. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. AUTOMOLIS. 47 h. Hind M'ing of male with vein 8 from the cell. a^. (Automolis). Hind wing of male with veins 6, 7 coincident. a^. Fore wing black-brown. a^. Fore wing with orange patches below end of and beyond the cell opposita. h'-^. Fore wing with curved orange fascia from near base to apex sphingidea. P. Fore wing white, with black-streaked brown costal fascia and patch on inner margin idalia. (:'-. Fore wing yellow, with crimson-edged fuscous markings juven
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. AUTOMOLIS. 47 h. Hind M'ing of male with vein 8 from the cell. a^. (Automolis). Hind wing of male with veins 6, 7 coincident. a^. Fore wing black-brown. a^. Fore wing with orange patches below end of and beyond the cell opposita. h'-^. Fore wing with curved orange fascia from near base to apex sphingidea. P. Fore wing white, with black-streaked brown costal fascia and patch on inner margin idalia. (:'-. Fore wing yellow, with crimson-edged fuscous markings juvenis. cl?. Fore wing orange irrorated with crimson and with a large hyaline patch traili. 1260. Automolis opposita. Kiichromia opposita, Wlk. i. 260 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 170. Euplesia ochropMla, Feld. Keis. Nov. pi. 102. f, 10 (1874). S . Head and thorax black-brown; palpi orange at base; orange spots above and below frons, at back of head, and on tegulae ; patagia and legs striped with orange; abdomen orange, the last three segments black with metallic blue bands, the ventral surface banded orange and black. Pore wing dark brown, the veins with fine pale streaks ; an oblique yellow patch from lower angle of cell to abo-ve vein 1 before middle ; an elliptical patch from costa beyond middle to above vein 2 near termen. Hind wing orange-yellow, with dark brown terminal band widest at tornus. Bah. Beazil, 1 (S type. Exj:). 34 millim. 1261. Automolis sphingidea. Glaucopis sphingidea, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. p. 158, pi. 31. f. 12 (1834) • Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 166. Euplesia vittigera, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 9 (1874). (S . Black-brown; tegulae and patagia with pale orange jDatches ; pectus with patches of me- tallic blue; mid and hind femora with whitish spots near extremity ; abdomen with three metallic blue rings on terminal segments ; lateral and sublateral series of blue spots ; ventral ¥\g. A^.—Automolis sphingidea, S' t- whitish spots on 2nd and 3rd segments. Por
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