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A. luisa Pag. (42 f). Forewing dark greyish-brown with a lighter, hook-shaped discocellular spot, luisa. 
Hindwing blackish. Under surface dark sooty brown. Head, legs and ventrum yellowish. It flies in Luzon 
in May; besides known from Nias. 
A. leucogramma Fldr. (42 f, misprinted into leucagramona) . Black, the wings in the basal area a little leucogram- 
greyish, with a small, whitish grey, at both ends pointed transverse spot at the end of the cell. Teeth of 
the combs brown. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Length of wings: $ 12 to 13 mm. It flies in January in Luzon. 
The size of the white spots is variable, particular^ on the hindwings, where they are sometimes expanded 
across the whole middle of the wing (ab. expansata ab. nov.). For this reason, leucogramma and luisa may be expansata. 
of the same species. — The larva lives in Manila on bamboo, it is of a light yellow, feebly haired yellowish, 
with a brown longitudinal stripe on the dorsum and a brown head. On the head with two tufts of long 
dark brown hair and at the anus with one similar tuft, on the dorsum of the 4th to 7th joints with oire tuft 
each of yellowish-brown hair. Pupal stage in Manila in January for 12 days. 
A. exoleta Sivinh. <$ red-brown. Palpi yellow. Antennae dark brown. Forewing with a large, distinctly exoleta. 
marked white spot in the middle of the cell and another one at the end of it. Abdomen and hindwing reddish, 
the latter in the marginal area brownish. All the fringes light reddish. Under surface reddish-yellow, with 
two white spots in the forewing as above, and a similar white spot at the end of the cell in the hindwing. Expanse 
of wings: 32 mm. Queensland. 
A. flaveofusca Swinh. (42 g). $ body brown, head ochreous. Forewing brown, with a large ochreous flaveofusca. 
area and a large black discocellular spot. Fringes ochreous, spotted with brown. Hindwing brown, the posterior 
margin and more than a third of the posterior part of the wing ochreous. Expanse of wings: 19% mm. Borneo, 
Law r as, Sandakan. 
A. plana WJcr. (Vol. II, t. 22 d) with the form junctifera Wkr. see in the palearctic part, Vol. II, p. 120—I. plana. 
A. ochracea Moore, described from Calcutta, is one-coloured, of an intense ochreous tint. Expanse ochracea. 
of wings: 34 to 42 mm. The larva lives on bamboo; pupa on the 19th of October, imago on the 28th of the 
same month. 
A. substrigosa Wkr. (Vol. II, t. 19 h) and pyrrhochroma Wkr. (Vol. II, t. 19 i) see in Vol. II, p. 121. substrigosa. 
— At the same place A. cinnamomea Moore with the form aurantiaca Warr. dnnamo- 
mea. 
9. Genus: Cifuua Wkr. 
Medium-sized, mostly dark lepidoptera with long, stout palpi extended oblicpiely forward, bi-combed 
antennae and moderately long wings, the border of which is almost straight. Distributed in Southern and 
Eastern Asia. As to the palearctic forms comp. Vol. II, p. 121. 
C. locuples Wkr. (Vol. II, t. 19 d) and the more northern form confusa Brem. comp. Vol. II, p. 121. — locuples. 
locuples also occurs in the Indo-Australian region, in Formosa. The first stages are described by Nagano in: 
Konch. Sek. 13 (1909), p. 311 to 315, but unfortunately in Japanese. 
C. cervina Moore. £ deviates from C. locuples by its dark brown colouring; forewing with a purple cervina. 
hue and a black discocellular moon-spot, the postmedian band is proximallv bordered by an almost straight 
line; no marginal spots. Palpi and legs blackish. Expanse of wings: 54 mm. Sikkim. 
C. biundulans Hmps. (42 k). ochreous. Abdomen hued brownish. Forewing with a light, doubly biundulans. 
sinuate antemedian line, proximally bordered by a broad dark band, besides with a faintly undulate, light 
postmedian line midway very murch curved distally and with a dark hue along its distal side. Hindwing lighter 
with traces of dark speckles. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. India (Khasis). 
10. Genus: Iffalacliitis Hmps. 
Forewing triangular with a sharp apex and an oblique border, 2 being very distant from 3, 6 rising 
from the angle, 7 and the long footstalk of 8 and 9 from the apex of the areola, 10 from the areola directly 
before its apex. The proximal margin of the hindwing is long, 3 and 4 on a footstalk and rising like 3 from 
the cell-angle, 6 and 7 on a footstalk. Palpi porrect, projecting little beyond the frons. <$ antennae with 
long combs. 
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