Publ. 21. X 1929. 
AUTOMERIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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concave towards the margin. Hindwing dark yellow with a slight greenish tint, basally and at the inner margin 
with blackish and brownish red hair, the small ocellus blackish grey with a white pupil and a broad black ring; 
behind it follows a broad black band, behind which there is another band. Brazil. 
A. inomata Wkr. (— fumosa Bsdv.) (110 a). A very variable, unicoloured blackish grey species more inornata. 
or less tinted brownish, only the abdomen showing some yellowish ochreous hairs; forewing basally and behind 
the slightly concave postmedian line darkened, the roundish darker discal spot mostly white-centred. Hindwing 
with a dull darker ringed, blind ocellus and 2 arcuate lines behind it, the interior line darker, sometimes feebly 
undulate, the posterior one somewhat broader and lighter. In the $ the abdomen shows more distinct ochreous 
rings. Common in Brazil. — obsoleta Niepelt is surely an albino variation of this species with exactly the same ob.wleta. 
scheme of markings, of a much lighter, pale yellowish-grey colouring and an especially lighter ochreous body. 
The type from S. Paulo has been before me through the kindness of Mr. Niepelt. Such albinisms seem to be 
of frequent occurrence in the genus Automeris, a very fine specimen from the Berlin Museum, evidently 
belonging to basalis, shows on its pale yellowish-grev ground all the markings, also the ocellus, only feebly 
marked as darker shadows. 
A. violascens Maass. (114 g) is an entirely different insect which, however, does not fit into the genus violascens. 
Hylesia. Sooty black, thinly scaled, abdomen intermixed with scanty ochreous hairs; the obsolete marking 
consists of 2 shadow-like widened transverse lines, the inner one quite indistinct, the outer one feebly incurved 
from % of the inner margin to shortly before the apex, between both a hazy thick discal spot. On the similarly 
coloured hindwing the ocellus is feebly ring-shaped, very hazily showing through from beneath, close at it a 
very obsolete postmedian line, behind which the somewhat more distinct subterminal line follows, approaching 
the margin. Sa. Catharina. 
A. modesta Men. (= midea Mssn., aspersus Bouv.) (110 b). Forewing dark yellowish-brown, the modesla. 
anterior transverse line hardly visible, yellowish, the posterior line yellow, from about 5 mm before the apex 
almost parallel to the margin to about 5 mm before the inner angle, before it at the costal margin intensely 
white-haired, in the narrow marginal area with a very feeble yellowish undulate subterminal line; the discal 
spot is feebly darkened grey, distally three-pronged with fine black dots in the tips and one in the centre. 
Hindwing on the copper-red ground darker and more blackish than forewing, only at the margin the same; the 
ocellus surrounded with a yellow ring which is outside finely bordered with black, the yellow inner border of 
the black undulate subterminal line inwardly edged with blackish, too. Guiana to Brazil (Para). 
A. bilinea Wkr. (110 b) is not dissimilar and easily discernible by the dull violettish brick-reddish tint bilinea. 
of the disc of the hindwing; forewing lighter and intensely strewn with whitish violet, the purest white in the 
basal area and at the costal margin before the apex, the marginal area remains purer yellowish, the postmedian 
line more bent and extending directly from the apex to about 8 mm before the inner angle: also here the 
yellow ring of the ocellus is outside finely bordered with black like the very fine yellow interior border of the 
subterminal line. From Brazil (Para). - vividior /. n. is very similar, somewhat smaller, still more contrastingly vividior. 
strewn with white, abdomen yellow, hindwing in the disc bright yellowish-red, the light yellow ring around 
the ocellus broader. Probably only the Guiana-form of bilinea. 
A. orneates Drc. (108 d, 110 c) is most similar to modesta and unmistakable. Shape of wings remarkably omcatcs. 
high, with very falcate apices; brown, at the apex almost black, before it with a broad, often obsolete ochreous 
oblique band; subterminal line close at the margin and parallel to it. Hindwing almost black with a small 
yellow-ringed ocellus, the narrow marginal area brownish ochreous. In the type from the Berlin Museum the 
ochreous oblique band of the forewing is darker, browner than in other specimens. The much larger $ is purple 
brown, densely strewn with violettish white. — - phrynon Drc. (110 c), as Staudinger already presumed, is phmjnon. 
surely only an albinistic light ochreous <$ with a merely shadow-like ocellus, only the white centre being visible. 
From Panama, Honduras, and Colombia. 
A. tristis Bsdv. (= hagar Niep.) (110 b) forms the transition from orneates to the following falcata- tristis. 
group. Above sooty blackish-brown, anterior transverse line very indistinct, the posterior line from shortly 
before the apex to about 1 cm before the inner angle, dark yellow; discal spot large, shadow-like blackish. 
Hindwing similarly coloured as forewing, with an orange-ringed, white-centred black ocellus nearing the 
margin as in the janeira- group and being proximally flatly concave; subterminal line little visible, inwards 
feebly yellowish. The $ is still darker, the ocellus very slightly encircled with yellow. Sao Paulo; Novo Friburgo. 
A. hamata Sells. (= angulatus Conte, hippodice Mssn. i. 1., $ insolens Bouv.) also has a very falcately hamata. 
produced apex of the forewing; brown, the darker transverse lines at the inner margin very near together, the 
interior one below the median inwardly interrupted to the centre of the inner margin, the exterior one 
proceeding from a little more than % cm before the apex, where it is inwardly very intensely strewn with 
white; discal spot grey, finely surrounded with black. Hindwing orange brownish, ocellus and subterminal 
line as in bilinsata, also the yellow margins once more finely bordered with black, the iris very extensively 
reddish-brown. The $ has more normally shaped wings and is more violettish-brown. Costa Rica. Venezuela 
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