Autochloris cuma (Druce, 1897)

Druce, H. (1897). Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from
Tropical America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 20: 299-307;
pp. 302-303. Original description as Gymnelia cuma.

Gymnelia cuma, sp. n.

Male. Primaries and secondaries hyaline, with the veins, outer and inner
margins black; the base of the primaries and a narrow line partly crossing
the wing black. The head, antennae, thorax, and upperside of the abdomen
deep black; four white spots at the base of the abdomen, the underside of
the abdomen bright carmine; legs black.

Expanse 1 3/4 inch.

Hab. Colombia, S. Martin, Lanos of Rio Meta (Child, Mus. Druce).

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the
British Museum, vol. 1, Syntomidae: p. 181, pl. 7, fig. 2. As Bombiliodes
cuma.

365. Bombiliodes cuma. (Plate VII. fig. 2.)

Gymnelia cuma, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xx. p. 302 (1897).

Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; vertex of head and tegulae with
blue spots; shoulders, pectus, and fore coxae with white spots; abdomen
with subdorsal white patches on first two segments, the posterior edged
with silvery blue; the terminal segments with lateral crimson bands, the
last four segments wholly crimson below; the ventral valve edged with
white; wings hyaline, the veins, and margins broadly, black. Fore wing
with the base black; a black bar across submedian interspace and another
on discocellulars; the terminal band expanding somewhat towards apex.
Hind wing with small discoidal spot; the terminal band dentate towards
tornus.

Female with the terminal segments of abdomen black below.

Hab. Colombia, S. Martin (Child), type male in Coll. Druce; Bolivia, Songo
(Garlepp), 1 female. Exp. male 42, female 56 millim.

Draudt, M. (1915). Syntomidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera
of the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 51, pl. 11 c.

A. cuma Druce (11 c) is particularly in the female one of the largest
species with a black body; vertex and collar spotted in a metallic blue.
Shoulders, thorax and forehips white-spotted. The lustrous blue abdomen
exhibits laterally large, triangular, scarlet spots, the last 4 rings are
beneath quite red. On the two first rings there are subdorsal white spots.
The hyaline wings are broadly margined with black, proximal margin and
median are connected by a black transverse band before the middle of the
cell. Colombia, Bolivia, Peru (Marcapata).