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reddish-brown; a white discal spot bordered with a darker edge at 2 / 5 and another one at 3 / 5 . Hindwing light 
reddish-brown. Melbourne (Victoria); in November. 
A. complens Swh. S light yellow. Palpi below reddish, above brown. Antennae with light reddish- eomplens. 
brown pectinations. Forewing with the two usual brown cellular spots, a narrow brown antemedian transverse 
band. Both wings with a brown, straight, luniform discal band exhibiting inside lanciform brown spots, and 
with orange fringes. Expanse of wings: 58 mm. Australia. 
A. unisigna Swh. $ Antennae blackish-brown with whitish shafts. Palpi and frons blackish-brown, unisigna. 
Thorax lighter and darker chestnut-brown. Abdomen light red with a white anal brush. Forewing light 
ochreous grey, with a brownish-grey submedian band in which there is a distinctly marked white spot encircled 
with brownish-black at the end of the cell, another similar though narrower transverse band and a broad 
brownish-grey marginal band. Hindwing almost white with a similar marginal band. Under surface white, 
scantily marked; chest and legs brownish-grey. Expanse of wings: 56 mm. Sherlock River (West Australia). 
A. ostra Swh. Antennae black with white shafts. Palpi, frons, head, shoulder light ochreous. Thorax osira. 
blackish-brown. Wings black. Forewing with one yellow spot each in the cell and at the end of it, a yellow 
costal margin, the exterior half of the fringe and a sublimbal row of spots likewise yellow. In the hindwing 
the sublimbal yellow spots are larger and the whole fringe yellow. Abdomen orange. Under surface ochreous 
and yellow, hindwing however beneath black with a yellow cellular spot and marginal band. Expanse of wings: 
41(4 mm. Adelaide. 
A. binotata Btlr. (56 C f). Whitish grey. Forewing with a dark-edged spot almost in the centre and a binotata. 
reniform spot at the end of the cell; these two spots are situate between two grey, somewhat dentate transverse 
streaks which are curved towards the costa, but otherwise parallel to the margin; besides with an indistinct 
submarginal row of spots and indistinctly spotted fringe. Hindwing with pale fringe. Beneath the wings are 
pearl-coloured grey with golden brown margins. Expanse of wings: 51 mm. Peak Downs (Australia). 
A. charon B.-Bak. <$. Body and wings very dark smoky brown, both wings with a darker oblique charon. 
postmedian line. Forewing with a white spot in the cell and another larger one at the end of it. Expanse of 
wings: 59—60 mm. British New Guinea, at an altitude of 6000 ft., July — August. — Specimens from the Kebea 
Range, 1. c., are less dark, with traces of one irregular antemedian and median line each, and a row of dark 
blotches outside the postmedian line (= ab. kebea n. ah.). kebea. 
A. ekeikei B.-Bak. S brownish-grey, palpi blackish. Forewing with an antemedian, very irregular, ekeikei. 
reddish-brown line, a similar median line, a small dark spot in the cell and a larger one beyond the cell, a post¬ 
median, distally white-edged line and a row of dark spots in the marginal area. Hindwing distinguished by 
the absence of the median line; beneath with two black spots in the cell. Expanse of wings: 57—60 mm. British 
New Guinea, January-March. — The species is rather variable; the two dark spots of the forewing may be 
provided with a white pupil (= pupillifera form, nov.), the median area between the two lines is sometimes of a pupillifera 
particular colour, either dark grey or reddish (= mediana form, nov.), and sometimes all the markings are mediana. 
blurred (obsoletipicta form. nov.). obsoleti- 
picia 
A. stygiana Btlr. (56 C f). S'- forewing grey with a white, black-ringed spot in the cell, connected by stygiana. 
a black line with a similar spot at the end of the cell, and with 5 black transverse zigzag lines. Hindwing 
creamy yellow, in the last third ashy grey, at the base brownish-yellow and with a black transverse streak in 
the basal third, in the marginal area with a black undulating line and with a submarginal row of white spots. 
All the fringes black, spotted white. Body black with single white hairs, abdomen silky white, on the sides with 
a few red hairs. Antennae white with grey pectinations. Expanse of wings: 63 mm. Melbourne. 
A. figlina Swh. $ dark olive brown, frons ochreous and with a similar spot in the cell, a larger double figlina. 
spot at the end of the cell, and a discal band of indistinct black lines on the veins. All the fringes ochreous. 
Expanse of wings: 29(4 mm. West Australia: Sherlock River. 
A. dementi Swh. 4 *$ brown. On looking at the insect from a certain direction both its wings above dementi. 
show traces of a dark median transverse band, and near the base there are a few long grey hairs. Under surface 
a little lighter. Frons with a reddish hue. The $ is lighter. Expanse of wings: 6 * 34 (4, $ 39 mm. West Australia: 
Sherlock River. 
A. tritonea Swh. $ antennae black with light red shafts. Palpi and frons black, on the sides ochreous. tritonea. 
Head brown. Thorax and abdomen blackish chestnut with a bronze reflection, in the $ the abdomen shows 
rings formed of long red hairs. Forewing black, speckled with grey, with three black transverse bands nearing 
