Publ. 26. X. 1929. 
AUTOMERIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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A. gavi Luc. (Ill B a) is very similar to the following griseoflava and perhaps no different species; above gayi. 
orange with a small red discal streak and a feeble postmedian line almost parallel to the margin, both being 
very inconspicuous. Hindwing exactly as in griseoflava, but the postmedian line is finer black and somewhat 
more undulate. In the figure by Boisduval the signatures of gayi and lucasii have been confounded, which 
mistake was also copied in Conte’s figures. Chile. 
A. griseoflava Phil. (Ill B a). Forewing greyish-yellow, discal dot red and double, the fine red post- griseoflava. 
median line inwards slightly convex, the transverse lines nearer together than in erytliraea. Hindwing orange 
with a red, white-centred and black-ringed ocellus, a greyish-black postmedian line which is bent inward towards 
the costal margin and is fused with the interior edge of the ocellns, passing over into the broader grey antemedian 
line which extends towards the inner margin. Beneath the hindwing shows a white dot with a red 
ring. The $ is more greyish-brown with a slight pink shade, the distal area of the hindwing is often intensely 
blackened, like the basal and marginal areas of the forewing. acharon Btlr. is very similar, the d forewing acharon. 
greenish-grey with a very feeble reddish tint, with an orange costal margin and fringe, the blackish lines nearer 
together than in erythrea, the carmine spots at the cell-end similar. The $ is less greenish, more reddish, hindwing 
pink, the two distal thirds blackened, the postmedian line farther from the distal margin than in erythrea. 
debills Btlr. is more yellow than typical oT more sulphur-coloured, the base of the hindwing and the fringe debilis. 
saffron-coloured, the carmine spots of the forewing very small, the antemedian line less irregular. Chile. 
Entirely carmine specimens suffused with blackish without any transverse lines are: izquierdoi /. n. All these izquierdoi. 
forms were bred by V. Izquierdo from one and the same laying of eggs. — There are also specimens in which 
the basal and marginal areas are suffused with red. contulma /. n. (Ill B b). Type 1 $ from Contulmo in contulma. 
the Berlin Museum. Larva above sepia-brown, beneath light greenish with 2 light yellow dorsal and subdorsal 
lines, with 2 orange undulate lines above and below the spiracles and 6 yellow stings with black tips on each 
segment. It lives on Puya coarctata, artichokes, and roses. 
A. erythrea Phil. (Ill B a). Forewing of above cinnamon-reddish with an olive tint, somewhat undulate erythrea. 
carmine transverse lines, often scaled black on the inverted sides, and with a small red discal spot; basal area 
and distal margin often suffused with red. Hindwing bright orange, ocellus and lines as in the preceding species, 
but the lines are broader and deeper black. The $ is carmine brown, otherwise marked the same, the postmedian 
line terminates towards the costal margin almost into the apex, the hindwing is more or less tinted yellow 
in the disc. Chile. - olivacea Btlr. (ill B a) differs in the more intense olive tint of the forewing and a broader olivacea 
orange area of the hindwing and the blackened distal margins of these wings. Larva sepia-brown with 4 white 
longitudinal lines interrupted in the centre of the segments, and a dark yellow undulate suprastigmatal line 
and another one below it. Ventrum somewhat lighter and more greenish with 6 large and 2 smaller yellow 
stings on each segment. It lives on Fagus pumilio. 
A. lucasii Bsdv. is very similar to erythrea, perhaps somewhat smaller, the anterior transverse line lucasii. 
broader red, the posterior one almost straight from the apex to the distal third of the inner margin, distinctly 
black, and between the veins slightly undulate inwards; behind it the whole marginal area is purple red. Hind¬ 
wing as in the preceding species, but in the marginal area broadly suffused with purple red. Chile. Probably 
also only a form of erythrea. 
A. microphthalma Izquierdo ( 111 B b) is much lighter yellow with a loam-coloured shade, the apex of micro phth al¬ 
ike forewing very pointed, the anterior transverse line is absent, the posterior line is grey beginning at the ma ■ 
costal margin 2 mm before the apex, with 2 grey discal dots. Hindwing in the disc somewhat more reddish 
yellow, with a very small black white-centred ocellus without any red, the feeble lines similarly shaped as in the 
preceding species, reddish-grey. $ more ochreous, strewn with a somewhat darker colour, the lines more 
reddish-brown. Chile. 
Subordinate group: Hyperchiria Hbn. (Forewing angular below the apex; eyes red.) 
A. incisa Wlcr. (= orodes Bsdv.) (Ill B b). Forewing loam-coloured to reddish-brown, with 2 fine incisa. 
brown transverse lines, a feebler median shadow between them, before which there is a fine discal streak: 
marginal area more or less smoked like the interior border of the subterminal line. Hindwing yellow or reddish- 
yellow with a large red, white-centred and black-edged ocellus and 2 broad blackish bands behind it, with a 
very feeble antemedian line. Abdomen orange, with black bands. Brazil, common. 
A. orodina Schs. (Ill Be) is extraordinarily similar to incisa, somewhat smaller, with an almost orodina. 
straight distal margin with a hardly noticeable angle; fore wing lighter greenish-yellow, with very fine transverse 
lines. Hindwing of a purer lemon-colour. The $ is much browner. From Rio Grande do Sul to Paraguay. The 
thick cylindrical larva is light bluish-green, with very dense spiny hair, with dark pink ring-indentations. It 
lives on Sapintacia spec. 
A. naitsica Cr. (Ill B c). Forewing brown, behind the postmedian line olive greenish-yellow with 2 very nausica. 
oblicpie blackish transverse lines, a less distinct median and subterminal shadow and a black discal spot situate 
in a greenish halo. Hindwing bluish-grey with an orange, white-centred and black-ringed ocellus, in the costal- 
marginal third brownish, with 2 broad black undulate transverse bands the interior one of which mostly unites 
with an antemedian one at the inner margin. Abdomen orange, with black bands. The $ is much browner. 
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