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A. distributa Wkr. (17 m) differs from the somewhat larger ruenca Swinh. by its pale ochreous-yellow distribute. 
ground-colour and quite yellow, not black fringes. The hindwing exhibits a dark median and marginal band. - 
Borneo. 
A. flavfvenosa Moore (17 g) has yellow forewings with carmine striped veins. The median line dies flavivenosa. 
away towards the proximal margin after having touched the anterior transverse line; the posterior transverse 
line and short, antemarginal streak-spots are not very distinct. Hindwings with a pink hue. — Sikkim, Bhutan. 
A. chypsilon Semper. Forewings orange, suffused with scarlet; the anterior transverse line is very chypsilon. 
much flawed distally in the cell and is here connected with the proximally bent median line; the posterior trans¬ 
verse line rises at the costal margin from the same place as the median line and is united again with it at 
the proximal margin; on the upper radial it makes a distally bent knee, and has here a dark spot behind 
it; in the marginal area there are scarlet vein-stripes. Hindwings yellow, tinted carmine, in the $ pale pink. 
24 to 28 mm. — Philippines. 
A. fasciolata Rothsch. £ antennae brown, head and thorax scarlet, abdomen light yellowish-pink, fasciolata. 
Forewings yellowish with scarlet stripes and spots; a basal spot, a curved row of dots near the base, a curved 
median band, a curved postmedian line, a very broad subterminal band and a row of small marginal dots 
are blackish slate-coloured. Hindwings yellowish pink. Length of forewings: 13 1 /, mm. Biagi on the Mambara 
River, at an altitude of 5000 ft., taken in February. 
A. senara Moore (= posphyrea Snell.) is distinguished by blackish-brown markings bordered with senara. 
carmine on the orange-yellow forewings; at the base there are some dark dots. The anterior transverse line, 
being in the middle strongly flawed towards the margin, is united on the median with the broad median line 
which in its turn is connected on the median by a stripe with the posterior transverse line; at the proximal 
margin both are once more united; at the cell-end there is a black clot; an antemarginal macular line projects 
towards the margin on the upper and lower radial veins; on the border a series of carmine spots. Hindwing 
yellow, towards the margin with a red hue. — Borneo, Sumatra, Java. — The larva, according to Peepers, 
greatly resembles that of lutara and makes the same web. 
A. eldola Swinh. is allied to the preceding and flavida Btlr., with light ochreous-yellow forewings eldola. 
with 5 brown, sinuate transverse bands, the second and third in the middle joined with each other; a brown 
discal spot, round which the following line describes a large bow; the 5th transverse line with 2 sharp teeth 
extending to the border. Hindwings unmarked whitish. — Queensland (Coomoo). 
A. perpusilla Wkr. (17 i), one of the very smallest species, is yellow with a scarlet tint, 3 fine trans- perpusilla. 
verse lines and a black discal dot. — Borneo. 
A. semifascia Wkr. has yellowish-brownish forewings; the anterior transverse line is composed of semifascia. 
dots. Through the middle extends a faintly undulate line, behind it a dark dot; the posterior transverse line 
is extended to long teeth on the lowest subcostal, the upper and lower radial vein; behind it is an irregular 
row of dots. Hindwing at the border blackish-brownish, with a darker, postmedian transverse line. The $ 
is of a deeper yellow colour. -— In obsolescens form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the antemarginal row of dots is absent, obsolescens. 
— From Ceylon and Borneo. -— The larva is drab darkening into black, very densely haired, and lives on mosses. 
A. flaveola Beth.-Bak. has canary-coloured forewings; the anterior transverse line is distally flawed flaveola. 
in the cell and is here united with the proximally flawed median line; the latter bends distally, thereby uniting 
itself with the posterior transverse line on the lower median vein, then it turns again proximad and is once 
more united with the basal line on the submeclian fold; in the marginal area there are some blackish streak- 
spots; those on the upper and lower radial veins and on the lowest subcostal vein extend as far as the margin. 
Hindwings pale sulphureous-yellow like the body. Expanse of wings; 24 mm. — This species, originating from 
New Guinea (Dinawa), very much resembles the African A. sagenaria Wallgr. 
A. brunneofasciata Beth.-Bak. Forewing pale yellow with a strongly curved anterior transverse line, brunneofas- 
below the cell flowing together with a broad, blackish-brown longitudinal streak with the very broad post¬ 
median line; the latter is composed of two such lines which are connected on the veins. Hindwings pale yellow. 
— From New Guinea (Dinawa and Aroa River, in August, September). 
A. sagittaria Beth.-Bak. resembles the following species from which it differs by a sagittiform spot sayittaria. 
in the cell. Forewings ochreous-yellow with a dentate anterior and posterior, grey transverse line and a rather 
slightly curved median line connected with the basal transverse line on the submedian fold by a longitudinal 
streak; in the marginal area there is yet a strongly dentate line partly fused with the posterior transverse line. 
Hindwings yellowish-white. — Described from New Guinea (Dinawa, taken in August). 
