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A. sexualis Fldr. (17 e) has scarlet forewings with 4 partly incomplete, strongly flawed transverse sexualis. 
lines. Hindwings yellow with a red hue. —- From Amboina, Aru and the Louisiads. 
A. metascota limps, is orange-scarlet on its head and thorax with small brownish spots, the abdomen metascota. 
blackish-brown, at the end scarlet. The forewings are scarlet with blackish dots and small spots in the basal 
area; the anterior transverse line is strongly angled outwards in the cell, inwards on the submedian fold, 
and connected with the slightly undulate median line by brownish dusting; the posterior transverse line, being 
angled inwards on the submedian fold, is connected with a somewhat faded antemarginal line by brown dusting, 
the latter line sending teeth outwards on the upper and lower radial veins. Hindwing blackish-brown. — Salo¬ 
mons, Choiseul. Expanse of wings: 30 to 36 mm. — subsp. analogus Rothsch. bears the same relationship analogue. 
to metascota as jloridensis to typical avernalis. It differs from it by the lighter yellowish-red forewings and by 
the black being replaced by slate-colour and reduced to a pair of confluent antemedian bands and a similar 
pair of postmedian bands. Hindwings reddish-buff with a broad slate-coloured margin, not quite sooty black. 
The $ is likewise more yellowish on the forewings and shows the same differences on the hindwings. Isabel 
Island, in June. — subsp. feminina Rothsch. has in the the black of the forewing very much reduced and femininu. 
an orange-red ground-colour, whilst in the £ the black markings are widened, so that both sexes look very 
differently. Wela-Lawela, in February. — In contrast with it is suffusa form. nov. from Bougainville (ab. 1 Hmps.) suffusa. 
where the brown dusting is so preponderant, that there only remain some red spots of the ground-colour. 
A. septemmaculata Heyl. (= agraphia Hmps.) (17 f) has brown forewings with 5 yellowisli-white, septemma- 
small spots in the basal part and two larger ones at the cell-end. Hindwings yellowish-white, at the base of culata. 
the proximal margin tinged orange. Head, collar, and shoulder-covers are yellow like the abdomen; thorax 
red-brown. —- Java. 
A. anaemica Hmps. is somewhat like the preceding, but only half its size. Head and thorax are anaemica. 
yellowish mixed with red-brown; abdomen yellowish-white. Forewings light red-brown with small, pale yellow¬ 
ish spots at the base of the proximal margin, before the middle at the costal margin and below the cell; an 
irregular yellowish spot is in the proximal half of the median area, another below and behind the cell-end; 
before the margin and at/ the end of the lower median vein there are small, blurred, yellowish spots. Hindwings 
yellowish-white, at the apex dusted brownish. — From Dutch New Guinea (Fak-Fak). 
A. miltochristaemorpha Rothsch. <$: antennae, head and thorax golden yellow, and on the patagia miltochri- 
a dark brown spot; abdomen light carmine with yellowish hair at the base and anal tuft. Forewing: the basal sta emorpha■ 
three fifths golden yellow, the two apical fifths orange-red; two antemedian, dentate, interrupted, aniline- 
brown bands and between them behind the middle; the proximal postmedian line and the distal antemedian 
line are connected below the median fold by a horizontal line; the distal postmedian line is very much clouded 
and terminates in stripes into the border; fringes aniline-brown. Hindwings rosy-red. $ larger. Length of 
forewings: £ 12%, $ 18 mm. Setekwa River, Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, at an altitude of 2 to 3000 ft., 
in August. 
A. pyrauloides Rothsch. <$: antennae brownish-scarlet; head scarlet with a brownish-grey median pyrauloi- 
band; thorax scarlet with small brownish-grey spots; basal half of abdomen above dark buff, apical half pink. des ' 
Forewing: basal half orange-yellow, everywhere watered and striated scarlet; basal fifth occupied by a slate- 
grey reticulation, in the middle a broad, slate-coloured oblique band and a similar postmedian one which is 
flawed and from which a number of half confluent, slate-coloured stripes run; Fringes blackish. Hindwings 
light salmon-coloured. Length of forewings: 17 mm. Setekwa River in Dutch New Guinea, September. 
A. pyraula Meyr. (17 f) from New Guinea and Queensland is orange-yellow, at the costal margin pyraula. 
and border of the forewing tinged carmine. The three middle transverse lines are subcostally connected by 
a blackish-brown longitudinal stripe; antemarginal black streaks. 
A. insularis Rothsch. <$ similar to pyraula Meyr. Antennae in the basal fourth scarlet, otherwise insular Is. 
dark brown; head and thorax scarlet, not orange-yellow. Abdomen salmon-coloured. Forewings orange-scarlet, 
not golden yellow, with scarlet stripes in the distal third, 2 small dots at the base, 2 antemedian bands, a curved 
postmedian oblique band being connected with the preceding below the costa, some antemarginal, small clouds 
and the fringes slate-coloured. Hindwings salmon-coloured pink, not buff. 9 larger, 18 mm; 15 mm. Louisiads, 
in October; Entercasteaux, in December. 
A. hieroglyphica Rothsch. antennae light brown, basal third golden yellow; head golden yellow, hieroglyph i- 
thorax golden yellow with small black spots on the patagia and the posterior thorax; abdomen buff. Forewing ca - 
golden yellow, a black spot at the base and two black, curved and angular, antemedian transverse bands being 
