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We have nine species, readily recognisable : 



A. Colour creamy yellow. 



B. Central band broad, brown, usually broken. 



A. hadiana. 

 B'-. Central band narrow, red-brown, usually complete. 



A. cnicana. 

 A-. Colour rich orange with a black central band. 



A. ceneana. 

 A^. Colour orange-red with squared pale yellow spaces. 



A. tesserana. 



A^. Colour rich ochreous with a reddish, crossed, central 



band. A. maritimana. 



A:'. Colour greyish ochreous with slender red-brown stripe. 



A. -cphyrava. 

 A''. Colour reddish yellow. 



C. Marking chocolate very distinct and oblique. 



A. bauinannianii. 

 C'-. Markings pale chocolate, upright, not sharply defined. 



A. sulhaumannicma . 

 A'. Colour black-brown, with the base yellow. 



A. schrcibcrsiana. 



1 . A. badiana, Hb. ; rubigana, ]Iei7i. — Expanse, f to 

 I inch (15-19 mm.). Fore wings ovate, shining yellow, 

 central band broad, chocolate, usually broken and clubbed, 

 followed by sub-apical brown costal spot. 



AntennfB simple, yellow-brown ; palpi, head and thorax 

 pale yellow ; abdomen dark brown. Fore wings rather short 

 and broad, costa arched, apex bluntly rounded, hind mar- 

 gin but little oblique ; creamy yellow with numerous faint 

 olive-brown clouds ; central band represented by a large up- 

 right dark chocolate, clubbed, costal blotch, constricted in 

 the middle, and faced by a similar costal cloud ; beyond it 

 is a small costal spot of the same colour near the apex ; 

 cilia whitish-yellow. Hind wings with their cilia smoky 

 grey-black. Female similar, rather larger. 



