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44. Genus: Anclia Walk. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upcurved, the second segment long, smoothly scaled, 
the third erect; antennae of $ shortly ciliated; metathorax with short thick crest; tibiae smooth; neura- 
tion of wings normal. Type A. velans Walk. 
A. triphaenoides Walk. (19 h). Forewing grey brown, thickly irrorated and suffused with black; sub- iriphaenoi- 
basal line represented by a small blackish V-shaped mark in base of cell; inner line indistinct, irregu- deSl 
larly wavy, double from costa to submedian fold; outer line diffuse towards costa, then double, waved, 
interrupted between veins 5 and 2, then oblique; subterminal greyish, defined on inner side by fuscous 
shading; terminal black spots small; orbicular and reniform stigmata slightly tinged with fulvous; the 
former small, round, with a black dot at centre; the latter narrow, black edged inwardly, with two 
black points on outer edge; a dark diffuse median shade bent in middle; hindwing dull reddish orange, 
the veins and costal area brownish; a broad fuscous terminal border, with sinuous diffuse inner edge, 
the termen itself narrowly orange, swollen into a patch beyond submeclian interspace; fringe whitish, tinged 
with orange, dark at apex. Moreton Bay and Brisbane, Queensland; W. Australia. 
A. vesta Swinh. (19 h). Forewing purplish grey suffused with darker; inner line double, filled in vesta. 
with grey, angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1, preceded there by blackish suffusion; 
the outer line double, each arm consisting of lunules in the intervals, inbent below middle; subterminal 
greyish white, zigzag, inwardly defined by black suffusion; a row of black lumdes on termen; clavi- 
form stigma a black mark on the inner line; orbicular grey, black-edged, and with black spot at centre; 
reniform 8-shaped with dark centre and pale grey annulus; some fulvous scaling in cell between and 
round the stigmata and in outer half of submedian fold; hindwing black brown, the inner marginal area 
smoky olive fuscous except at tornus; an orange fascia in lower part of cell, expanding beyond cell and 
extending towards termen; ab. maculata ab. nov. (I9h) has a pale patch in midwing before inner line, maculaia. 
the cell and stigmata and the terminal area pale; a blackish cellspot; the fringe orange. Queensland, 
St. Aignan, Sud Est Islands, and St. Joseph’s River, British N. Guinea. 
A. nectens Walk. (19i). Forewing dark brown with grey suffusion; inner line indistinct, double, nectcns. 
waved, oblique to submedian fold; outer line double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, and 
incurved below middle; subterminal grey with fuscous shading internally; a row of small black terminal 
spots; orbicular stigma small, round, edged with dark brown; reniform edged only on inner side; hind¬ 
wing black brown, with an oblique orange band beyond cell from vein 6 to 2, angled inwards below 
end of cell; an orange streak on middle of vein 1; some orange on termen in submedian interspace; 
fringe orange with a row of slight brown spots from apex to vein 2. An Indian species, the type without 
precise locality, but recorded from Bombay; also from Lower Burma. 
A. albimixta spec. nov. (19 i). Smaller than vesta Swinh., the ground colour of forewing being albimixta. 
whitish grey or leaden grey, showing especially at base and along the outer edges of the lines; the 
space between subbasal and inner lines, a broad median fascia, and the clouding before subterminal line 
dark fuscous; the outline of the reniform stigma is also whitish; the markings of the forewing and 
the white hindwing do not differ materially from vesta ; but on the underside the dull yellow area of hind¬ 
wing is more extensive; head, palpi, and thorax dark grey more picked out with whitish grey; the tibiae 
and tarsi dark grey with the joints whitish. Described from a $ taken in November 1898 by A. S. Meek 
at Milne Bay, British New Guinea. 2 other and 1 <$ have the whiter scaling replaced by leaden 
grey. 
A. dohertyi spec. nov. (19i). Forewing pale grey; the basal area, terminal area, and space on dohertyi, 
inner margin below vein 2 suffused with pale olive fuscous; a blackish dentate-edged band before inner line 
and a similar but more definite one before subterminal line; stigmata and markings as in vesta: hindwing 
with the yellow strips of termen beyond the black border meeting at end of vein 2 in an evident 
angle, instead of being rounded off: the underside of hindwing agrees with vesta in having the yel¬ 
lowish area restricted and dull; the paler head and thorax agree better with albimixta. Still smaller than 
albimixta, expanding only 26 mm. 1 $ from Tenimber, June-July 1892 (W. Doherty). 
A. latipennis Walk. (19 h). Differs from nectens, to which it is allied, by the much greyer fore- latipcnnis. 
wing, with a blackish costal patch beyond the subbasal line, and a prominent black suffusion before 
subterminal, extending from costa to below middle; also with a diffuse black median shade; hindwing 
with the band beyond the cell narrower and tinged with rufous. Penang and Lower Burma. The types 
both of this and the preceding species were $$; it is probably only a form of nectens. 
A. velans Walk. Forewing dark brown with slight grey suffusion and dusted with blackish; velans. 
inner and outer lines double; the inner waved, the outer bent outwards below costa, then denticulate, 
oblique below vein 4, preceded by a black mark in submedian interval; subterminal line greyish, intern- 
