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and a double inner-marginal stripe of the forewing are yet black. Otherwise the wings are quite white. — In 
all these forms the body is above brownish-black, head and abdominal end orange, marked black, patagia 
white. 
lindwing with a white klagesi. 
ockendeni. 
lativitta. 
n pi califs. 
cingulata. 
.semicosta- 
lis. 
A. klagesi Rothsch. (52 e). Black, forewing with a yellow transverse band, 
centre; abdomen laterally spotted yellow. Fontea Boa on the Amazon. 
A. ockendeni Rothsch. (52 e). Like the preceding, but the band of the forewing more uniform and 
more oblique, hindwing quite black, only at the base of the costa whitish. Abdomen laterally not yellow, Peru. 
— - lativitta Rothsch., from Fonte Boa on the Amazon, has a much broader band of the foi’ewing. — This species 
superficially resembles numerous South American night-butterflies from other groups (Syntomids, Agaristids), 
even Rhopalocera(Lymnas ) flying in the same districts. 
A. apicalis Wkr. has the band of the forewing shaped and situate almost exactly like in klagesi 
(52 e), but the abdomen is posteriorly metallic blue and the hindwings are unicolorous, without the white middle 
spot. Para. 
A. cingulata Rothsch. (52 f). Forewing with white veins and a very broad, yellowish oblique band 
abdomen with a broad, yellow ring. Ecuador. 
A. semicostalis Rothsch. (52 f). Veins of the forewings not white, but along the costal margin a white 
costal stripe as far as behind the middle of the wing; before the apical part a white oblique band ; sides of abdomen 
yellow. Beneath at the base of the hindwing a white, wedge-shaped spot being distally smoothly cut off. Amazon; 
Teffe, Fonte Boa. 
A. apicella Strd. (= apicalis Rothsch. nec Wkr. , albiapicalis Hmps.) (52 f) has a somewhat longer 
white costal-marginal stripe of the forewing than semicostalis , and the whole apical third of the forewing is 
yellowish-white. Bolivia. 
A. godmani Drc. (= striata Drc.) (52 f) has the forewings veined light and almost the whole apical 
half of the forewing is light yellow’. Hindwing white with a black border. Costa Rica and Panama. 
A. rutila Stoll was formerly taken to be the $ of godmani, but Lord Rothschild ascertained the 2 
which resembles the <$. Accordingly, rutila is a distinct species, but is very closely allied to godmani and differs 
essentially by the foreAving exhibiting only a yellow transverse band, but a dark brown apical part. — According 
to the larva, the species seems not to belong at all to Automolis (it Avas formerly placed in the Ischnocampa). 
The larva is black and in the hairing it resembles more a Halisidota-Wwa , since it is Avithout brush-shaped 
hair-bundles, Avhilst long, yellowish-white pencils project on the anterior and posterior parts. On Psidium 
pyriferum. Guiana and Venezuela as far as Peru. 
A. sanguistrigata Dgn. (52 f). Much smaller than the preceding, basal half of the foreAving purple- 
brown, apical half pale velloAV, costa and border tinged golden-yelloAV. HincLvings pale yelloAV, abdomen red. 
Guiana. 
A. sordida Rothsch. (52 f) is someAvhat larger, foreAving in the basal half marked purple, in the apical 
part the veins are red; the pale yelloAV part of the forewdng is comparatWely small, only about 1 3 of the Aving. 
Paraguay, Bolma and Peru. 
A. prumaloides Rothsch. (52 f). Smaller than sordida, easily distinguishable from the preceding by 
a bright purple tinge of the hindwings. It repeats the colourings of numerous Neaxia, Prumala, Neritos etc. 
from the same district. Amazon (Fonte Boa). 
A. submarginalis Rothsch. (52 g) is still smaller than the preceding, of an expanse of only 26 mm, 
otherwise similarly coloured and marked as sordida, but in the pale yelloAV apical third of the foreAving there 
are violettish-red spots embedded between the cell and apex. Minas Geraes in Brazil. 
A. leucopera Dgn. (52 g) has a whitish thorax Avith black dorsal dots and, like the proceding, a 
crimson dorsum of the abdomen. ForeAving dark brown, the apical third Avhite ; hindwing blackish-grey. Colombia. 
A. tuisana Schs. (52 g). Here the apical part of the forewing is white as far as beyond the middle 
of the wing; the smaller, brown basal half striped dark. BetAveen the radials a small white longitudinal dot. 
HindAving whitish, proximal half pink; abdomen except the apex purple. Costa Rica. 
A. semiopalina Fldr. (52 g). Forewing in the (larger) basal part brown with blackish internerval 
.streaks; apical third snow-white, between the radials projecting somewhat proximally, hindwings whitish-grey, 
shaded darker. Thorax white, abdomen above orange. Apparently very Avidely distributed, from Nicaragua 
through Guiana and the Amazon District to Bolivia and South Brazil. 
A. vitrea Stoll (52 g) resembles the preceding, but the dark, very much black-streaked basal area 
of the foreAving is irregularly defined towards the hyaline-white apical part, and particularly in the internerval 
region finely surrounded by yellow and bordered Avith a fine black line. Above the anal angle and in the 
apicella. 
godmani. 
tfila. 
sanguistri¬ 
gata. 
sordida. 
prumaloi¬ 
des 
submargi¬ 
nalis. 
leucopera. 
tuisana. 
semiopali¬ 
na. 
vitrea. 
