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of the wing, but iu the female of ordinary proportions ; hind 

 wings ample, but without the cross-bar or vein 5. Sexes not 

 alike. 



We have only one species. 



1. A. sociella, Z.;colonella,Z. — Expanse IJto Ifinch. 

 Male, fore wings broad but contracted behind, hoary brown 

 toward the base, tawny and then olive-brown toward the 

 apex ; first and second lines oblique, cloudy, red-brown and 

 black-brown; hind wings dusky white. Female, fore wings 

 broader, not contracted, reddish-brown with olive marginal 

 clouding and a black discal spot ; hind wings smoky brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, whitish-brown, with a 

 cylindrical white tuft at the base ; palpi short, thick, brown- 

 ish-white, almost concealed beneath a thick roof of white 

 head-scales ; thorax also white, abdomen pale brown. Fore 

 wings rather elongated but broad and blunt; the nervures 

 at the base of the costa thickened or raised into small 

 swellings, and the discal cell so magnified as to occupy great 

 part of the wing; costa arched ; apex very bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin rather contracted and a little oblique ; white at 

 the base, shading througli whitish drab, and pale and darker 

 purplish-red or olive-red, to olive-green toward the costa, 

 apex, and hind margin ; first line a series of three purple 

 loops or long angles placed rather obliquely ; second line 

 very far back, angulated toward the hind margin and bending 

 back to the costa — a mere purple thread, rather toothed 

 near the anal angle — along the costa, in the middle portion, 

 is a black line, and this is faintly and partially continued in 

 the subcostal nervure to the base of the wing, hind margin 

 edged with short black streaks; whole surface silky, or 

 almost greasy-looking; cilia dull purplish-olive. Hind wings 

 broad, the apex rather jaroduced and the hind margin, below 

 it indented, smoky brownish-white. Female larger, the 

 fore wings broader, rather longer, devoid of the swelling at 

 the base and the contraction behind; colour pale olive-brown. 



