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line pale, diffuse, with a grey shade before it; hindwing luteous whitish, with grey outer line and terminal 
divisa, shade; the species varies both in size and continuity of markings; in the ab. divisa Moore (5 f), described from 
the Punjab, the suffusion is generally darker and the dark basal and terminal areas are separated by the 
luteipennis. paler median area which also interrupts the black fascia along submedian fold; in ab. luteipennis ab. nov. (5 f) 
from the Khasia Hills, Assam and from Sikkim the hindwing of the is strongly luteous-tinged, without 
any other dark markings, and both sexes are larger than in typical fas data. The species occurs throughout 
India, Ceylon, and Burma; in Amboina, the Kei Islands, New Guinea and Queensland; also in China, Japan, 
and Kashmir. 
nubilata. A. nubilata Hmps. (5 f). Forewing greyish purple, paler, more olive brown, along the two folds; 
the lines blackish purple; inner and outer both double, lunulate dentate; the median shade consisting of two 
distinct lunulate dentate lines, each of which is also double, the inner passing between the stigmata, the outer 
beyond the reniform; the inner partially olive brown instead of purple; orbicular stigma brown, large and round 
with a round centre; reniform large, purplish black; the paler, somewhat violet, submarginal line runs between 
two olive-brown dentate shades; a row of black stud-shaped marks before termen, that on submedian fold 
enlarged, to interrupt submarginal line; fringe pale violet brown, with two dark crenulate lines; at base of inner 
margin a patch of ochreous and canary yellow scales; hindwing luteous ochreous with a brownish terminal 
border narrowing to anal angle; veins terminally blackish; a dull dark cellspot and wavy outer line; a row 
of pale dark-centred terminal lunules. Sikkim, N. India; also from Phallaloong, on the Nepaul frontier. 
In the o the ground colour is paler, more violet grey. 
pruinosa. A. pruinosa Guen. {= soluta Walk.) (5 f) (Vol. 3, pi. 3d). Forewing whitish grey, thickly dusted and 
partly suffused with olive grey and fuscous; inner and outer lines blackish, double, the arms well-separated, 
the inner line oblicpie, minutely crenulate, the outer lunulate dentate, filled in with white lunules between 
the veins; orbicular stigma large, round, whitish, with grey centre and black annulus; reniform large, with 
blackish outline and dark lunulate centre, partially obscured by the diffuse cloud of the double dark median 
shade; some dark suffusion beyond outer line on the two folds, followed by the indeterminate pale submarginal 
line; black triangles before the grey and white mottled fringe; hindwing luteous suffused with pale brownish 
burmanen- grey, with a paler curved space beyond an indistinct dark outer line; fringe whitish; ab. burmanensis ab. nov. 
sts - (5 f) is smaller, whiter, with the dark markings more sharply defined. A north Indian species, found in Assam, 
Sikkim, and the Punjab, Dharmsala, Kasauli, Simla, Sultanpur, and Kulu, extending into Kashmir; described 
in the first instance from Java; the aberration from Lower Burma. 
albiorbis. A. albiorbis Hmps. (= pruinosa Moore nec Guen.). Somewhat larger than the last species, but much 
resembling it; the outer line is crossed on submedian fold by a black streak from median shade to subterminal 
suffusa. line; the ab. suffusa ab. nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) has the ground colour greyer and the dusting darker brown; 
the white lunules on the outer line of forewing being rendered smaller and obscurer. A South Indian species, 
found in Ceylon: the aberration from Travancore. 
crenuiata. A. crenulata Beth.-Baker (5g). Forewing ochreous grey, with pale reddish-brown suffusion and darker 
dusting; inner and outer lines blackish, double, filled in with white; orbicular stigma white, round; reniform 
outlined with black Avith a white lunule externally; median shade dark and double at costa, single and waved 
below middle; submarginal line pale with dark shades on each side; a series of pale terminal lunules with black 
centres; hindwing luteous tinged with grey; a broad diffuse outer line and the terminal border darker. Bri¬ 
tish New Guinea. 
maxima. 
mgromacu- 
lata. 
A. maxima Moore (of, g). Forewing grey, dusted with darker grey; inner and outer lines dark grey, 
double; the arms of the inner line far apart and interrupted, oblique and Avavy, filled in Avith grey; the outer 
filled in with whitish, the lunulate dentate outer arm blackish, crossed on each fold by a fine black streak rea¬ 
ching submarginal line, which is all but obsolete; median shade slight and diffuse; orbicular stigma a flattened 
oval, black-ringed; reniform large, darker, with black outline and central lunule; marginal spots black; a narrow 
black streak from base along submedian fold to inner line with faint blackish spurs; hindwing pale luteous 
fuscous, the large cellspot, broad curved outer line, and marginal border darker; the fringe pale. A large species, 
resembling major Brem. (= anaedina Btlr.) (Vol. 3, pi. 3 b), but quite distinct. Occurs in N. India, Punjab and 
Assam; and in Burma. 
A. nigromaculata Warr. (5g). Forewing white; the basal 2 / 3 more or less wholly suffused with fuscous 
olive thickly speckled with black, leaving pale spaces above median before and after inner line and at base of 
inner margin; costa at base,the base of cell, and submedian fold black to inner line; the pale space above it ex¬ 
tending below cell to submedian fold and there white; space beyond inner line containing the round orbicular 
Avith brown centre, whitish annulus, and black outline; inner line black and double, squarely projecting outwards 
above vein 1; median line black and double, waved, more or less lost in the broad dark suffusion, which also 
envelopes the reniform, and is marked along submedian fold by blacker streaks continued vaguely to termen; 
outer line finely double, lunulate dentate, followed by three dark blotches, one at costa, and one on each fold, 
connected with a roAv of submarginal olive lunules, between which and a terminal row of black stud-shaped 
