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A. tharossa Druce (= excavaria S chaus ) (14 i). The <$ is easy to recognize by its shape and venation: tharossa. 
cell broad, areole wanting, 1st subcostal longer-stalked than usual, 1st and 2nd radial abnormally curved 
backward (somewhat as in the Indo-Australian section Mesotrophe) ; even the $ is somewhat stumpy-winged, 
the distal margin, even though not actually excavated, straightened in its anterior part. Palpus with 3rd joint 
in both sexes long. Hindtibia of dilated, with long femoro-tibial pencil. White spots on abdomen strong. 
Distributed from Costa Rica to Buenos Aires, not yet found separable into races; tharossa came from Chiriqui, 
excavaria from Sao Paulo and Castro. 
A. bizaria E. D. Jones (14g). Near tharossa in shape and in its contorted venation but conspicuously bizaria. 
distinct in its firm, straightish lines. The hindleg of the has a long pencil from the femoro-tibial joint. The 
1st median of the hindwing arises somewhat less near the 3rd radial than is normal in the group. Alto da Serra, 
Santos. 
A. flavipuncta Warr. (14 i) introduces the “ nebuligera group’", which has already been mentioned above flavipuncia. 
(see spissata, p. 102) and which is very homogeneous in the shape, pattern, long palpus, venation (areole well 
developed, 5th subcostal from its apex or little beyond), generally the strongly tufted $ hindtibia, and other 
characters. Of flavipuncta , founded on a $ from Rockstone, British Guiana, I know very few examples (San 
Esteban and Rio Potaro), more weakly marked than Warren’s type. The only B (San Esteban) has the hind¬ 
tibia short, tufted, with only one (short) spur discoverable. Named from the oval, deep yellow, finely black- 
ringed cell-spot of the hindwing. 
A. suspiciens Proxct (14 i), taken at Fonteboa and S. Antonio do Javary together with spadix, is on suspiciens. 
an average smaller than that species; the termen of the forewing is slightly less oblique and slightly more crenu- 
late. Entire coloration paler, cell-mark of forewing with a dark anterior dot, subterminal shade less developed, 
less angled, marked with a pair of dark spots between the radials; cell-dot. of hindwing with a less fine black 
circumscription. I have not found any proximal spur on the hindtibia. 
A. nebuligera Btlr. (= coxaria Btlr., nec Guen.) (14 i). The type form is easy to recognize by the cloud- nebuligera. 
ing from which it received its name, but this is inconstant. Better distinctions from suspiciens are the rhombi- 
form ochreous cell-spot of the hindwing, the less angled (or non-angled) postmedian on both wings and 
the slightly squarer apex of the forewing. The type 3 is labelled “S. bank of Rio Negro, 16 June 1874’" and 
it was only by an unfortunate lapse that Butler published it as ‘"Rio Napo”; one of the two $$ which he 
misidentified as coxaria was collected with it on the same day and is evidently an aberration of nebxdigera or 
perhaps of suspiciens. Also known from other Amazon localities and French Guiana. 
A. nodigera Btlr. (14 i) differs from nebuligera in the large and very characteristically shaped, silver- nodigera. 
white cell-spot of the hindwing. Median shade of forewing thick, little bent; postmedian of forewing generally 
diffused proximally, of hindwing irregular. Discovered, like the preceding, by Prof. Traill on the Amazon, but 
widely distributed: Panama to Peru, Venezuela, Guiana, Matto Grosso. 
E. Hindtibia o f with 2 spurs. Forewing with 1st a n cl 2nd radial stalked 
or very closely approximated at origin. 
A. coxaria Guen. (14 g). Palpus with 3rd joint in the $ moderately long. Midfemur of $ fringed, hind- coxaria. 
femur with very long and dense hair. Forewing with areole very small or wanting. In markings much like 
jonaria; paler, the ante- and postmedian dots smaller. The type q , from Cayenne, is decidedly larger than 
the generality of specimens (especially of the <$<$)', other known localities are Mexico ($, Schaus det.), the 
Lower Amazon and Castro (a form with white abdominal spots strong). 
F. Hindtibia o f B with one spur. 
A. insigniata Warr. (14 k). Unforeseen difficulties have been encountered in the working out of this insigniata. 
handsome species and its nearest relatives. The type, a slightly damaged £ from “British Guiana”, is not 
matched by any other known to me except an equally imperfect $ from Para, here figured. While it was sup¬ 
posed that we were dealing with a single variable species this was of small consequence, but now that it is 
certain that there are at least two, almost certainly more, the case is different. The only q from British Guiana 
(equally badly localized and apparently not from the same source) has the hindleg untufted, while the only 
Para $ (collected with the $ by the Rev. A. M. Moss and in most respects an excellent match to it, though 
almost as warmly coloured as germaini , infra, the palpus scarcely long enough for liosceles) is ab. liposema and 
has lost the hindlegs! Hence I cannot say definitely which of the following forms, if any, will belong to in¬ 
signiata and must leave it to the future to decide. — ab. liposema Dogn., founded on a d from Nouveau Chantier, liposema. 
French Guiana, “differs from the type by the cell-spot of the hindwing forming a very small silvery-white 
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