AUTOMOLIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. '.IT.l 
and in the hindwing a marginal band being broader in the <$. Costa Rica; in Amazon specimens only the costal- 
marginal part of the hindwing is yellow. — Abdomen always with a yellow belt. 
A. strigosa Wkr. (51 h). Black, forewing in the distal half with long, dull whitish-grey longitudinal 
spots, behind the cell-end a long snow-white spot; hindwing with a whitish diaphanous centre. Patagia with a 
white centre, dorsum of abdomen with a yellow lateral spot divided by a dark tinge. Panama, Colombia, Brazil. 
— In the $ (= subulifera Fldr.) the light longitudinal spots are shorter, broader, more oval. Apparently rare. 
A. albiplaga Schs. (51 h) is black with a white, round postcellular spot on the forewing and a white 
centre of the hindwing; patagial apex white; dorsum of abdomen with an orange lateral spot. Guiana and 
South Brazil. 
A. chionoplaga Dgn. (51 i) is much larger than albiplaga-, forewing with a large, white postmedian 
disc; hindwing with a whitish centre. Head yellow, abdomen with a red belt. Panama. 
A. niveomaculata Rothsch. (51 i). Like the preceding, but the wings of a much duller colouring, on 
the veins and in the innermarginal area and submedian space of the forewing white, dorsum of abdomen with 
a yellow lateral spot. From Peru and the Upper Rio Negro (Colombia). - leucoplaga Dgn. (51 i) has a larger 
disc of the forewing, the white vein-stripes in the inner-marginal area are almost confluent, and the hindwings 
are quite white except a narrow margin. Described from the Chanchamayo in Peru, the figured specimen, 
however, also originates from Colombia. 
A. dolens Drc. (52 b). Blackish-brown, forewing with a white antemedian transverse band and pre- 
apical oblique band, from the exit of which the border is white as far as the anal angle, the basal half of 
the hindwing being also white. Tegulae and patagia white, the ring at the abdominal base yellow. South Brazil 
(Castro) and Paraguay. 
A. zonana Sch-s. (51 i) is quite similar, but above the anal angle on the border a sacciform, whitish- 
yellow spot, the border otherwise not white; — in ab. incompleta ab. nov. (52 b) the sacciform spot is absent 
altogether or only traces left of it. Guiana and Bolivia. 
• A. moma Schs. (51 i) resembles the two preceding, but the bands of the forewings are lemon- 
coloured, the apical one steeper, the antemedian one in typical specimens very broad, in the form tenuifascia 
Rothsch. (from South Brazil) narrow. Collar broad lemon-coloured; abdomen, however, at the base not white, 
but with a postmedian orange ring being broad in the Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia. 
A. angulosa Wkr. ( — flavicinctus H.-Schdff.) (52 b). Marking of the preceding, but the bands of 
the forewings and the collar orange, and instead of the orange belt before the end of the abdomen, the base 
of the abdomen is here dark yellow. In the typical form from Colombia and Brazil the bands of the 
forewing are quite narrow, as in moma tenuifascia, in griseonitens Rothsch. (52 b) from Bolivia and Peru they 
are much broader, and in ardesiaca Rothsch. (52 b) from Guiana to Venezuela the ground-colour of the forewings 
is bleached to a dull brownish-grey. 
A. schistaceus Rothsch. (52 b) is like angulosa, but the forewing without the band in the apical 
part. Venezuela. 
A. tegyra Drc. (52 c). Bands of forewings yellow, the posterior one being steeper and angled behind 
the cell; the abdomen except the black apex quite golden yellow. From the Chiriqui in Panama. 
A. gyrata Schs. from,Guatemala is entirely like tegyra, but the basal half of the abdomen above black. 
A. rectiradia Hmps. (52 b). The light bands of the forewings more blurred, the posterior one only 
in the costal part, separated from the dark greyish-brown inner-marginal area by a light longitudinal ray 
through the middle of the forewing. Also on the hindwing there is a dark brown margin, but no sharply defined 
marginal band. Head, collar and patagia bone-white', marked pink, abdomen on both sides black. Surinam, 
Amazon, and Colombia. 
A. catharinae Rothsch. (52 b). Similar to rectiradia, larger, the proximal band of the forewing at 
the proximal margin quite narrow, the distal transverse band absent, instead of it along the costa a yellow 
stripe. South Brazil: Santa Catharina, Organ Mountains. 
A. diluta Fldr. (52 c). Here the yellow transverse bands of the preceding are altogether absent ; dark 
dusty-grey, costal margin of the forewing broad sulphureous; near the base a small dark transverse band, along 
the median faintly lighter. On the under surface also the base of the hindwing is sulphureous. Mexico, Central 
America, Para. 
A. vampa Schs. (52 c), much smaller than the preceding, quite ochreous-yellow; forewing with a 
dark cell-encl dot, blackish veins in the apical part and a yellowish-brown band beginning broad before the 
middle of the costa and terminating much narrower into the border above the anal angle. Costa Rica. 
A. polystria Schs. (52 c) is quite similar, of a paler yellow, the vein-streaks in the apical part of the 
forewing shorter, but stronger, also in the brown oblique band of the forewing distinct , black streaks. Guiana. 
A. vittipes Drc. (52 c). Pale ochreous-yellow, the forewing with black parallel rays above, in and 
below the cell, growing shorter towards the proximal margin; another pencil of parallel rays goes through the 
middle of the marginal area. In typical specimens the dorsum of the abdomen is purple-red, and the yellow 
of the forewing has a reddish tone. Such specimens occur on the volcano Chiriqui in Panama, and in Muzo 
strigosa. 
albiplaga. 
chiono pla- 
ga. 
niveomacu- 
lalu. 
leucoplaga. 
dolens. 
zonana. 
incouipleta. 
moma. 
tenuifascia. 
angulosa. 
griseoni¬ 
tens. 
ardesiaca. 
sch istaceus. 
tegyra. 
gyrata. 
rectiradia. 
catharinae. 
diluta. 
ram pa¬ 
pal ystria. 
vittipes. 
