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of the costal margin. In the $ the orange band of the forewing is broader and distally angled also on the upper 
radial, the spot of the hindwing larger, extending to the proximal angle. Salomons (Choiseul). -— subsp. reducta rcducta. 
Rothsch. The <$ differs from the typical form by the reduction of the orange band of the forewing, which is 
reduced to a spot extending from the proximal margin to directly behind the median. On the hindwing the 
band is reduced to a small spot in the costal region. The $ has all the bands still narrower. New Georgia, 
Salomon Islands, March: Wela, Lawela, March. The type from New Georgia. 
A. perihaemia Hmps. (17 m) is one of the smallest species, whitish, with a pink costal maigin perihaemia. 
and border; the distally angled antemedian scarcely touches the straight median line below the cell; the posterior 
transverse line is very dentate, behind it runs a row of clots; the hindwings are pink. — Java. 
A. pudibunda Snell. (17 e) greatly resembles perihaemia , but it is somewhat larger and of a more pudibunda. 
yellowish, not white ground-colour, the median line is towards the base flawed as far as close to where it touches 
the antemedian line. — Assam, Sumatra, Java. 
A. decussa B.-Baker has yellowish wings with a pink hue, towards the margin of a deeper red, with decussa. 
an X-shaped, brown border-line in the median area and a distally angled posterior transverse line touching 
the distal parts of the X at the costal and proximal margins. Hindwings diaphanous pale-yellow. New Guinea 
(Arfak Mountains). 
A. subcruciata Rothsch. <J: head, antennae, and thorax reddish-orange, the thorax with slate-coloured subcruciata. 
spots. Abdomen orange buff. Forewing orange, entirely suffused with scarlet, at the base a small black dot; 
near the base a spot, two antemedian crossed lines, a spot and two postmedian bands slate-coloured, indis¬ 
tinctly bordered with red; marginal line scarlet; hindwings buff. Length of forewings: 10% mm. Mount 
Mulu in North Borneo. 
A. miltochristina Rothsch. Both sexes resembles Miltochrista cruciata, antennae brown, head and miltochristi- 
thorax scarlet, abdomen salmon-coloured. Forewings scarlet; the doubly cross-shaped antemedian bands 
are dissolved towards the proximal margin into a number of rings; a semicircular postmedian band, a number 
of marginal streaks and the fringes slate-coloured. Hindwings salmon-pink. Length of fore wings: 14% mm. 
Mambara River (New Guinea), taken in March. 
A. ecmelaena Hmps. (17 m). A small species from Sangir, with orange-yellow wings and irregularly ecmelaena. 
dentate transverse bands. The hindwings exhibit a black marginal band. 
A. striata Wil. £ head and thorax light salmon-pink, the thorax dotted black. Forewing light salmon- striata. 
pink; the antemedian band black, its distal margin almost straight, its proximal margin towards the costa 
diffuse and about in the middle projecting proximally; behind the middle a series of black streaks on the veins, 
the proximal ends of the upper ones connected by a short, irregular transverse line representing the post median; 
at the border small, black dots. Hindwings lighter. 21 mm. Formosa. 
A. vivida Wkr. (17 m, as suavis) is somewhat larger than striata, and differs by the strongly dentate vivida. 
median line running very obliquely. Hindwings yellow with a black marginal band. -— Celebes; Batjan. 
A. xantherythra Hmps. Body sulphury-yellow, spotted red. Forewings sulphury-yellow and marked xanthcry- 
somewhat like in suavis, with carmine transverse markings often connected with each other; at the base a spot 
connected by a subcostal longitudinal stripe with the curved anterior transverse line which is in the cell, on 
the submedian fold and proximal margin connected with the median band distally angled in and below the 
cell and exhibits small dark spots; border rather broad carmine, at the costal and proximal margins spotted 
yellow, connected with the median band on the upper radial and lower median; besides postmedian and ante- 
marginal, faded blackish-brown transverse lines. Hindwings yellow, towards the apex tinged carmine. — 
New Guinea. 
A. cuneigera Wkr. (17 m) differs from the similar species by the blackish-brown fringes of the forewings, cunelgera. 
The wings are yellow with 3 strongly and irregularly dentated transverse lines and a black dot at the cell-end. 
Behind the postmedian dentate line a row of dots, the dots on the upper and lower radial veins are removed 
towards the margin. — Borneo, Sumatra. 
A. obliquilinea Swinh. froms about the middle between cuneigera. Walk, and undulosa Moore, from obliquiti- 
both of which it is discernible by the oblique median line. Body and forewings orange-yellow; at the base of nea ' 
the forewing a small black spot, followed by 2 irregularly distally curved lines, behind them the median line 
running about as in inconspicua Moore ; before the border follows a line composed of acute angles. Hindwings 
almost white, unmarked. — Assam. 
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