Hampson, 1920, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 2: 160, pl. 46, f. 20 

1279a.   Automolis  carinosa.     (Plate  XL VI.  fig.  20.) Automolis  carinosa,  Schaus,  Pr.  U.S.  Nat.  Mns.  xxix.  p.  215  (1905).

Male.  Head  and  front  of  thorax  white,  the  latter  with  some  crimson irroration  ;  palpi  above,  a  bar  across  frons,  and  antenna1  brown  ; the  rest  of  thorax  fulvous  yellow  with  slight  fuscous  marks  on ineso-  and  metathorax  on  which  there  is  a  white  patch;  pectus white  with  some  crimson  below  the  shoulders  ;  legs  white  banded with  black;  abdomen  crimson  with  dorsal  series  of  white  points,  the anal  tuft  and  ventral  surface  white.  Fore  wing  pale  yellow,  some crimson  at  base  of  inner  margin,  followed  by  an  oblique  purple- fuscous  hand  from  hase  of  costa  to  middle  of  inner  margin  inter- sected by  white  streaks  on  the  veins  ;  a  similar  postmedial  hand expanding  on  costa  and  inner  margin  and  defined  on  each  side  by white  ;  the  medial  area  with  some  white  on  costa  and  outer  edge of  antemedial  hand.  Hind  wing  semihyaline  white,  the  inner half  tinged  with  crimson,  more  deeply  towards  tornus.

Hab.  Bbazil,  Rio  Janeiro,  type  Male  in  U.S.  Nat.  Mus.  Exp. 38  millim