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an undulate black line with a broad chestnut-brown band behind it. Fringe light reddish ochreous. Expanse 
of wings: 95 mm. Joinville, Brazil. 
A. amphirene Bsdv. (= porifera Strd ., melanops Conte in tab.). Size and shape of brasiliensis ; hindwing 
greyish-red, basallv spotted white, in the median area lighter; with brown transverse lines, the posterior line 
inside on the veins dotted white, extending near to the apex. Discal spot hardly darker, with a three-pronged, 
black-dotted exterior edge, often containing a small white dot. Hindwing light reddish-brown with a large 
black, yellow ringed ocellus with the horseshoe-shaped greyish-yellow iris containing a white angular streak; 
behind it a strongly undulated black line with a red-brown band behind it. Abdomen greyish brown. Brazil. 
This species is probably merely an insignificant, somewhat larger form of hiibneri. The type of porifera, which 
was before me through the kindness of Dr. Horn, belongs to this species judging from the shape of the discal spot. 
A. irene Cr. ( = luteata Wkr .) (Ill cl). Forewing of varying between yellow and rusty reddish-brown, 
of $ darker, the anterior transverse line indistinct, almost straight and vertical to the inner margin, strewn 
with whitish, the posterior line brown, beginning a little before the apex, inwards dotted white on the veins. 
Hindwing reddish-brown, in the $ more rusty yellowish, the large ocellus narrowly surrounded by light 
yellowish, with a two-pronged yellowish-grey iris and a white angular streak. Guiana. Larva light grey with 
darker segmental indentations and branched green thorns, beginning from the 4th ring with a yellow lateral 
stripe which is bordered with dark red above. It lives on pomegranate trees. 
A. scapularis Bsdv. (Ill d) is very similar to irene and perhaps only its Brazilian form. Forewing still 
somewhat more pointed, ground-colour lighter, postmedian line yellowish, with hardly any white vein-dots, 
the discal spot with intense black dots. On the hindwing the ocellus is more broadly surrounded by yellow, 
the yellowish-grey iris three-pronged. Abdomen monotonously reddish greyish-brown. Common in Brazil. 
A. metea Stoll. (Ill d) has broader wings with less pointed apices, darker red-brown, in the $ more 
lilac greyish-brown, the antemedian line projecting distally twice sinuate in and below the cell, postmedian 
line more intensely dotted white, discal spot surrounded by more intense black dots. Hindwing lighter, redder, 
the iris smaller and narrower. Brazil. 
A. ophthalmica Moore I can identify neither from the description nor from Conte’s figure, but it belongs 
to this grouj}. Forewing dark red-brown, both the transverse stripes black, the anterior one indistinct, irre¬ 
gularly sinuately angled, the posterior one almost straight, from the apex; the large oval discal spot outside 
with a dent, bordered with black, the light subterminal line undulate-dentate. Hindwing of a brighter red- 
brown, base and margins light yellow, the very large black ocellus with a yellow ring, with a yellowish pupil 
being outside extended into 2 fine points and enclosing a white angular bar, behind it a black undulate line. 
Expanse of wings: 13 mm in the $. Brazil. Larva described to be black with long severely burning light brown 
thorns with black tips. It is said to live on an Iris near S. Paulo. 
A. antioquia Schs. Head and thorax cinnamon-brown, abdomen above pink, beneath yellow, forewing 
red-brown, strewn with yellow, with a white basal streak and a deep yellow antemedian line, distally scaled 
blackish with 3 white dots therein; discal spot dark brown, inside bordered by a straight yellow line, outside 
notched with 3 black dots; postmedian line from near the apex to the centre of the inner margin, outside red- 
brown, inside white with intense white vein-dots. Hindwing of a brilliant pink with a very large steel-grey 
ocellus being broadly encircled by black, then finely by yellow and white, pupil black, dusted white with a 
curved white line, above bordered by a brownish-yellow angular line; the black subterminal line is deeply 
undulate with a broad red-brown shadowy band behind it, the light pink marginal area with yellow veins, fringe 
yellow. Expanse of wings: 97 mm. According to a ^ from Colombia (Dept, of Antioquia), before me e Coll. 
Niepelt from Bella vista (Western Colombia). 
A. fimbridentata Dogn. (Ill e) resembles hiibneri in the main characters and is easily discernible by 
the dentate and somewhat speckled fringe. Forewing brown, strewn with red-brown, the transverse stripes 
are dotted white on the veins, and on the inverted sides somewhat white, subterminally with a series of small 
dentate nebulous spots. Hindwing pinkish claret-coloured, at the costal margin brown, towards the margin 
very light pink, the ocellus, as in all the species of this group, with a yellowish iris extended into 2 points. In 
the $ the margin is still more deeply dentate, apex of forewing more produced, hindwing browner. Peru. 
A. grammivora Jones (111 e). Forewing ochreous or light reddish-brown with a very characteristic 
yellow or yellowish-white postmedian line from the apex almost to the base of the inner margin, where it meets 
the indistinct antemedian line; discal spot entirely absent or marked by some dark dots. Hindwing pink with a 
large jet-black, yellow-ringed ocellus, a yellowish-grey iris with 3 or 4 fine points and a white crescentiform 
pupil; the undulate-dentate subterminal line is scaled deep blue, behind it ared-brown band. Brazil (Castro, 
Parana; Rio Grande do Sul). 
A. grammodes Jord. (= unifasciatus Bouv.) (Ill e). Forewing narrow, ochreous, scantily strewn with 
dark; discal spot with a white pupil; from the pointed apex a black oblique line extends straight to 2 / 5 of the 
inner margin, it is inwards bordered with yellow. Hindwing orange oclmeous, towards the margin with a feeble 
pink tint, with a black, white-centred ocellus and a black line behind it, bending strongly basad at the inner 
amphirene. 
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scapularis. 
metea. 
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