distal 
part yellow spots bordered with red in a curved row as far as beyond the proximal margin, between the radial 
veins 3 yellow, diaphanous moon-spots, behind them a row of 5 similar spots and a row of yellow antemarginal 
spots. Hindwing pink, in and below the cell yellow streaks, also the fringes yellow. The $ lias before the apical 
area of the forewing a small vitreous spot, but no yellow spots behind it; the antemarginal spots mostly smaller. 
Size of the preceding. Guiana and South Brazil. 
A. rubrireta Dgn. (51 b, c) is larger than the preceding, particularly the £. In the <$ the forewing is rubrireta. 
yolk-coloured with red dentate lines, a costal stripe and a stripe across the cell-end to the anal angle dark brown; 
the ^ has quite brown forewings in which the yellow ground-colour appears only yet in single, small, round 
spots. Hindwing yellowish pink, the part round the cell lighter. — rhodocyma Dgn. (51 c) is presumably only rhodocyma. 
a form of this species, in which the dark brown postmedian band is interrupted and its lower part bent down 
towards the border. — brunneireta Dgn. (51 d) are A A in which the dark brown of the forewing is almost as brunneirela. 
expanded as in rubrireta -$. — To this the form rhodographa Dgn. (51 d) may belong as the §, deviating from rhodogra- 
the rubrireta by the darkened yellow spots of the forewing and by the hindwings being uniformly brownish. —- P ,ia - 
Peru. 
A. flammans Hmps. (51 d). A magnificent, purple-brown, large butterfly tinged rosy, with an irre- flammans. 
gularly shaped, discal vitreous spot dotted purple, and silvery white spots near the base, at the costal margin 
and border. Hindwings diaphanous white, at the costal and proximal margins broadly pinkish-brown. Colombia, 
apparently rare; before me only from the malarious village of Muzo. 
A. subflammans Rothsch. (51 d) is a closely allied form, somewhat smaller, the dotted vitreous spot subflam- 
of the forewing more band-shaped and more remote from the border. South Brazil and Bolivia (the figured mans 
specimen from the Rio Songo). It might be the southern form of flammans , but the latter is reported to have 
been found also in Santa Catharina. —■ fulminans Rothsch. (51 cl) is perhaps only the $ of it or of a very closely fulmmans. 
allied form, distinguished by the absence of the marginal spots and a smaller discal spot and by the absence 
of the black dorsal dots on the abdomen. South Brazil. 
A. perflammans Dgn. (51 e) is much smaller than flammans and has a much smaller discal spot and 
very small marginal spots. From Guiana. 
A. grandis Drc. (51 c). Next to the white leucoptera the largest Automolis. Forewings purple-brown, 
in the disc 5 oval vitreous spots, the costal one being the smallest, and in the cell a hyaline triangle. hind¬ 
wing yellowish, towards the base tinged pink, costal area diaphanous. Bolivia (Rio Songo) and Ecuador. 
A. sanguinolenta Cr. (51 e) is quite ruddle-red, suffused with purple, between the cell-end and border 
in the forewing a small, oblong vitreous spot, a violet ante-and a postmedian stripe meet before the middle 
of the proximal margin and enclose an orange-red layer encircled by purple; hindwings purple-pink; Surinam, 
Bolivia. — justina Cr., before me from Villavicencio (Coll. Fassl), is smaller, the postcellular vitreous spot 
is rounder and the violet oblique transverse stripes are more separated. — cruenta Rothsch. (51 e) is still 
smaller, the vitreous spot of the forewing round, the hindwings quite diaphanous, only at the border of a brighter 
pink. — The larva deviates so much from the other Automolis- larvae known, that the insertion in this genus 
is scarcely maintainable. It lives on the Papaya-tree, is quite uniformly densely covered with very fine, whitish 
hair on dark tubercles, without any pencils or brushes, the colour at first reddish-yellow, in the grown-up state 
above black, only the venter and sides being yet red. 
A. buckleyi Drc. from Ecuador differs from the figured harterti Rothsch. (51 e) by more uniformly 
orange-red colouring, harterti conies from the Amazon (Fonte Boa) and Colombia; we figure it from Muzo. — 
whitfordi Rothsch. is quite similar, but the proximal half of the forewing is quite vermilion, and the black 
lines bordering on the bone-coloured costal and basal spots, are more intense; from Guiana. 
A. garleppi Dr. (= mirabilior Dyar) (51 e) resembles the preceding, of a bright vermilion with rosy- 
red hindwings, the whitish-yellow costal spots of the forewings smaller; above the anal angle there is yet a 
large, oval, grey spot; from Peru and Bolivia. — inversa Rothsch. (51 e) from Peru connects this species with 
the preceding, for the bone-coloured costal spots are as large as there, and the grey spot above the anal angle 
of the forewing is not even half as large as in typical garleppi, though still larger than in buckleyi. — In 
maronensis Rothsch. the grey anal-angular spot is not quite so small as in inversa, but still smaller than in 
typical garleppi; from Guiana. — pallidipennis Lord Rothschild denominates specimens from Fonte Boa, 
where the hindwings are only tinged scarlet at the inner-marginal area, otherwise they are diaphanous of a 
buff colour. —- The assertion that buckleyi and garleppi are separate species can be hardly upheld. 
per flam- 
mans. 
grandis. 
sanyumo- 
lenta. 
justina. 
cruenta. 
buckleyi. 
harterti. 
whitfordi. 
garleppi. 
inversa. 
maronensis. 
pallidipen- 
n is. 
A. docis Him. ( = basalis Wkr.) (51 f) is a still more variable form than the preceding. The type docis. 
has a black head and body, an orange-red stripe on the patagia, on the abdomen a red-yellow saddle-spot and 
behind it lustrous blue dots; forewing with a red stripe angled at the cell-end, extending from near the base 
of the proximal margin to below the apex, sending a thick branch from the cell-end towards the costal margin. 
