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hindwing pure white; the terminal area sometimes suffused with brown. An Indian species occurring in the 
Punjab, Sikkim, Madras, and Ceylon. 
A. atriciliata Hmps. (22 k). Forewing creamy white with slight rufous irroration; a black costal point atrkiliala. 
near base; lines red brown; inner line incurved in cell, then oblicpie, with black points at costa and in 
cell; a black cellspot; median line from a black costal dot, oblique to just beyond cell, inangled on the fold, 
incurved below vein 4; outer line oblique from costa, with a red brown spot beyond it, parallel to median 
line; subterminal obscure, white, waved, with black points along its outer edge; terminal line rufous; fringe, 
except at base, thickly irrorated with black; hindwing similar; a median line of rufous and black scales. 
Described from a rj from Singapore. 
A. vinotincta Hmps. (22 k). Fore wing white, sprinkled and suffused with purplish red, especially to- vinotinda. 
wards tornus; the costal edge pale redbrown; inner line redbrown, inwardly defined by whitish, angled out¬ 
wards below costa, then oblique, slightly waved; median line oblique to cell lunule, thence incurved; outer line 
defined externally by white, oblique outwards to vein 6, inwards below 4; subterminal pale, with black 
points on its outer edge, excurved at middle, obsolescent below; hindwing whitish at base and along costa, 
the rest suffused with purplish red; a double oblique median line filled in with whitish in lower half; 
the rest as in forewing. Ceylon. Larva coccidiphagous, feeding on a species of Lecanium, forming a covering 
of their scales. 
A. poliochroa Hmps. (22 d). Fore wing grey, tinged with reddish brown; the costal edge pale rufous; poliocliroa. 
a black costal dot near base; the lines brown; the inner curved, from a black costal dot; median line, 
from black costal dot, excurved to vein 4 just beyond cell, then inwardly oblique; outer line oblique from a 
black costal dot to vein 7, then denticulate, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line pale, indistinct, with 
black points on its outer edge; hindwing with similar markings; in the ab. rufifascia ab. nov. ( = ab. 1 Hmps.) rufifuscia. 
the inner half of median area is suffused with redbrown. Described from 2 from Singapore, Malay 
peninsula. 
A. pulvinariae Oliff. (24 c). Forewing pale glossy silvery grey, obscurely irrorated with brownish pulvinariae. 
ochreous; the lines brownish ochreous, excurved below costa, then oblique inwards; the outer 
line incurved below vein 4, and with a brownish ochreous mark beyond it on costa; subterminal line a row 
of black points becoming confluent towards apex to which it. is outbent; fringe reddish ochreous; hindwing 
pale fuscous grey, ochreous white at base and along inner margin. Larva yellowish white; the head and thorac¬ 
ic plate redbrown; feeding on the eggs, adult females, and ovisacs of the salt bush scale, Pulvinaria maskelli. 
Murray River, Wentworth, New South Wales. 
A. alabastrata spec. nov. (24 b). Forewing pure white; costa with three short oblique black strigae, alabastrata. 
from which the very faint lines arise; the inner sharply angled on subcostal vein, then incurved and oblique 
inwards; the median and outer roundly bent below costa, then oblique; a small black dot in cell and faint 
grey spot at end; four black subterminal dots above middle; costa slightly brownish before apex; fringe 
white with faint grey tinge; hindwing with two lines and some small black subterminal dots; underside of fore¬ 
wing slightly tinged with grey brown, darkest along termen; cell spot and outer line grey; hindwing wholly 
white; face greyish; thorax and abdomen white. 1 $ from Lower Burma. Type in Tring Museum. 
A. glaucochroa Hmps. (221). Forewing grey suffused with rufous, thickly black dusted; inner line glaucochroa. 
whitish, incurved below submedian fold; median line whitish, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, 
then slightly incurved; outer line whitish, excurved at middle; subterminal whitish, obscure, sinuous; hindwing 
whitish, tinged and irrorated with reddish brown especially on terminal half. Queensland. 
A. silicula Swinh. (22 m). Forewing white thickly dusted with rufous, the terminal area suffused silicula. 
with rufous; the costal edge white; lines brown; the subbasal and inner from black costal dots, sinuous; cell- 
spot blackish and two dots in middle of cell; median line bent in middle, slightly white edged externally; 
outer line also edged with white, oblique from a black costal dot to vein 6, then denticulate, oblique 
>below vein 4; subterminal line whitish, with a row of small black dots on its outer edge, indented on both 
folds; fringe rufous with fine pale striae; hindwing similar. An Indian species taken at Karachi, Sind, and 
the Kangra Valley and Allahabad in the Punjab; in the subspecies saturata subsp. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) saturate. 
from Queensland the fringes of both wings are deep rufous at middle and pink at the tips. 
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