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basal area, and a band beyond outer line diffusely olive; subbasal line obscure, but angled outwards below 
vein 1; inner line oblique, edged inwardly with a black line, to vein 1, joined by a fine curved line 
from base of reniform stigma; outer line bent outwards below costa, evenly curved from vein 8 to 2, 
sharply inanglecl in submedian interval and more shortly and obscurely below vein 1, outwardly edged 
by a fine dark line; orbicular and reniform stigmata with fine green outlines; the former oblique, open 
below; the outer edge of reniform a narrow lunule; a fine oblique pale green streak from apex to outer 
band; veins finely pale green, veins 1 to 4 with oblique lines on each side meeting at termen; fine ter¬ 
minal dark lunules preceded by pale green ones; fringe pale olive green; hindwing dark bronzy fuscous, 
with the veins slenderly pale beyond middle and the fringe pale olive green. Biagi, Mambare River, British 
New Guinea. 
25. Genus: Ancara Walk. 
Tongue well developed; frons rounded; palpi upturned, strong, the second segment thickly scaled, 
the third long and smooth; antennae pectinated in both sexes, the pectinations longer in the <$; vertex 
and thorax with slight crests; abdomen with a dorsal series of crests; pectus woolly; tibiae fringed with 
hair; neuration normal. Type Ancara replicans Walk. 
A. replicans Walk. (18 a). Forewing olive fuscous varied with greyish ochreous, and suffused with replicans. 
dark fuscous in places; fringe of inner margin rufous ochreous; lines yellowish, sometimes with red scales; 
subbasal line obscure, yellowish and waved, emitting from base of median vein an oblique reddish line to 
y 3 of inner margin; inner line equally obscure; claviform stigma large, black; orbicular and reniform with 
reddish yellow outlines, the reniform very large, extending below median, and narrowed above, the outer 
edge straight, emitting short red streaks on each side of vein 5, the upper bent upwards to termen 
at vein 7, the lower joining a red line curving from 2 / 3 of inner margin to end of vein 4; outer line 
double, blackish, indistinct, the teeth marked with white dashes on the veins; a leaden grey or ochreous 
grey blotch beyond claviform; submarginal line indistinct, ochreous grey, inwardly defined by obscure black 
dentate marks; a slender, evenly curved, red line before termen; the veins beyond it pale, running 
out into the fringe; hindwing dark brownish with a reddish flush; —the ab. albiplaga ab. nov. (18 a) has the all Apia (ja. 
blotch beyond claviform white and prominent; Sarawak and Kuching, Borneo; Singapore; Penang. 
A. obliterans Walk. (18 a). Forewing fuscous dusted with olive ochreous and rufous scales, and obliterans. 
with dark suffusion in places; the lines dark but ill-defined; costa marked alternately by dark and rufous 
spaces and with pale red dots before apex; claviform stigma a black patch; orbicular and reniform with 
slight rufous ochreous outlines, the latter large and extending below cell; outer line blackish, indistinctly 
double, angled outwards on vein 4, dentate lunulate, the teeth white-tipped on the veins; subterminal line 
ochreous grey, preceded by black dentate marks and followed by a dark blotch beyond cell; hinclwing dark 
fuscous, with a red tinge; fringe rufous; in the ab. punctiplaga Walk. (18a) the cell is followed by an punctipiaga. 
elongate oblong reddish blotch reaching subterminal line; ab. albimacula ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) has albimacula. 
an oval white blotch beyond claviform stigma, corresponding to the ab. albiplaga of replicans ; while in 
ab. pictistigma ab. nov. (= ab. 3 Hmps .) (18 a) the upper stigmata are also defined by white. Recorded piclistigma. 
from the Nilgiris, Madras, S. India, the Malay peninsula, Borneo, and Nias Island. 
A. anaemica Hmps. (18 b). Forewing olive ochreous or olive fuscous mixed with rufous, which is anaemica. 
strongest along both folds; lines dark, double, filled in with pale; the inner waved; the outer lunulate 
dentate, the teeth marked by white points on the veins; median shade distinct, oblique to vein 2 close to 
outer line, then inbent; subterminal line wavy dentate, marked chiefly by the pale rufous or ochreous 
terminal area beyond it; orbicular and reniform stigmata rufous, outlined with dark; the reniform followed 
by a rufous patch; claviform stigma indistinct, followed by a large dull ochreous grey patch; hindwing 
dull ochreous suffused with fuscous, with a blackish fuscous terminal border and dark cellspot; fringe 
ochreous yellow; the species varies in distinctness of markings; some specimens having them wholly dull 
and blurred. Found only in Ceylon. Smaller and duller than the other species. 
A. kebea Beth-Baker (18 b). Forewing deep redbrown with black brown partial suffusion; inner hebea. 
line double, black brown, rarely clear, being obscured by dark suffusion; outer line also double, filled in 
with paler, below middle with ochreous, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then obliquely in¬ 
curved; subterminal line dentate-lunulate, preceded below middle by black brown shading, indented on 
both folds and out-curved between; claviform stigma large, black brown, followed by a rounded pale 
blotch, sometimes unicolorous, or leaden grey, or grey mixed with whitish or ochreous scales; orbicular and 
reniform with grey or whitish or rufous annuli; the former oblique, elliptical; the latter large, extending 
below median, and with a slender yellowish or rufous streak from it to end of vein 5; black terminal 
lunules tipped with paler; fringe redbrown; hindwing orange yellow, with broad redbrown terminal border, 
