This specimen appears to be intermediate between O. rosenbergi (no orange on FW costa) and O. ataenia (the orange band is broader extends all the way to the margin). 






Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 2: 158

1275  5.  Automolis  rosenbergi. AutomoUs  rosenbergi,  Roths.  Nov.  Zool.  xvi.  p.  47.  pi.  0.  f.  35  (1909).


Female  .  Head  and  thorax  dark  brown,  the  sides  of  head,  tegulae,  and patagia  with  broad  yellow  stripes  ;  palpi  with  tin-  basal  joint  white in  front  ;  frons  with  metallic  blue  spot;  pectus  with  yellow  streaks below  the  shoulders  ;  fore  coxae  with  yellow  spot  in  front  and metallic  blue  spoi  at  side-:  fore  femora,  tibia?,  and  tarsi  ami  mid femora  streaked  with  yellowish ;  abdomen  black-brown  with  metallic blue  dorsal  sputs  on  medial  segments,  a  lateral  series       of  blue  spots and  yellow  lateral  bands  on  1st  three  segments,  the  ventral  surface with  paired  yellow  spots  on  1st  five  segments,  narrowing  into  bars behind,  fore  wing  dark  brown  with  an  oblique  yellow  fascia  from just  above  inner  margin  near  base  to  vein  5 beyond  the  cell,  then benl  outwards  below  vein  6  to  near  termen.  Hind  wing  dark brown  with  a  yellow  fascia  just  below  costa  from  near  base  to  near apex,  its  lower  edge  curved  and  extending  to  just  below  the  cell.


Hab.  Venezuela,  Tachira;  W.  Ecuador,  Paramba  (Rosen- berg), typet  2  in  Coll.  Llothschild,  Hacienda  Ave  Maria.  Exp. 14  millim.




Rothschild, 1909; Novit. Zool. 16 (1): 47, (2): pl. 6, f. 35;

98. Automolis rosenbergi spec. nov. (PI. VI. fig. 3.5).
Male, Female: Very similar to A. collateralis (=ataenia), but no yellow on costa and the central longitudinal band of forewing much narrower and curved downwards near apex and it does not reach outer margin.


Hab. Paramba, Ecuador, 3000 ft., March 1897 (W. F.Rosenberg); Hacienda Ave Maria, West Ecuador (Bnchwald) ; Tachira, Venezuela (Briceno).



1286a   Automolis  ataenia.
Automolis  ataenia,  Schaus,  A.M.  N.  II.  (8)  vi.  p.  199  (1910).

Head  Orange  ;  palpi  except  at  base,  antenna',  and  spots  on  frons and  vertex  of  bead  black  ;  thorax  black,  the  tegulae  and  patagia orange  edged  with  black,  the  molal  liorax  with  metallic  bine  patch; pectus  with  orange  lateral  stripes,  the  fore coxae  with  orange patches,  the  Eemora  and  tibiae  with  whitish  streaks;  abdomen black  with  dorsal  metallic  bine  spots  on  terminal  segments  and lateral  and  sublateral  series,  the  2nd  and  3rd  segments  with lateral  orange  spots,  the  ventral  surface  with  orange  bands  except towards  extremity.  Fore  wing  black,  the  costal  edge  orange  to beyond  middle;  an  oblique  orange  fascia  from  inner  margin  near base  to  vein  <>  beyond  middle,  then  Kent  outwards  to  termen ;  cilia greyish  in  malt'.  Hind  wing  black  with  the  costal  area  broadly orange  extending  to  below  the  cell;  the  underside  with  subcostal black  streak  ending  on  costa  beyond  middle.

Hab. Costa   Rica,  Tuis  (Schaus), M.  42mm,  F.  48mm.