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AMASTUS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
aisa. A. alsa Drc. (47 d) is smaller, but with broader wings than the preceding, the forewing diaphanous 
chestnut-brown, with a broad, light submarginal band. The whole body is also uniformly dark red-brown, 
and the hyaline hindwing is tinted so. Dominica (Peru). 
; pseudocolla - A. pseudocollaris Rothsch. (48 b). Forewing diaphanous brown with a blackish transverse antemarginal 
ris - stripe and dark shades in the costal area. Head and thorax marked white and orange, abdomen deep orange-red. 
From the Volcano of Chiriqui in Panama. 
coliaris. A. collaris H.-Schaff. (48 c). Forewing violettish-brown, very diaphanous with a yellowish-brown 
marginal area before which there is a triple arcuate light brown transverse band. Hindwing whitish hyaline. 
Head and thorax orange, marked white; dorsum of abdomen orange, apex of it black, laterally and behind 
spotted white. Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador to Peru. 
f lav id us. A. flavidus Dgn. (47 d). Forewing crossed by black transverse stripes, and with a dentate subterminal 
line. The subbasal transverse stripe is curved, the two median ones in the disc extinct, the postmedian stripe 
broad and straight. Abdomen yolk-coloured. Colombia; the figured specimen from Paclio, Eastern Cordilleras. 
maculicinc- A. maculicincta Hmps. (47 d) from Bolivia exhibits on the forewing beside the dark transverse bands, 
ta ■ before the marginal third, a curved chain of black, yellow-pupilled rings. Abdominal dorsum hemochrome, 
behind black and white. 
jlavicauda. A. flavicauda Rothsch. (48 c) is larger, lighter, instead of the curved chain of rings before the marginal 
third of the forewing of maculicincta there is a faded chain of spots, in the marginal area itself a row of small 
subterminal crescents. Dorsum of abdomen hemochrome, behind hemochrome. Costa Rica and Panama. 
roscnbergi. A. rosenbergi Rothsch. (48 c) is similarly marked to the preceding, darker, the transverse bands of 
the forewing distinct and complete, the antemedian and median transverse bands are broad, in and before 
the marginal third one chain each of dark brown ring-spots parallel to the margin. Abdomen hemochrome. 
Colombia. 
antonlo. A. ailtorsio Dgn. (48 c) is one of the southernmost species, from Tucuman, and already rather small. 
Forewing lead-coloured grey, with dark veins, a dark shade at the cell-end, and a whitish submarginal undulate 
line. Hindwing hyaline white, abdomen hemochrome. 
rhodator. A. rhodafor Hmps. (47 e), from the Bolivian district neighbouring to Tucuman, is very much like 
antohio, somewhat larger, the cell-end spot of the forewing is not so much shaded, the submarginal, small white 
lunae are more pointed. 
cymothoe. A. cymothoe Drc. (48 a). Wings hyaline, the forewing at the costa and proximal margin whitish 
speckled with dark brown, the head red and white, thorax brown and white, the abdomen above hemochrome 
with a black centre. Colombia and Bolivia. 
fulvizonata. A. fulvizonata Hmps. (48 d) is on the wings almost exactly like cymothoe, but the thorax is almost 
entirely white, in front marked red and brown, and the dorsum of the abdomen is quite vermilion without a 
black centre. Colombia to Peru. 
minerva. A. minerva Dgn. (47 f) has the body exactly like in cymothoe, i. e. the abdomen is red with a black 
dorsal centre, but on the forewing the costal and proximal-marginal spots represent the beginnings and ends 
of brown bands traversing the whole forewing. Colombia to Bolivia. 
watkinsi. A. watkinsi Rothsch. (48 e) is somewhat larger than minerva and cymothoe, the forewing traversed by 
dark bands, with a white basal area and a broad white median band. Abdomen yolk-coloured, laterally spotted 
black. Peru. 
steiribachi. A. steinbachi Rothsch. (48 e) is the most beautiful and variegated species; forewing crossed by brown 
and white transverse lines and bands, as well as by chains of yellow spots and crescents. Thorax white, finely 
marked purple brown, abdominal dorsum haired hemochrome. From Tucuman (Argentina). 
polystrigata. A. polystrigata Dgn. (47 e) has quite the shape of the wings of Hemihyalea to which it is probably 
nrore closely allied than to most of the Amastus. Forewing bone-coloured, recognizable by the numerous white 
and dark brown transverse striae. Abdomen yolk-coloured. Guiana, Venezuela and Peru; the figured specimen 
from the Upper Rio Negro. 
aurantiacus. A. aurantiacus Rothsch. (48 d). Like the preceding with numerous bone-coloured and dark brown 
transverse striae on the forewing, but the ground-colour of the body and wings is a fiery purple pink, in some 
places tinted yellow. Tegulae and patagia with black dots. From "the Chanchamayo in Peru. It was described 
as Opharus ; nor is it probably a genuine Amastus. 
drucei. A. drucei Rothsch. (48 e) resembles rufescens (48 a), but the submarginal line is more finely undulate, 
and the $ hindwing only at the margin tinged red, otherwise hyaline. Abdomen scarlet. Peru. 
