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A. pseudojosiodes Eothsch. The superficially resembles a Josiodes. Antennae black-combed; head paeudojo- 
orange, on the vertex a black spot; thorax orange with small black spots; abdomen sooty black, anal tuft mixed 
with orange hair. On the forewing the basal three fifths are golden orange, the costa, proximal margin and a 
transveuse line, turning distally towards the anal angle below vein 1, are black; the distal two fifths are black. 
A badly marked, interrupted band and a large, oval spot before the margin golden orange. Hindwings black. 
Length of forewings: 20 mm. From the Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea. 
A. cervicalis Wkr. (17 d) differs from habrotis by a still greater reduction of the orange colour, so that cemcalis. 
there only remain a small basal spot, two median spots and 3 marginal spots. The hindwings are blackish- 
brown, with an irregular, orange median spot. — In obliterans form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the orange spotting obliterans. 
recedes still more, the spot in the cell disappears altogether. —- Australia. 
puncfatissi - 
via . 
^ __ A. flavopunctata Beth.-Bak. and subsp. punctatissima Rothsch. <$\ antennae black, strongly combed; flavopunc- 
? head orange, thorax black; tegulae, a spot at the base of the patagia and a middle spot on the thorax orange; iai0m 
abdomen black with some few scattered orange scales. Forewings in the subspecies black, entirely covered 
with a number of radiant, orange, very irregularly shaped spots; hindwings of a bright orange-yellow, border 
very broad black, growing narrower from the apex towards the posterior angle. Length of forewings: 11 mm. 
On the Oetakwa River in the Snow Mountains of Dutch New Guinea, October, November. — The $ of the 
typical flavopunctata Beth.-Bak. differs from punctatissima. by the brown, not black ground-colour of the forewings 
and the lighter, more faded orange spots which flow together and are less sharply marked, whereby the marking 
of the wing appears more hazy. It is also smaller, only 9 y 2 mm, and occurs on the Upper Aroa River in British 
New Guinea. 
A. conferta Wkr. (= signata Wkr.) (17 d) is a very variable species, of a deep orange, with 4 undulate, conferin. 
black transverse bands and a black median spot on the forewing, orange hindwings with a black border and 
median spot. -— In aegrota Btlr. the border of the hindwing is very broad and extends at the proximal margin aegroia. 
up to the base. — anila Moore has a narrow border of the hindwing. -— ochracea Btlr. is like aegrota, anila. 
but the bands of the forewings are very narrow. — limbata Btlr. is the corresponding form with a narrow border ochracea. 
G v x * limbata* 
of the hindwing. — In fusca Hmps. the orange ground-colour is dusted brown. — The larva of this species being f usca _ 
widely distributed in India and Ceylon is short and stout,- of a blackish-brown colour, with long black hair- 
tufts; the first and 6th to last rings are spotted orange on the dorsum. It pupates in a thin web. 
A. rhodina Rothsch. $ with a fiery-red body; abdomen, middle legs and hindlegs buff, antennae rhodina, 
doubly combed; forewings above fiery-red. a subbasal band, the costal margin, the veins distally, and the 
fringes are yellow, a large olive spot occupies more than half the wing, towards the costa twice indented, distally 
three times and posteriorly not at all. Hindwing light rosy-red with a yellowish or leather-coloured grey tone; 
the costal near the cell-apex, the 2nd and 3rd radials on a very short footstalk, the first median vein branching 
off before the cell-apex. Under surface rosy-red, the forewings with a scarlet hue. The $ is much larger, but 
lighter, the antennae plain with small bristles; the costal of the hindwing more proximal than in the the 
2nd and 3rd radials on a long footstalk, the anal tuft blackish, the olive area of the forewing is extended to the 
costa, the two indentations in front deep, particularly the proximal one which extends as far as the 1st median 
vein. Length of forewings in the ^ 7 to 8, in the 2 11 mm. 
A. mimetica Rothsch. <$-. exactly copies As. avernalis, but with strongly combed, not filiform antennae; mimetiea. 
the basal third of the antennal shaft orange-red, the rest of the shaft sooty greyish-brown, the pinnae sooty 
greyisli-brown; head and thorax orange-red, the latter with blackish slate-coloured stripes; abdomen blackish 
slate-coloured with a red-brown anal tuft. Forewings orange-red, 4 transverse bands, 3 subterminal spots 
and the fringes blackish slate-coloured. Hindwings blackish slate-coloured. Length of forewings: 13 mm. 
Tugela of the Salomon Islands. 
A. amabilis Rothsch., owing to the strongly combed male antennae, is allied to mimetica ; on both amabilis. 
wings of the $ the two lower radial veins and the upper median vein are very closely together. The forewings 
are orange-yellow with 3 double, irregular scarlet transverse lines which are connected with each other on the 
median and subcostal; besides there is at the margin, before the margin and at the base one line each, being 
more or less interrupted; 3 basal dots are black, the fringes brown, Hindwings orange, towards the margin 
tinged reddish. -— From the Salomon Islands (Isabel). 
* 
A. synestramena Hmps. (17 1) is not to be mistaken, owing to the very peculiar discal marking forming synestrame- 
a complete sling. In the cell there is a black longitudinal streak which has a hook downward on the discocellular. 
Between the posterior transverse line and the margin there are black vein-streaks; the ground-colour is a pale 
brownish-yellow. — Borneo. 
