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Island, scarcely differs, but can perhaps be kept apart as a race by its slightly less reddish tinge and less 
suffused central area (reverting towards perscripta). Possibly the 3rd joint of the palpus is a little longer. 
A. palirrhoea Prout (19 d) apparently represents thermosaria on the Solomons; type from Vella Lavella. 
Larger, 3rd joint of palpus longer (about equal to the 2nd), femoral tuft of $ deeper red. Other differences 
will readily strike the eye. 
A. obliviaria Walk. (■ = suspicaria Snell., rufannularia Warr., obrinaria Moore, nec Guen.) (19 d). One 
of the most widely distributed of the Indo-Australian species — Ceylon, India, Malaysia, Celebes, the Moluccas, 
some of the Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea and its islands, Queensland, the Bismarcks, Solomons and 
as far as Samoa. Less variable than a good many, the forewing rather weakly marked, cell-spot of hindwing 
tinged with brownish and with a (generally thick) dark fuscous circumscription. Walker’s type came from 
Ceylon, Snellen’s from Celebes. — ab. rufidorsata Warr., the type from the Khasis, has the cell-mark of the 
hindwing considerably enlarged, broadly dark-ringed. Known also from N. Queensland, approximations on 
Java and New Guinea. 
A. nesidica Prout (19 d). Near obliviaria, but smaller, relatively narrower-winged, different in colour 
and with very much smaller cell-mark on the hindwing. Face rosy, edged laterally (except the upper part) 
with whitish (in obliviaria an extensive lower part is whitish). Mentawi Islands, common; a few are also known 
from Sipora and Langkawi. 
A. evocata sp. n. (19 d). Also near obliviaria, at least in structure, and with similar whitish face, only 
the upper y 3 or less rosy. Considreably larger, relatively longer-winged; distal margins more crenate. More 
strongly marked, especially beneath, cell-mark of forewing less concise (more suggesting the annular form, 
but not sharply expressed), that of the hindwing narrowed, in the type £ not ocellated; postmedian less ex¬ 
tremely inbent at the radial fold (both wings). New Hebrides (Miss L. E. Cheesman): Malekula, Ourua, type 
d 1 ; Santo, allotype §. A further $ from the same group of islands (Tongoa) is in the Tring Museum. From 
recumbens and samoana, which it more resembles in shape, colour and the strongly oblique median shade, 
evocata differs in the <$ structure. 
A. roseofusa Warr. (19 d). <$ still larger than the figured $ and more deeply coloured — intermediate 
in colour between obliviaria and nesidica. The usual median shade and dotted lines extremely weak, reddish, 
costal edge and fringes rather pale, forewing beneath with fleshy tinge, white posteriorly and distally. Borneo: 
Mt. Mulu, only one pair known; possibly also a more rosy aberration (1 $) from Kamborangali, Kinabalu. 
A. ochraria Swinh. (= ochracea Swinh.), described from Singapore, but not rare in the Malay Archi¬ 
pelago and Borneo and occasional in New Guinea, is jirobably nothing more than a form of the variable argy¬ 
romma, though it presents a somewhat different aspect. Smaller and rather less brightly coloured, with the 
cell-marks reduced to a dot on the fore wing and a very small ring on the hind. I formerly thought that the 
hind-femoral tuft of the was less strong, but do not find this to be substantiated. 
A. argyromtna Warr. (= gaeta Swinh.) (19g). Known by its large (though variable) size, ochreous 
ground-colour and strongly darkened costal edge of the forewing. In the type form the cell-spot of the hindwing 
is large, roundish and shining white. — In ab. heterospila Warr. (the type from Penang), it is small, black, 
with a whitish dot in the middle. — In ab. oberthiiri nov. (= falsareolaria $ Oberth., nec S') it is large and 
black. Other slight variations of this marking are known but have not received names. — celebensis subsp. nov. 
Hindwing in all the examples yet known with the white cell-spot punctiform or quite small, with narrow or 
quite moderate black circumscription (compare ab. heterospila). Underside considerably more variegated and 
strongly marked than in a. argyromma, the rosy suffusions generally very strong. Paloe, W. Celebes (J. P. A. 
Kalis): a good series from Gunong Rangkoenau, 1800 feet (loc. typ.) to Lindoe, 3700 feet, variable in size 
but otherwise rather constant. — argyromma is widely distributed: Ceylon, India (type from Khasis), Malaya, 
Tonkin, Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea and (perhaps a race, but only one specimen known to me) New Britain. 
A. hypocris Prout. In the absence of the the position of this species is conjectural, but it 
probably belongs to the section Perixera, perhaps quite near argyromma though with more crenulate margins. 
Areole wanting. Markings greyish, more blurred than in argyromma. Upolu, Samoa, 1 $. 
A. argentosa Prout (= monetaria var. A Guen.) (19 e). Closely similar to monetaria, especially to 
some of the large, dark New' Guinea forms ( ceramis ). A small areole almost invariably present (in monetaria 
almost invariably want ing). Tone never very reddish; costal edge of fore wing dark; hindwing with the white 
cell-spot almost always (in monetaria rarely) outstandingly large, more inclined to show a small projection 
outward behind the 2nd radial, the ante- and postmedian lines generally blacker. I regard as the type the 
Borneo specimen on wdiich Gtjenee founded his “ monetaria var. A”; other known localities are Ceylon. India, 
'palirrhoea. 
obliviaria. 
rufidorsata. 
nesidica. 
evocata. 
roseofusa. 
ochraria. 
argyromma. 
heterospila. 
oberthiiri. 
celebensis. 
hypocris. 
argentosa. 
