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a band, otherwise reduced to a line. Forewing falcate, with a brown discal spot. Hindwing with a brown patch 
in the anal angle. Expanse of wings: 90 mm. Australia. 
A. canescens Wkr. grey, lustrous. Antennae brownish-yellow. Wings with a thin, straight, canescnis 
oblique, greyish median band which is distally accompanied by a row of greyish spots. Forewing with two 
small reddish ocelli which are black in the centre. Hindwing with a reddish streak towards the end of the hind- 
margin. Expanse of wings: 57 mm. Australia. - — deficiens Wkr. The A is very pale brownish-yellow and in deficiens. 
some places purple-coloured. Described from North Australia. 
A. rubriscripta T. P. Lucas. body and antennae brownish-yellow, palpi dark with creamy-white rubriscrip- 
tips. Forewing brownish-yellow with four brown lines or bands, the first of which rises from near the base of 
the costa, extending at first for a short distance along the costal margin and then being curved towards the 
hind-margin; the second band is rather broad which extends in a similar way though very convexly curved 
towards the distal margin, from a brown costal spot at % of the costa to % of the hind-margin a dark brown 
line, whilst the fourth line being parallel to it is brownish-yellow. Fringes ochre-brown. Hindwing like the 
forewing with three bands. 53 mm. Mackay (Australia). 
A. rosea T. P. Lucas. body, palpi, and antennae orange, thorax more pink. Forewing orange rosea. 
with pink veins and between them black dots; a black line from near the base, crossed by a smoke-coloured 
line and touching about in the centre of the wing a smoke-coloured band which extends from % of the costa 
to the centre of the hind-margin; besides a submarginal. smoke-coloured band. Fringes creamy-yellow. Hindwing 
orange with a pink hue. Fringes creamy-yellow. £ 32 mm. The $ is slightly larger, but otherwise the same. 
Cooktown. -— The species is particularly characterized by the pinkish-red veins. 
A. haemoptera Low. $ body and extremities mahogani-red. Antennae ochre-yellow with brown haemopicra. 
pectinations. Forewing with a straight margin, and an oblique distal margin, mahogani-red with purple brown 
markings; an extinct curved band from % of the costal margin to % of the hind-margin, a distinctly marked 
white, black-ringed discal spot; a broad, almost straight and undulate band the anterior edge of which extends 
from % of the costa to 3 / 5 of the hind-margin and is irregular, whilst the posterior edge runs from 5 / c of the 
costa almost to the anal angle and is dentate at the veins, each tooth being filled up by a black spot; a moderate 
marginal line; fringes reddish-ochreous. Hindwing reddish-brown, towards the base lighter, with a black 
discal spot and an almost straight row of black spots on the veins from the costal margin near the apex to 
the anal angle, which band is posteriorly bordered by a lighter band, as well as with an extinct brown 
marginal band; fringes like in the forewing. Expanse of wings: 52 mm. Port Lincoln in Australia. 
A. magnifica T. P. Luc. Head black with a grey face. Palpi black. Antennae white with black magnifica. 
pectinations. Thorax brown with some orange and white hairs. Abdomen ferruginous-reddish with white apex. 
Forewing grey with black marking and some white irroration; 5 more or less interrupted blackish-brown 
transverse bands, an irregular, dentate, interrupted sublimbal band, a black spot on the costa at 1 / 6 , one blackish- . 
brown longitudinal band each from the first transverse band to the distal margin almost parallel to and approach¬ 
ing the costal margin resp. hind-margin, between them three parallel greyish-brown bands. Fringes brown, 
speckled with white. Hindwing brown, with grey and whitish patches. $ larger, on the head and thorax intensely 
white-haired, abdomen more ferruginous reddish than orange, the middle third of the hindwing with a greyish- 
white dentate band. <$ 70 mm. $ 100 mm. Queensland. —- Larva and pupa are found below bark. 
A. asciscens T. P. Luc. Body, antennae, and palpi black, ventrum grey, bead brown. Forewing asciscens. 
smoky-grey, marked black, extending from 2 / 5 of the costal margin to % of the hind-margin there is a narrow 
blackish-brown band enclosing a sharply marked, round, white spot, a black band from 3 / 5 of the costa] margin 
to % of the hind-margin; from 4 / 5 of the costal margin to % of the hind-margin a black sinuous line which 
is posteriorly bordered by a white line, and there is also a similar submarginal double line. Fringes brownish- 
grey. Hindwing blackish-brown with a darker band from 2 / 5 of the costal margin to the centre of the hind- 
margin and with three sinuous transverse lines at %. The $ is a little larger and lighter than the (J. — Allied 
to A. magnified. 96—-100 mm. The cocoon is reported to be suspended, whilst that of magnifica is 
spun fast in its whole length. Queensland. 
A. simplex Wkr. $ brownish-yellow. Head, chest in front, and palpi red. Wings yellow. Wings with simplex. 
a narrow reddish median oblique band and two reddish discal spots. Forewing with some reddish markings 
along the costal margin. Hindwing beyond the median band slightly hued reddish. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. 
— Described according to a specimen without the patria being stated; it is said to have been re-discovered 
near Sydney. 
A. plana Wkr. $ is very closely allied to simplex , but it seems to have no discal spots. The median plana. 
band of the wings is distally accompanied by an indistinct row of black spots; between them and the distal 
margin likewise blackish spots. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Australia. 
