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A. clara Swinh. is allied with A. pyrrhochroma Wkr. (Vol. II, t. 19 i). A nut-brownish red, the terminal clam: 
halves or thirds of the wings smoky black like the long-combed antennae are, fringes red. 2 light reddish, the 
wings semi-diaphanous. Expanse of wings: A 27, $ 32 mm. It flies in September and October near Bombay. 
A. aurantifascia Hmps. A body blackish-brown. Forewing brown with a dark green admixture, traces auranti- 
of subbasal and antemedian lines, as well as with an indistinct, undulate postmedian line and two submarginal fascia. 
lines. Hindwing black with a bright orange band from the base through the cell as far as near the margin, but 
interrupted by a broad black band on the discocellular; in the dorsal area two orange bands speckled with 
black scales; fringes orange. Under surface orange with broad black margins, a black discocellular band, and 
bands on the median veins of both wings. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. India. Naga Hills, 6000 ft. 
A. xerampelina Sivinh. (47 a) is said to be closely allied to the European Dasych. selenitica (Vol. II, 
t. 19 e). (J light reddish-brown, beneath lighter and more reddish, 2 light brown without any red. Both sexes 
with a brown, crescentiform discocellular spot, in the basal area more intensely brown, and with brown veins 
in the terminal half and a brown sublimbal band. Hindwing in the marginal area a little darker. Expanse 
of wings: <$ 29%, $ 32 mm. In September and October near Poona in India. 
A. atrella Hmps. (42 e). head and legs reddish-yellow. Thorax, abdomen and wings blackish-brown, atrella. 
Forewing with a black spot at the end of the cell and very indistinct ante- and postmeclian, curved lines approach¬ 
ing each other behind the median. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Sikkim, Margharita, Khasia Hills. Is said 
to fly also near Luzon, in May. 
A. simplex Wkr. (42 k). body brown. Forewing yellowish brown, with a postmedian line in the middle simplex. 
curved distally and edged with light proximally. Hindwing orange, sometimes with a brown margin. Expanse 
of wings: 30 mm. Nilgiris; North India. 
A. campbelli Hmps. <$: head and thorax olive brown, abdomen grey, in some places darker. Forewing campbelli. 
light olive with a brown admixture, in the proximal-basal area some white; an oblique, white, brown-speckled 
band from the costal margin beyond the middle to the middle of the proximal margin is distally dentate at 
vein 5. Hind wing of a pure white with an olive-brown marginal band. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Madras. 
A. lithosioides Wkr. <$: blackish-brown. Head, anterior part of the thorax, chest, ventral side and uthosioides. 
apex of the abdomen as well as legs ochreous. Palpi porrect, broad, obtuse. Antennae with very long pinnae. 
Wings oblong, fringes for the greatest part light grej-. Forewing with a ferruginous hue. Expanse of wings: 
24% mm. Sarawak (Borneo). 
A. ochripicta Moore. $ of a bright ochreous red, forewing along the costal margin and behind the cell ochripicta. 
slightly brownish. 2 is light greyish ochreous-brown, with a faint violettish tint, on the forewing the most 
intensely grey. Expanse of wings: 29% mm, 2 37 mm. Hongkong, Formosa. 
A. nigrofascia Wilem. Both sexes have brown forewings, at the base blackened like in the costal area, nigrofascia. 
with a blackish antemedian band, a blackish reniform discocellular spot, a blackish, blurred postmedian band, 
a series of blackish moon-spots on the margin, fringes slightly spotted black. Hindwing brown, in the costal 
and marginal areas blackened. Fringes light greyish-brown. Under surface brown, lighter than above, hi some 
places blackened. Expanse of wings: A 34, 38 mm. Kanshirei, Formosa; April, July. 
A. maxima Hmps. (42 e). A'- body dark brown, antennal shaft at the sides lighter. Forewing blackish- maxima. 
brown, the cell pale with a black spot in a light halo at the end of the cell, traces of a submarginal line, the 
fringes spotted light and dark. Hindwing smoky-black with a white band from the base to beyond the end . 
of the cell. Fringes pale. Both wings beneath with a distinctly marked cell-spot and a light discal area. Expanse 
of wings: 52 mm. Ceylon. 
A. major Hmps. (42 e). deviates from A. maxima by the head, thorax and forewings being ochreous- major. 
brown, the forewing without a light band in the cell, the black spot in a white area and much more prominent, 
just like the curved submarginal line which is incurved between the veins 2 and 3. Hindwing greyish-brown 
with a black costal area. Beneath whitish. 2 ochreous, the wings speckled darker. Forewing with a dark spot 
at the end of the cell and a submarginal row of indistinct dark spots. Hindwing lighter, except the fringes. 
Expanse of wings: $ 42, 2 50 mm. Ceylon, Trevandrum. Reported also from Luzon. 
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