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AUTOMERIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
flammans. 
obscura. 
zozine. 
melanofs. 
nebulosus. 
elegans. 
basalis. 
boucardi. 
violacea. 
zugana. 
jivaros. 
vinosus. 
A. flammans Schs. resembles ovalina, but it is much larger, with relatively narrow wings. Body 
pinkish brown like the wing; forewing with a yellow oblique line from the apex to the centre of the inner 
margin, and an indistinct discal spot, antemedian line absent. Hindwing smoky brownish-grey, costal and 
distal margin brownish-pink, border and fringe light brown; ocellus black with a reddish-brown pupil and a 
white centre, in a deep yellow ring, behind it a black undulate line. Type a $ with an expanse of 102 mm, 
from Colombia. 
A. obscura Schs. (109 c), owing to the similar marking, is ranged best near flammans. Wings relatively 
thinly scaled, blackish, strewn with golden brown hair-scales; the undulate antemedian line indistinct, discal 
spot large, extinct, the black straight postmedian line from close before the apex to the centre of the inner 
margin. Hindwing similarly coloured with a black, uniformly bent distal line and a feeble dark discal spot. 
The $ is still more thinly scaled and more indistinctly marked. Brazil. 
A. zozine Drc. (109 a). Ground-colour brown, variable, warming into olive, coffee, or reddish, ante¬ 
median line with two bows, discal spot slightly darker than the ground, feebly marked with black, postmedian 
line very feebly bent, outside bordered with whitish or reddish-grev, which colour covers more or less the whole 
marginal portion. Subterminal line shadow-like. Hind wing at the costal and distal margins like the marginal 
area of the forewing, inner margin with claret-coloured hairs, disc deep yellow; ocellus of medium size, broadly 
surrounded by black, in the disc variably strewn with white. Inner subterminal line black, slightly undulate, 
exterior line broader, brown. Abdomen yellowish-grey, above black, basally with claret-coloured hairs. In 
the Coll. Draudt a hybrid, size, colours and marking of wings exactly middling between and $, antennae 
to the left <$, to the right $, abdomen stronger than in the d\ though not quite reaching the $ volume, with 
id clasping-organs. Mexico, a common species. 
A. inelanops Wkr. (= brasiliensis Bsdv. nec Wkr., euryopa Mschlr.) (109 a) is very similar to zozine, 
somewhat larger on an average, mostly redder, apex of forewing more falcate, discal spot generally somewhat 
more distinctly outlined, postmedian line outside not so distinctly bordered with light, the short-subapical 
oblique band to it more distinctly marked. Ocellus of hindwing larger, whereby the yellow disc is reduced. 
In Brazil everywhere common, also in Colombia. It is impossible that the figure supplied by Conte in his 
Essai, pi. XXI, fig. 3, which is undoubtedly a species from the hub wen-group — probably amphirene Bsdv. —, 
really belongs to melanops ; the description is entirely different. 
A. nebulosus Conte (109 a). Front body dark red-brown, abdomen pinkish-red. Forewing red-brown, 
basal area darker, central area somewhat lighter, the large oval discal spot darker, bordered with black; 
postmedian line straight, ending far before the apex, inwardly bordered with white. Disc of hindwing yellow, 
base and inner margin extensively pink-haired; the large ocellus almost quite brownish-black, in the centre 
strewn somewhat white, without a black pupil, with a broad black ring; the black line behind it broad, not 
undulate, outside with a somewhat yellow border, behind it a pinkish-brown band, the margin light brown. 
Expanse of wings: 7 cm. South America? elegans Conte is presumably only a variable specimen, separated 
by a grey discal spot of a more angular shape, and a smaller ocellus. 
A. basalis Wkr. (110 a) is well recognizable by the peculiarly dull colouring; forewing light brown, in 
the median area somewhat lighter, at the base a yellowish-white spot, the dull brown discal spot white-centred, 
the lines fine, the posterior line often strong, extending from 5 or 6 mm before the apex behind the centre of 
the inner margin, inside feebly bordered with a lighter colour. Hindwing dull brown, at the inner margin 
sometimes with a very feebly pink tint, in the disc dull reddish-yellow, the ocellus very dull, brown, gradually 
warming into the blackish ring, in the centre strewn with white, with a white transverse bar; behind the black 
undulate distal line a very broad brown band, margin lighter. Abdomen very dull pinkish brown. Venezuela 
to Brazil. 
A. boucardi Drc. (109 a) is extraordinarily similar to zozine, somewhat larger, abdomen longer, forewing 
more reddish, more coarsely scaled, the marginal area not so contrastingly light, but the median area rather 
lighter, discal spot outside in the middle more prominent, more distinctly marked, postmedian line outside 
not so light. Hindwing more extensively claret-coloured, the marginal area narrower, with more prominently 
dark veins. Costa Rica. violacea Conte, based upon a exhibits a darker violettish brown ground-colour 
of the fore wing, the hindwing also showing a violet tint except the yellow disc. 
A. zugana Drc. is somewhat smaller, of a lighter and more yellowish ground-colour, the abdomen is 
black above and shows yellowish ochreous bands. Disc of hindwing, dull yellow, with dull rusty red hairs at 
the base and inner margin, the ocellus of medium size, behind it a rounded black line and then a brown band. 
From Panama (Chiriqui). 
A. jivaros Dogn. (109 b) is likewise very similar to the preceding species, but at once discernible by 
the inner margin of the hindwing not being red but black. On the forewing the somewhat more curved post¬ 
median line is more prominent, outside less light; the interior subterminal line of the hindwing is broad black, 
little undulate. Ecuador; Peru. 
A. vinosus Conte ( — meridana Schs.) (109 b) is distinguished by relatively broad forewings, light 
reddish-brown, dusted with olive, the transverse lines on the inverted sides bordered with ochreous; discal spot 
