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AUTOMERIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
sahnonea. 
roseus. 
arminia. 
latus. 
cruenta. 
praecruenta. 
convergens. 
semirosea. 
rubicunda. 
margin. The larger 9 shows a distinctly brown-belted abdomen. South-Eastern Peru, Ecuador and 
Bolivia. 
A. salmonea Cr. By this name Cramer figures two very different females which surely belong to 
different species. I have seen nothing similar to the figure 162 A, unless it be identified with porus. Forewing 
deep purple red-brown, without a distinct anterior transverse line, the posterior line black, ending about 8 mm 
before the apex, the discal spot surrounded by yellowish atoms and parted by the yellowish-dusted cross-vein. 
Hindwing red, the black ocellus surrounded by yellow, with a yellowish-grey horsehoe-shaped iris enclosing 
a black crescentiform pupil with a white angular streak; the black undulate line and the reddish-brown band 
behind it as in the other species of this group. Abdomen red, with dark carmine-brown bands. The figure 
supplied by Conte as the J of salmonea (Essai t. XII, fig. 3) does not fit at all the above mentioned 
figure by Cramer, and I should much rather place it as $ to the following species which I consider to be 
roseus Conte. 
A. roseus Conte (= salmonea Cr. pro parte, arminirene Strd.) (Ill e). The figure in Cramer 395 A 
represents a much lighter, more olive-brown species with a light brownish median area, the anterior transverse 
line is almost straight, very feebly S-curved, inwards broadly light yellowish, like the margin of the discal 
spot which terminates outside with 3 black-dotted points; the posterior transverse line meeting the anterior 
one at the inner margin is inside bordered with whitish, outside of it a somewhat darker subterminal band. 
Hindwing hued with pink, the ocellus similar to that of salmonea, but much more narrowly surrounded with 
yellowish-white, marginal area very light. Surinam. It may be erubescens Bsdv. This might be ascertained 
by comparing it with the type in the Paris Museum. Moreover, the species is variable and occurs in a more 
olive grey and a more red-brown form. 
A. arminia Stoll. ( = hersilia Bsdv.) resembles the above mentioned figure of salmonea, being just as 
dark carmine-brown, the black postmedian line marked on the veins by white scales, the discal spot entirely 
absent, the antemedian line marked at the inner margin by a small spot of yellowish scales. On the rosy-red 
hindwing the large ocellus is transversely oval, broadly surrounded by yellow, the very extensive iris brown, with 
a small white-strewn, black pupil enclosing a short white angular bar. Likewise from Surinam. It is difficult 
to ascertain from the figure whether this species really belongs hereto. 
A. Iatus Conte (= sinuosa Dogn., brutus Strd., caesar Bouv.) (Ill c). Forewing of $ red-brown, yellowish- 
brown or olive-grey to lilac-grey, in the 9 predominantly olive or lilac brown, the lines olive brown, forewing 
basally and at the costal margin somewhat darker; lines fine, posterior line between apex and the centre of 
the inner margin regular and very deeply undulate-dentate, discal spot rectangular with black dots around it. 
Hindwing lighter, only apically somewhat darker, with a very large ocellus surrounded by yellow and white, 
in the centre with a grey horseshoe-shapecl spot finely extended into fine points on the veins and with a white 
angular line; behind the undulate-dentate subterminal line with a very broad brownish-red, in the 9 olive 
band. A most variable species from Guiana, Amazons, Peru, Bolivia. 
A. cruenta Wkr. (Ill A b). Forewing greyish-brown, the lower half of the basal area dark brown, 
bordered above by the lighter median vein, outside by an almost straight whitish transverse line, the posterior 
line pointedly broken below the costal margin, outside bordered by a darker shade, between both a blackish- 
brown discal spot; behind the subterminal line receding far between 3 and 5 the margin is darker; at the costal 
margin before the apex with a dark trapezoid spot. Hindwing very light greyish-brown, basally pink, ocellus 
and transverse lines as in the allies. Abdomen blackish with reddish-yellow segmental indentations. Brazil. 
praecruenta Weym. <T W. was not before me; according to the figure it is very similar, darker, with more 
distinct and broader yellowish-white median and subcostal veins, the margin of the discal spot, as well as the 
postmedian and subterminal lines broader, too. Hindwing in the disc lighter, yellowish-white, the subterminal 
band much broader and darker. Abdomen with rosy-red bands. Rio de Janeiro. Hardly a different species. 
A. convergens Wkr. (Ill A b) is very similar to the two preceding species, forewing duller and more 
blurred, more reddish-brown, the light transverse lines very straight, at the inner margin almost contiguous, 
the discal spot very long and narrow, little darker than the ground. Hindwing more extensively rosy red, the 
black ocellus narrowly surrounded by yellowish-white. Abdomen curled ochreous. Brazil. — semirosea Weym. 
(Ill A b) the type of which is before me seems to me to be merely a somewhat crippled convergens with narrow 
wings, with a more falcate apex; the marking in the much flown specimen likewise the same, only the posterior 
transverse line a little more curved, towards the margin deeper concave. South Brazil. 
A. rubicunda Schs. (Ill A b). Forewing above brown, in the basal area more reddish-yellow, bordered 
by a very fine dark transverse line; behind the cell an undulate-dentate transverse line, the oblong discal spot 
dark brown; at the costal margin near the apex a dark triangular spot. Hindwing above bright red with a 
small black ocellus with a brownish iris strewn with white in the centre; behind it a black transverse line and 
a brownish submarginal band, then a brownish marginal shadow in a lighter ground. Beneath the forewing 
