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the base above haired pinkish-red. Hindwing ochreous, in the disc diaphanous, at the margin brownish. 
Recognizable by the antemarginal band being more flatly undulate. Colombia to Ecuador. 
A. umber Rothsch. (47 b). Head, thorax and forewing chestnut-brown, the latter with very feebly umber. 
lighter bands. Hindwing diaphanous chestnut-brown with darker margins; abdomen above miniate, the apical 
part warming into a golden yellow. From Merida’in Venezuela. 
A. paramensis Dgn. (48 b) is much larger than subterminata (p. 421), very similarly coloured, but the paramensis. 
forewing is more brightly striated light, and the subterminal band is just a bit lighter than the ground-colour. 
It is twice undulated, but at the anal angle about just as broad as at the costa, whilst in the preceding it is 
here not half as broad as at the costal margin. Colombia. 
A. tolimensis Rothsch. (48 b) is quite greyish-brown, tinted yellowish-brown, the forewing almost tolimensis. 
unmarked, only with a yellowish brown, not undulate, but a slightly curved subterminal band. Hindwing 
in the centre lighter whitish. Captured by Fassl on Mt. Tolima in Colombia. 
A. rufator Wkr. (47 b). [Thorax and forewing monotonously deep red-brown, the subterminal line is rufator. 
light, undulate, proximally shaded with dark. Colombia. 
A. rufescens Rothsch. (48 a) is quite similar to rufator, the forewing is almost exactly alike, darker, rufescens. 
but the hindwing is not tinged yellowish as in rufator, but pink, and the abdomen is here hemochrome. Peru. 
— ab. rothschildiana Strd. is a specimen from Peru in the Tring Museum, in which the subterminal band of rothscMl- 
the forewing is extinct and the dark shade at the cell-end replaced by 2 dark dots. diayia. 
A. coprophora H,-Schaff. (48 b) has the forewing uni-coloured brownish-violet with a light, feebly coprophora. 
undulate subterminal band, the body is orange, the thorax marked violettish-grey. Colombia and Venezuela. 
A. medica Dgn., hitherto only known from Loja in Ecuador, is somewhat larger than rufator (47 b). mcdica. 
Thorax and abdomen above purple pink, shoulders and collar olive-yellow, forewing dark red-brown with a 
dark spot at the cell-end, and a postmedian light transverse band expanding into a spot at the costa and proximal 
margin. 
A. ochraceator Wkr. (47 c). Body yolk-coloured, head and thorax marked greenish, forewing cchraccaior. 
diaphanous tan-coloured, with a light, undulate subterminal band and a Y-shaped, broad median band. From 
Mexico to Bolivia, mostly common. 
A. aconia H.-Schdff. (47 d) is very similar to ochraceator , but the head is all white, only before the aconia. 
eyes very finely margined with orange. Thorax white, with orange marking. Abdomen yolk-coloured. Wings 
quite diaphanous light tan-coloured with dark veins and dull nebulous bands. Costa Rica and Colombia to 
Venezuela. One of the largest species; common on the lantern. 
A. persimilis Hmps. (47 c) is almost exactly like ochraceator , but the head and thorax above are marked persimilis. 
white. In the $ the hindwing is grey. Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 
A. rumina Drc. (= aconia Drc. nec H -Schaff.) (48 a) so much resembles the preceding that both rumina, 
the species are often found intermingled in the collections, rumina has still more hyaline wings than aconia, 
though they are more intensely tinged tan-coloured, the head is all white and the thorax preponderately so, 
the orange colour only being left on a narrow stripe on the patagia, the posterior edge of the tegulae, and a 
stripe on the sides of the mesothorax. Apex of $ abdomen black. Costa Rica. 
A. genoveva Dgn. (47 f). Forewing almost exactly coloured and marked as in aconia, but at the genoveva. 
costal margin with a yellow, at the proximal margin with a brown longitudinal stripe. Easily recognized by 
the mesothorax and abdomen not being yolk-coloured as in aconia, but hemochrome. Head, prothorax and 
patagia white with a honey-coloured tinge; of the same colour are the sides of the abdomen. Merida in Venezuela. 
A. coccinator Schs. (47 c). Body quite purple pink, head and thorax marked white. Forewing coccinator. 
diaphanous red-brown, the darker marginal third traversed by a submarginal band. Hindwing quite hyaline. 
From Colombia and Venezuela to Peru and Bolivia, apparently not rare. 
A. episcotosia Dgn. (47 e). At once recognizable by its gigantic size as well as by the thickly dark- episcotosia. 
scaled forewing and the dark brown colouring, and by the white bands on the thorax and abdominal end. 
Described from Panama; the figured specimen from Orosi, the volcano of Irazu in Costa Rica. 
A. elongata Fldr. (47 f) is very much smaller than episcotosia, the forewing not so dark brown, with elongaia. 
a light costal-marginal stripe and light, incomplete transverse bands. Abdomen red with a yellow apex, hindwing 
yellowish-brown, towards the margin darker. Recognizable by the remarkably long and narrow, almost Sphingid- 
like forewings. Guiana and South Brazil. 
