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narrow row of minute orange-yellow (varying to yellowish-grey) 

 scales ; surface of 2nd and 3rd segments, posterior half of 4th, hind 

 margins, and more or less of the clorsum of 5th, 6th, and 7th with 

 minute reddish-yellow depressed scales ; anterior half of 4th seg- 

 ment occupied by a transverse baud of whitish scales ; hind margins 

 towards the sides of 6tli and 7th segments with similarly coloured 

 scales. Whole surface of abdomen with fine long black pubescence, 

 there being apparently no row of bristles on hind margins of any 

 of the segments ; sides of 1st, anterior lialf of 2nd, and all the 

 4th with white scaly pubescence ; hind half of 2nd and all the 

 3rd, 5th, and 6th with black scaly pubescence. Venter rather light 



frey, with minute yellow scale-like depressed hairs and long tine 

 lack pubescence, with longer more bristly black hairs towards 

 tip; genitalia blackish, tip brown. Legs dark brown: fore coxae 

 with a few fine yellow hairs, hind pair with black hairs : femora 

 with minute depressed yellowish-white scales ; tibise with similar 

 but apparently less numerous scales ; some fine black hairs on 

 underside of femora ; femora and tibiae with the usual rows of 

 bristles ; tarsi blackish. Wings very pale grey, with a broad 

 deep brown baso-costal band occupying about half the surface ; 

 the colour extending along all the costa to tip of upper branch 

 of 3rd vein ; posteriorly the colour filling axillary and anal cells 

 except their tips, nearly half the 4th posterior cell, less than a 

 third of the 3rd posterior cell, and basal half of discal cell ; a 

 downward extension (blob) stretching across the 1st posterior cell 

 and filling half of the 2nd posterior cell, the colour limited by 

 the outer side of the discal cell ; the colour also fills the basal 

 half of the 1st submarginal cell and the whole of the marginal 

 cell, except a small space in a line with the proximal limit of the 

 clear half of the marginal cell ; a small oval sub-hyaline spot in 

 upper corner of 1st basal cell, with a narrow longitudinal (not 

 transverse, as I erroneously noted in my first description of the 

 species) streak above it.* 



Length, 7-11 mm. 



Described from three J rf and three $ $ in the Indian Museum, 

 Kufri to Phagu, 18. v. 1916 ; Phagn, Simla Distr., 9000 ft,, 

 12. v. 1909, type rf ; Simla, 7000 ft,, 16. v. 1909, type $ (both 

 Annandale) ; two rf <5 , Naini Tal, v-vi. 1893 (Lucknow Museum ); 

 two $ $ , Simla, 16. v. 1909 and 9. v. 1910, on the flowers of the 

 white stonecrop (Annandale) ; Khasi Hills, Assam (Brit. Mus.). 



This species is very close to A. maura, L., of Europe, and was 

 referred to under that name in my first paper on this family (I. c.). 

 I have already detailed the differences between the two species 

 (llec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 222). 



* A more rough-and-ready description of the wing would be: antero- 

 proxiuial half dark brown, tlie colour cutting the 4th posterior and discal 

 cells about their middles ; a large blob from the dark part at two-thirds the 

 wing-length reaching nearly to the hind margin, a similar smaller blob falling 

 the curve in the 2nd longitudinal vein, and a minute 3rd blob between the 

 2ud one and tip of upper branch of 3rd longitudinal vein. 



