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AUTOMEPvIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
columbiana. to the Amazons (before me from Pebas, e coll. Stgr.). — Columbiana f.n. is larger, much brighter yellowish 
red-brown, the median area slightly tinted violet, the transverse lines very distinct, the discal spot much 
larger, slate-coloured black, outside and inside notchedly surrounded with dark brown. Hindwing bright orange- 
red, turning rosy-red at the costal margin, the marginal area also coloured like that. Western Colombia (Bella 
panamensis. Vista). Type in the Coll. Niepelt. - panamensis /. n., the form from Panama, on the contrary is somewhat 
smaller, of a duller colouring, the hindwing not orange but light brown, the black ring of the ocellus of double 
width. Type in the Coll. B.-Haas. 
falcata. A. falcata Bsdv. (Ill b). Wings elongate with a far produced pointed apex, dull brownish-grey with 
a lilac tint, transverse lines yellowish, on the averted sides darker brown, the exterior line from 8 mm before 
the apex, terminating at the inner margin 5 mm behind the interior line; discal spot oval, darker greyish-brown, 
finely surrounded with yellowish. Hindwing greyish claret-coloured, ocellus black with single white scales 
and a short white angular streak, with a dark yellow ring, subterminal line very undulate, outside of it a very 
indistinct red-brown undulate narrow band. Cayenne. 
norcestes. A. norcestes B.sdv. ( = maasseni Mschlr.) (110 c) looks almost exactly like falcata, but the ocellus is 
smaller with a distinct red iris and a more intensely white-strewn pupil, and a broader orange ring. The larger 
$ has normally shaped wings and is thinly scaled, with darker brown veins, the two greyish-white transverse 
lines almost or quite contiguous at the inner margin. Guiana. Amazons. 
janeira. A. janeira Westiv. (= fumata Bsdv.) (110 c) is extraordinarily similar to the following cinerea-, shape 
of wings somewhat higher; besides distinguished by the redder disc of the hindwing, the red not yellow ring 
around the ocellus with a more extensively red iris and a reduced black ring; the small pupil is more intensely 
strewn with white; the whole hindwing is shorter and rounder. Brazil; Colombia? 
cinerea. A. cinerea Wkr. (110 d) is a well-known species, the with a very falcate apex of the forewing, deep 
chestnut, the posterior transverse line in its lower portion yellowish. Hindwing coloured the same, with a red 
ocellus with a broad black, then narrow yellow ring. The $ is more greyish-brown, in the marginal area lighter, 
with fine darker veins, a conspicuous oval discal spot surrounded by greyish white, and yellow transverse lines 
being dark brown on the averted sides. Brazil. 
accuminata. A. accuminata M. &. W (110 d). By the narrow yellowish-grey, black-dotted forewing with 2 yellowish 
subterminal lines from the apex, and the lemon-coloured hindwing the species is easily discernible and un¬ 
mistakable; the black ocellus with a white-strewn iris and a wdiite central crescent is somewhat oval, behind 
it a black line and a somewhat broader, greyer one in the brown marginal area. Brazil. 
fusca. A. fusca Wkr. ( = $ combusta Wkr.) (Til a) is very similar to the following saturata, but it has only 
a narrow yellow ring round the ocellus of the hindwing. The $ is deep red-brown, the $ more greyish-brown, 
as in cinerea. Specifically hardly separable from saturata. South America? From Balzapamba (Ecuador). 
saturata. A. saturata Wkr. (= schausi Edw.) (110 d). Forewing reel-brown with a darker oval discal macula 
narrowly surrounded with yellowish, and two darker, inwardly yellowish transverse lines strongly convergent 
towards the inner margin. Hindwing of a bright chrome colour, basally, at the costal and inner margins black- 
haired, with a broadly black-edged red ocellus and an oblong black pupil which is incompletely surrounded 
with white, behind it an undulate black line, then an interrupted brownish-red shadow-line in the brownish 
marginal area. Mexico (Jalapa). 
nycthnene. A. nyctimene Latr. (= damoeus Bsdv.) (110 e) is a large species with a most variable ground-colour. 
greyish-brown, dark red-brown, light rusty brown, with 2 darker transverse lines nearing each other at the inner 
margin and being more or less bordered with reddish yellow on the inverted sides, between them an oval, dark 
discal macula with a yellowish ring and often also a light pupil; veins, especially distinct in the $, in the 
marginal area lighter yellowish. Hindwing greyish-black with a very large Pompeyan red ocellus in a black 
ring and surrounded by yellow, the oblong black pupil parted near the proximal end by a blue-white transverse 
bar, incompletely surrounded by white strewing and on each side flanked by a small oblong, white-dusted 
guttiform spot; postmedian line black, undulate, behind it a broad brownish-red interrupted shadowy band. 
leucanc. marginal area coloured as forewing. Brazil, Colombia. — leucane Hbn. (110 e) is the northern form, somewhat 
smaller, of a duller colouring, the postmedian oblique line straighter, arising nearer at the apex; on the hindwing 
the ocellus is smaller, the iris duller red, the yellow ring narrower and lighter. Mexico. Larva coal-black -with 
light yellow tufts of stings. It lives on “Troena” ( ?). 
acutissima. A. acutissima Wkr. (Til a) is surely different from nycthnene, smaller, in the with much narrower 
wings, the apex being long falcate; especially the $ is more thinly scaled, with more distinct light veins; on 
the hindwing the ocellus is larger on an average and, especially in the J, removed nearer to the margin, similarly 
as in the cinerea- group, the iris of the ocellus much darker brownish-red, only around the pupil lighter yellowish. 
It flies beside leucane in Mexico. 
