AUTOMERIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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is yellow with a large black, white-centred spot, hindwing reddish-brown, strewn with black, with a white 
discal dot and a brown lunar line behind it. The brown metathorax with long projecting white hairs, abdomen 
reddish. Expanse of wings: 54 mm. Petropolis (Brazil). 
A. flexuosa Fldr. (= $ mendosa Bsdv., bouvieri Conte) (111 Ac) is the of mendosa which is only known flexuosa. 
in the female. Forewing brown, in the basal area much lighter, reddish-grey, bordered by a fine black irregu¬ 
larly sinuate antemedian line; discal spot blackish, oblong; posterior transverse line towards the margin concave, 
undulate-dentate, the most intensely between 5 and 7, apically behind it a small dark triangular spot; fringe 
crossed by light on the ends of the veins. Hindwing rosy-red, at the margin light brownish, with a small, 
somewhat oblong ocellus, in the centre strewn with white, behind it a strong black line and then a brownish- 
red subterminal band. In the $ the forewing is whitish, strewn with yellowish-grey and black, the fine black 
transverse lines on the inverted sides bordered with whitish; the large brown discal spot surrounded by blackish, 
projecting outside in the middle; before the apex at the costal margin a brown triangular spot, behind the 
subterminal line the upper half of the margin is brownish, the lower half irregularly clouded whitish. Hindwing 
in the disc very pale pink, the fringe on the ends of the veins broad whitish. Rio de Janeiro to Argentina. 
A. superba Burm. is somewhat similar, smaller, with an obtuse apex, below it on 6 somewhat roundedly superba. 
produced. Forewing basally and at the margin more darkened, only the median area light, otherwise similarly 
marked. Hindwing as in flexuosa. Argentina; Bolivia. 
A. saturniata Wkr. (= caesa Bsdv.) (Ill Ac) is a large beautiful very characteristic species; forewing saturniata. 
on the whitish ground dusted and strewn with brown, the ground-colour being most distinct in the basal third 
of the costal margin, on the inverted sides of the transverse lines and in the subterminal line; transverse lines 
double, black, filled with ochreous, between them the large dark brown, four-pronged discal spot. Hindwing 
light brownish-grey, base and inner margin more or less rosy-red, behind the medium-sized ocellus with 3 
blackish-grey nebulous bands; fringe crossed by bright yellowish white. Abdomen ochreous, curled black. 
Colombia (Bogota). 
A. flexilineata Dogn. is allied to saturniata, easily separated by the strongly dentate posterior transverse flexilineata. 
line terminating into the apex; discal spot likewise quite similar; ground-colour more greenish-yellow, dusted 
with pinkish-black. Colombia (Paramo del Quindiu), described according to a 
A. aurora Maass. is light yellowish-brown on the forewing, finely strewn with black and coarsely with aurora.. 
red-brown, with 2 black curved transverse lines, the posterior one being slightly S-shaped and far remote from 
the margin, with a small black discal ring between them, and before the apex at the costal margin with a dark 
triangular spot, before which there are 2 small dark sagittiform spots marking the beginning of a subterminal 
line. Hindwing rosy-red with an oblong black ocellus being strewn with white in the centre, a black curved 
transverse line and a broader brownish band, behind which the marginal area is light brownish, with a darker 
marginal shadow. Abdomen pinkish-yellowish with small black triangular dorsal spots. Rio de Janeiro. 
A. montezuma Bsdv. (= crudelis Maass.) (Ill Ac). Forewing brown, in the basal area and behind montezuma. 
the postmedian line darker, with almost straight black transverse lines bordered lighter on the inverted sides, 
an oblong discal spot and median shadow behind it; subterminal line light, from the apex, in the lower half 
projecting somewhat towards the margin. Hindwing rosy-red with a black, white-dusted ocellus; behind the 
black postmedian line the margin is brown with a darker subterminal band and marginal shadow. Abdomen 
crimson with blackish rings. Common from Mexico. Specimens from Guatemala and Costa Rica are smaller, 
lighter brownish, finely strewn, the median shadow almost entirely absent, the posterior transverse line more 
distinct, straighter, rather concave towards the margin, and at the costal margin more apicacl: pallidior pallidior. 
f.n. (Ill A d); type in the Berlin Museum. 
A. rectilinea Bouv. (Ill A d) cannot be compared with any other species; body and forewing very light rectilinea. 
yellowish grey, strewn with brownish with 2 almost straight transverse lines of a brownish colour, on the 
inverted sides somewhat lighter owing to the absence of the strewing; at the cell-end a small narrow brownish 
spot; subterminal line absent. Hindwing brick-reddish, the large ocellus with an olive brown iris, with a velvety 
black ring and a large oval densely white-strewn pupil enclosing a thick white transverse bar; interior line 
blackish, somewhat undulate, the exterior line broader, brownish-red; fringe of hindwing red-brown. From 
Sao Paulo, in the Berlin Museum, another $ from Coll. Gschwandner, the type in the Paris Museum. 
A. iris Wkr. (Ill A d). Forewing reddish greyish-brown, finely strewn darker, with blackish transverse iris. 
lines, the anterior one angularly receding below the cell, the posterior one almost straight, inside generally 
narrowly lighter, outside feebly darkened, the discal spot hardly darkened, marked by black dots, with a dark 
median streak; subterminal line composed of small spots. Hindwing orange, at the inner margin red, with a 
middle-sized ocellus, the black postmedian line behind it occasionally feebly undulate. Abdomen reddish- 
ochreous. Mexico. — ferruginea f. n. (Ill Ad) is somewhat smaller and shows a rusty brown ground-colour, ferruginea 
the hindwing being deeper orange, too. According to 2 from Mexico City, type in the Coll. Draudt. — 
