ZATREPHES. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
meridiona¬ 
lis. 
oceidenta- 
lis. 
borealis. 
intermedia. 
iybris. 
irregularis. 
pandiona. 
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ahdalsan. 
gnlorna. 
obscurata. 
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basal part whitish embedments. Some black antemarginal dots. Hindwing in the costal and inner-marginal 
area tinged pink. Abdomen above pink. South and Central Brazil and Bolivia. — meridionalis Rothsch. (52 h) 
is a form from Paraguay with a more yellowish-brown disc of the forewing, intermixed with numerous white 
clouds. — occidentalis Rothsch. from Peru greatly resembles the typical form, but like meridionalis it has a 
yolk-coloured, instead of rosy-red abdominal dorsum. — borealis Rothsch. (52 h), finally, from Alexico and 
Central America, which 1 figure from Orizaba, has the dark part of the forewing light yellowish-brown, striped 
jet-black, above slightly intermixed with white. Abdomen above orange; the largest form. 
A. intermedia Rothsch. (52 g) is very much like the preceding, but the dark basal part is very much 
intermixed with white, and in the hyaline apical part there are again numerous, yellowish-brown dim spots. 
Between the radials before the border there is an oval brown spot and above the proximal margin there is a 
thick, dark longitudinal spot extending as far as into the submedian space. Colombia (Villavieencio) and Peru. 
A. tybris Cr. (52 g). Larger than intermedia, through the apical part along the border a yellowish- 
brown macular band, proximally accompanied by a chain of small crescents. Hindwings dull greyish-yellow, 
at the proximal margin more yellow. Panama, Demerara. 
A. irregularis Rothsch. (52 h). Only the $ is described, according to one specimen from Fonte Boa 
in the Thing Museum. Immediately recognizable by the border of the forewing being somewhat indented in 
the middle and by 2 uncommonly large furry scent-spots on the under surface, in the forewing over the whole 
proximal margin, in the hindwing in the costal area covering almost the whole cell. The colour of the wings 
is a dark yolk-colour, the hindwings paler, the forewing in the disc somewhat lighter, intermixed with small 
light spots, those between the radials below the cell and above the anal angle being the most distinct; besides 
there are also fine, red markings. Hindwings tinged rosy; abdomen red. 
A. pandiona Rothsch. (52 h). This and the following species already greatly approximate the Zatrephes 
and differ from all the Automolis by the forewing being angled at the exit of the middle radial. Forewing of 
pandiona purple-brown mixed with smaller and larger spots which are mostly margined by reddish and tinted 
ochreous, of which, however, one in the cell, a row of 4 or 5 behind the cell-end and 1 below the apex are hyaline. 
A white spot near the base. Hindwings yellowish-pink, in the $ purple-red. Guiana, Bolivia and Peru. 
A, subtruncata Rothsch. (52 h). Similar to the preceding, larger, in the forewing only 2 spots between 
the radials are faintly diaphanous and larger, one above them and one below them small, punctiform. The 
distal half of the forewing, except the yellowish marginal spots, uniformly violet. Hindwing yellowish-pink, 
towards the base lighter. Described from South Brazil; the figured specimen from the Rio Songo in Bolivia. 
A. excavata Schs. (52 h). Still larger than the preceding; forewing uniformly red-brown, little marked, 
only the two spots between the radial veins and 4 at the border yellowish hyaline; hindwings and abdomen 
purple, tinted ochreous. Costa Rica. 
A. abdaisan Schs. from Guatemala has a dark grey thorax with orange stripes across the patagia. 
Abdomen black, above and laterally with blue metallic spots. Forewing with an orange-yellow longitudinal 
stripe and ochreous-yellow veins. Hindwing with an orange-yellow costal half 26 mm. Guatemala. (Sphingidea- 
group.) 
A. goloma Schs. Orange-yellow, abdomen posteriorly black with metallic blue spots; forewing yellow, 
between veins 2 and 5 there are 3 marginal spots sometimes flown together to a marginal band; hindwing with 
a dark marginal shade. 37, $ 42 mm. Guatemala. (Salma-group.) 
A. obscurata Schs. Quite recently described according to a $ from Cayuga, Guatemala. Type in 
the Museum at Washington. Thorax grey, marked purple, abdomen above purple. Forewing dark brownish- 
grey, purple streaks at the base, of the costal and proximal margins, in and below the cell, on the submedian 
and median, the latter as far as the border; yellow shades and spots at the cell and middle of the proximal 
margin; veins 3 to 6 streaked red; between 6 and 7 a greyish-red postmedian spot; border irregularly yellow; 
an antemarginal brown spot on vein 7; on the veins small brown marginal spots. Hindwings black. 28 mm. 
Unknown to me *). 
48. Genus : Zatrephes Hhn. 
By far the greatest part of this genus consisting almost only of quite similarly coloured and marked 
species was described by Lord Rothschild in 1909 and the outlines adduced here are chiefly based upon his 
statements, verbally and pictorial. The marking of the forewings almost invariably consists of 2 or 3 parallel 
transverse lines on a yellow or red ground and frequently of an irregular vitreous spot behind the cell-end. The 
forewings are in a number of species angled, and these species are closely allied to the species enumerated last 
*) A. ochreogaster Joicey (53 f). All white with a pale yellow abdomen. This Arctiid was described as Automolis. 
but according to Hampson, it is said to belong to the genus Prumala (p. 344). Paraguay. 
