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A. tnimani Sm. is similar to rubifera (9 k), but distinguished by its more robust structure, more Irumani. 
rectangular wings with an obtuse apex, more yellowish hindwings with a broad dark marginal band and a 
yellowish band therein; besides characterized by the single anterior and posterior transverse lines. Ground-colour 
yellowish ferruginous brown or more greyish-brown, maculae distinctly lighter than the ground. Expanse 
of wings: 30 to 34 mm. South Dakota. 
A. plebeia Sm. (10 a) has a more dirty loam-coloured ground-colour strewn with blackish and inter- plebeia. 
rupted, indistinct markings which are, on the whole, arranged as in the preceding species; transverse lines 
double, maculae pupilled blackish, in light rings and surrounded with brown, the ring-macula elliptical; median 
shade faded; undulate line spotted yellowish, proximally bordered by small black spots. Hindwing brownish- 
grey, towards the base lighter. Canada to California. 
A. jucunda Whr. (= eriensis Grt.) (10 c). Forewing ochreous-yellowish grey, dusted with purple jucunda. 
reddish; transverse lines indistinctly double, the posterior line dentate with grey and black dots on the veins; 
maculae pupilled reddish, in grey rings, the lower half of the cell before and between them filled up with black. 
Hindwing yellowish-white, towards the margin brownish. In the form perconflua Grate the black colour in the perconflua. 
cell is absent. From Canada and the United States as far as New York. 
A. phyllophora Grt. (9 k) looks very much like jucunda (10 c), but it is easily discernible by much phyllopho- 
darker brownish-grey hindwings, the basal half not being lighter; the chestnut-red head and thorax distinctly 
contrasts with the forewing being dusted more reddish-grey; the dentate, double transverse lines are more 
pronounced, the cell between the maculae only somewhat darkened by the median shade running through 
between them. Canada to New York. —- f. hospitalis Grote is probably only a less reddish form with a distinct hospitalis. 
coniform macula. Described from New York. 
A. esurialis Grt. (10 d) has a much lighter, pinkish-brownish ground-colour and the cell before and esurialis. 
between the maculae darkened by a blackish brown, the posterior transverse line strongly dentate with dots 
on the veins behind it; the undulate line shows proximally at the costal margin a blackish-brown triangular 
spot, in the middle bordered by black dots. Hindwing light brownish pink. Washington. — Larva brown 
with black subdorsal longitudinal streaks and a darker lateral band; it lives polyphagous on low plants. 
A. femiica Tausch. (= intracta 1 Vkr.) (Vol. Ill, t. 10 g) has been described in Vol. Ill, p. 47. It fennica. 
has long, extended wings of a dark brownish grey, the proximal-marginal area lighter yellowish or reddish, 
with double dentate transverse lines, a long coniform macula, whitish upper maculae pupilled brown and an 
undulate subterminal line with black sagittae before it which become longer streaks behind the cell. Hindwing 
diaphanous brownish. Alaska, Canada, and United States as far as New York. The larva is on its brown ground 
watered with black, with 3 rows of small whitish subdorsal spots; it lives polyphagous on low plants. 
A. oblafa Morr. (= hilliana Harv.) (9 k) is a pretty species easily recognizable by the more grey oblata. 
basal and postmedian areas and the decidedly chestnut-brown median and marginal areas, the large maculae 
surrounded with a very deep black. Basal ray and median shade present. From Canada to Nevada and Cali¬ 
fornia. 
A. rosifunda Dyar is allied to oblata (9 k); forewing pinkish-brown, the broad marginal area uni- rosifunda. 
coloured; the antemedian line consists of 4 black bows with a straight line before it and a third segment below 
the cell; the postmedian transverse line is black dentate, proximally with a pinkish-brown doubling, distally 
bordered with whitish, behind it shaded with purple reddish, with a deeper red subapical spot; coniform macula 
distinct, ring-macula large, somewhat oblicpie, like the reniform macula which is proximally produced on the 
median, all the three in pinkish-brown rings and surrounded with black. Hindwing light yellowish-grey, at 
the distal margin tinted pink. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Mexico (Hidalgo). 
A. agis Dyar is allied to no other species, but it fits the best hereto. Head and thorax dark reddish- agis. 
brown, forewing ochreous-brown subbasally and in the marginal area, violettish-brown in the small basal area 
and in the discal area; transverse lines double, violettish-brown, slightly contrasting; the ring-macula is a large, 
narrow ring being above open, the reniform macula is very large, surrounded with black, in the lower end pupilled 
blackish; undulate line red-brown, finely dentate, proximally faded, at the costal margin dislocated. Hindwing 
brownish-grey with darker veins and loam-coloured yellowish fringes. Expanse of wings: 49 mm. Mexico 
(Zacualpan). 
A. flavolincta Sm. (10 b). Forewing light purple brown with a light yellowish costal-marginal area flavotincta. 
and black basal ray; transverse lines single, black, on the averted sides bordered with yellowish; maculae brown¬ 
ish, in lighter rings, the ring-macula obliquely elliptical, the space before and behind it black; undulate line 
yellowish, proximally dusted with blackish. Hindwing ochreous-brown with yellow fringes. British Columbia, 
Vancouver. 
