AUTOMERIS. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 
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a large ocellus surrounded by black, iris light olive brownish or reddish, the pupil divided into 3 spots, the 
middle one being the largest, pear-shaped, parted by a white bar; the blackish line behind it rather fine, 
undulate-dentate, behind it a broader brownish line; marginal area coloured as forewing. The $ has browner 
forewings, the yellowish-red abdomen mostly curled brownish. Venezuela, Guiana, Colombia, Brazil, Peru. 
The green larva with bluish-green branched thorns, oblong yellow sublateral spots and a brown last ring lives 
on species of Citrus. 
A. erisichton Bsdv. (= ecuadora Strd. nec Weym.) (107 d) is very similar to liberia, somewhat smaller, erisichton. 
more brownish-grey and more coarsely strewn, the transverse lines are more clearly outlined as distinct dark 
lines and not lighter on the inverted sides; the anterior line is almost straight and runs vertically to the inner 
margin, the posterior line is much more remote from the margin than in liberia, so that the median area is 
much narrower especially at the inner margin, the subterminal line is less sinuate. Ecuador. The figure 
supplied by Strand in Lep. Niepeltiana, pi. XII, fig. 4, belongs to this place here and has nothing to do 
with the type of Weymer’s ecuadora lying before me (cf. proximus Conte, p. 728!). 
A. falco Jord. (108 c) resembles liberia in colour and marking, but the apex of the forewing is longer falco. 
and falcatelv extended, the black abdominal belts are broader. On the forewing the discal spot is surrounded 
by 4 thick black dots, 3 outside, one inside below; exterior transverse line nearer to the margin, inside narrowly 
bordered with yellow. On the hindwing the brownish loam-coloured marginal band is somewhat narrower at 
the anal angle than in liberia. From South-Eastern Peru (Carabaya), described from 2 in the Berlin 
Museum from Bogota. 
A. coresus Bsdv. (107 d) is a common, well-known species from Southern Brazil, Argentina, and coresus. 
Paraguay. Forewing brown, basally dusted with white; transverse lines convergent towards the inner margin, 
the anterior line distallv angled on the median vein, the posterior line about 5 mm before the aj^ex with an 
inward bow, dark, on the inverted sides bordered with whitish or yellowish; the blackish or also whitish dusted 
discal spot shows black dots inside and outside, and a blackish central bar or dot; the oblique shadow behind 
it is very broad and dark like the subterminal area. Abdomen and hindwing in the disc yellowish-red with a 
large black-ringed ocellus with an extensive dark olive brown iris and an intensely white-strewn pupil and a 
more or less distinct white transverse bar; the black line behind it broad and undulating, behind it a rather 
broad brown nebulous stripe. Larva green with a white lateral line being above bordered with black, above 
the stigmata violettish-black small spots which are bordered with white below, with fir-tree like green thorns. 
The larva burns severely on being touched and is common on all kinds of trees in gardens and avenues. 
A. maculatus Conte (= curvilinea Sells.) (107 d) is hardly to be mistaken for any other species. Forewing maculatus. 
of $ brown, of $ dark grey, antemedian line blackish-brown, straight and almost vertical on the inner margin. 
Postmedian line forming a large inward bow, behind it an almost straight, nearly just as dark subterminal line; 
discal spot darker brown, above and below with velvety black spots, a smaller third spot may be present 
outside, or also absent. Hindwing of <$ orange, of $ dark olive grey, with a very large, broadly black-ringed 
ocellus with an olive brown iris and a very small white-strewn pupil; the interior subterminal line is broad, 
black, the exterior one narrower, brown. Abdomen reddish, with black bands. Guiana, Amazons (S. Paulo 
de Oliveira), Peru. 
A. phales Bsdv. is only known to me from the figure by Conte from the Coll. Oberthur. Forewing phales. 
rusty yellowish-brown, antemedian line yellowish, postmedian line slightly bent, likewise yellowish, somewhat 
undulate towards the apex; discal spot brownish, indistinct, with small black marginal dots; marginal area 
somewhat lighter. Hindwing yellowish red-brown, with a large yellowish-grey ocellus, broadly edged with 
black and with a white pupil; interior subterminal line undulate, black, exterior line brownish, indistinct. 
Thorax brown, abdomen yellowish-red. “South America.” 
A. flavomarginatus Conte (= morescoides Bouv.) (108 c) is a smaller species, forewing reddish-brown, flavomargi- 
basal area browner, the light brown antemedian line is dentate and distally dusted with yellow, the oblong 
brown discal spot white-centred; postmedian line deeply concave, terminating into the apex, brown, inside 
bordered with yellow; subterminal area brownish, marginal area lighter and more yellowish. Hindwing reddish- 
yellow, ocellus brown, narrowly bordered with black, the large pupil black, oblong with a large white spot and 
some white strewing, the black line behind it feebly undulate, behind it a dark brick-red band, margin violet. 
Chiefly separable from phales by the smaller and more oval ocellus. New Grenada. 
A. sinuatus Conte is very similar to flavomarginatus , somewhat larger, of a lighter and more yellowish sinuatus 
ground-colour; the antemedian line outside more broadly bordered with yellow, the discal spot white-centred; 
postmedian line almost straight, terminating at the costal margin about 4 or 5 mm before the apex. Hindwing rusty 
yellowish-red, ocellus somewhat oblong, the narrow black ring bordered with yellow; the black undulate line inside 
somewhat yellow, behind it a red-brown band. Expanse of wings: 78—90 mm. From New Grenada, French Guiana. 
A. ovalina Conte (109 a) is allied to the following zozine, but much smaller, the postmedian line much ovalina. 
deeper concave, and inwards, especially towards the inner margin very broadly bordered by pinkish white, 
the antemedian line being quite absent, the disc of the hindwing yellow, the base and inner margin red-haired; 
ocellus oval, pupil densely strewn with white, the undulating black line behind it broad, distally bordered with 
yellow, behind it follows a broad chestnut-brown band, margin lighter. Abdomen pink. South America ? 
