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Sect. A. <$ antenna doubly combed, towards the apex dentate. 
A. foyi Dogn. (36 1). An easily recognizable, large species. Head, collar and anterior half of the thorax foyi. 
metallic green, thorax posteriorly silvery white; palpi orange with a black terminal joint; chest, legs and abdomen 
orange; anterior tibiae and tarsi striped green. Forewing silvery white with an orange-yellow costa and a fine 
blackish green stripe on the inner-marginal vein; hindwings dull white. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. Ecuador. 
A. argentifera Wkr. (37 a) is quite silvery white with orange palpi, legs and antennae, the palpal argenlifera. 
terminal joint and forehead being black. Collar blackish, abdomen above tinted ochreous-yellowish; in the 
S the costa of the forewing is orange and a dark spot at the proximal margin, both being absent in the $. 
Expanse of wings: 46 to 52 mm. Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil. 
A. marcata Schs. (37a) resembles argentifera, though it is smaller; thorax darker; shoulder-covers marcata. 
with an orange spot. Abdomen orange, only above in the middle white. The dark inner-marginal spot of the 
forewing is in the basal half divided by a white longitudinal stripe. In the $ the abdomen is almost white and 
above the dark inner-marginal spot there is an orange stripe. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Brazil to Peru. 
A. fusciceps Hmps. (37 a). Head and collar blackish-brown, thorax white, antennae reddish-yellow; fusciceps. 
abdomen white, with a brownish hue; palpi and the whole underside, inclusive of the legs, orange, anterior 
tibiae and tarsi anteriorly brown. Forewings white, at the proximal margin light brown with an orange proximal 
margin. Hindwings white, with a faint yellowish hue. The 9 differs by its white head and collar, the latter 
showing only one dark median spot. Forewings all white, also the costal margin, only the inner-marginal vein 
is somewhat brownish. Expanse of wings: <$ 40 mm, $ 44 mm. Colombia, Peru. 
A. fulvithorax Hmps. (37 b). Head white, with orange-yellow antennae and a blackish-brown streak fulvithorax. 
between them; palpi, collar, and shoulder-covers orange. Thorax white, anteriorly brownish; legs and abdomen 
orange. Forewing silvery white, with an orange costal margin. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Colombia. 
A. subochrea Dogn. (37 a) differs from the preceding by its orange-yellow head, with a brown vertex subochrea. 
and entirely white thorax; the abdomen is above lighter yellowish. Wings like in the preceding. Expanse 
of wings: 46 mm. Colombia. 
A. nitidalis Maass. (= nochiza Hmps. p. part.) (37 b) is somewhat smaller than nochiza; only the nitidalis. 
head and collar are blackish-brown, the thorax white, with a faint yellowish tint. Abdomen above brownish, 
beneath ochreous-yellow. Wings as in nochiza, (37 b), but the blackish-brown stripes on the median and its 
branches, as well as of the costal base are absent. Expanse of wings: <$ 40 mm, $ 44 mm. Colombia, Ecuador, 
Bolivia, Peru. 
A. eriodes Hmps. (37 b) is a large species, with very broad wings, the body white, with a brownish criodcs. 
hue, beneath orange haired. Forewing above silvery white, with an orange costal margin and a faintly brownish 
proximal margin, beneath with woolly hair on the sub median fold and a longhaired cell. Hindwing white, 
above the cell is covered with orange-yellow woolly hair. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. Peru. 
A. delicia Schs. Much smaller than the preceding. Head and thorax dark grey, abdomen whitish, delicia. 
with a yellow-reddish anal tuft. Forewings white, the proximal half as far as the median smoky grey. Hindwings 
yellow-reddish, proximal margin and the space before the margin white, distal margin grey, towards the costa 
darker. Beneath the forewings are grey, the hindwings white, the basal costal-marginal half of both wings 
reddish-yellow. Expanse of wings: 23 mm. French Guiana. 
A. zucarina Dogn. (37 b) has an entirely black head with orange palpi, also antennae, collar and zucarina. 
shoulders are orange, like the chest and legs; the rest of the thorax is white, the abdomen ochreous, above 
towards the base with grey hair. Hindwings lustrous silvery white, with an orange costa, hindwings lustreless 
white. The under surface is tinged greyish-brown. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Ecuador (Loja). 
A. nivea Wkr. (= monoleuca Wkr.) (37 c) is a very common and widely distributed species. Body nivea. 
and wings silvery white. Palpi orange, with a black terminal joint; forehead blackish, vertex white or orange- 
yellow, antennae orange, so are the legs, which are partly striped black. Abdomen white, light yellow or orange- 
yellow. Costa of the forewing in the orange, in the $ white. — The form in which the collar and anterior 
half of the thorax, inclusive of the anterior half of the shoulder-covers, are tinged brownishgrey, is called: 
argentea Fldr. (= virginea Schs.), if the vertex is orange-yellow, — florecilla Dogn. if it is coloured brownish- argentea. 
grey. -—- plateada Dogn. is quite a different form, in which the collar and anterior half of the thorax and shoulder- florecilla. 
covers are coloured metallic green. Expanse of wings: 30 to 48 mm. Distributed from Mexico through the 
whole of Central America as far as Ecuador and Bolivia. 
A. nochiza Dogn. (37 b) is white'tinted ochreous; forehead and thorax suffused with blackish-brown, nochiza. 
Forewings with blackish-brown stripes on the costal base, the median and its branches; of the same colour 
a spot at the cell-end and 2 spots at the proximal margin. In the $ the ground colour is white, dusted dark 
brown, the inner-marginal spots more faded. Expanse of wings: 48 to 56 mm. Ecuador, Bolivia. 
A. zopisa Dogn. (37 c) has a brown body, being orange-yellow beneath and at the end; palpi orange, zopisa. 
with a black terminal joint. The grey forewings are very densely strewn with blackish-brown scales, the ba c e 
whitish. Hindwings yellowish-white. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Ecuador (Loja). 
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