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AUTOBA. By W. Warren. 
coccidi- A. coccidiphaga Hmps. (22 m). Forewing ochreous white tinged with rufous; the costal edge red- 
phaga. brown towards base; cellspot fuscous; the lines brown rising from black costal dots; inner line sinuous, in¬ 
distinct; median line bent on median vein; outer line, slightly edged outwardly Avith white, oblique to vein 6, 
indented on cell fold, and incurved below vein 4; the costa beyond it redbrown; subterminal lin e fault, 
whitish, waved, inangled on both folds, with some black marks on the outer edge towards costa; hindwing 
albidiscata. similar; in tlie ab. albidiscata ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the dark cellspot of forewing is overlaid with 
brunneo- white scales; another form, ab. brunneopartita ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hynps.) has the median area of forewing, except 
partita, towards costa, and the basal area of hindwing except along costa and inner margin, suffused with chocolate brown. 
Puttalam, Ceylon. Larva pinkish or greenish; feeding on various Coccids, such as Lecanium and Pulvi- 
naria, living in a case formed of their debris; the case of the young larva being formed of a single 
scale, to which additions are made as required; the anterior end of the case with a foursided valve. 
vestina. A. vestina Swinh. (22m). Forewing white; a black costal dot near base; lines black; the inner 
bent outwards at costa and outwardly diffused below it, becoming obsolete towards inner margin; diffused 
streaks of reddish and blackish scales in the folds between inner and median lines; some red irroration in 
end of cell and a black bar on discocellular; median line bent in middle; outer line forming a black 
bar from costa, then becoming'pale rufous and indistinct, dentate on veins 4 and 3, then inwardly oblique; 
• costa towards apex brownish; a subterminal row of small black spots, the terminal area beyond them 
.brownish, except at apex; hindwing white; a brownish median line visible on inner marginal area with 
a small black spot on the margin; outer line punctiform; terminal area ochreous; the subterminal line 
white, with a few black scales on its outer edge. Des'cri'bed from a single $ from Labuan, N. Borneo. 
rufipunda. A. rufipuncta Trnr. Forewing grey thickly dusted with redbrown; a slight sinuous sub- 
basal line from costa to submedian fold; inner and median lines redbrown, inwardly oblique, the median 
defined by whitish externally and by yellowish at the discocellular; outer line redbrown, inwardly oblique 
and slightly sinuous; subterminal whitish, oblique; hindwing with the postmedian and apical areas fuscous 
brown; two redbrown median lines and a whitish subterminal, obsolete towards costa. Townsville, Queensland. 
sphragidota. A. sphragidota Trnr. (22 i). Forewing grey white; inner line sinuous, blackish, inangled on vein 1; 
median line outwardly oblique to the large black cell spot, then bent inwards; space between these lines 
suffused with rufous; outer line oblique, brown towards costa, then grey, inangled on both folds; a semi¬ 
circular blackish mark on costa before apex; subterminal line grey, denticulate, inangled on the submedian 
fold; black terminal points; hindwing with traces of two waved grey outer lines. Townsville, Queensland. 
subcinerea. A. subcinerea Snell. (= iothicta Meyr.). Forewing creamy white, dusted with dark brown and redbrown; 
lines dark; the inner obliquely incurved from below costa to submedian fold, inangled on vein 1; cellspot 
dark; median line oblique from costa to vein 6 well beyond cell, then inwardly oblique; area between it and 
outer line whitish; outer line brown, oblique from costa to vein 7, then crenulate, externally defined 
by some whitish; subterminal line denticulate, whitish, with a row of small blackish spots on its outer 
edge; hindwing similar; fringe yellowish white, tinged with rufous at tips. Snellen’s subcinerea from Ce¬ 
lebes; Meyrick’s iothicta from Port Moresby, British New Guinea. 
curvata. A. curvata Lucas (21 i). Forewing white with some brown irroration to outer line and finely pencilled 
with brown except at costa and in postmedian area; inner line starting as an oblique black striga from costa, 
then sinuous, very indistinct; cellspot blackish, with an oblique brown striga from costa above it; outer 
line brown, strongly excurved below costa, then very oblique; an oblique brown shade from apex, 
with two black points on it and a minute dentate redbrown mark; a dark terminal line, obsolete at each end; 
hindwing white, the basal and terminal areas finely pencilled wit 1 i brown; a fine brown median line, 
brunneata. and denticulate outer line, excurved at middle; a black point above tornus; in the ab. brunneata ab. nov. 
(— ab. 1 Hmps.) (22 i) the median area of fore wing except at costa, and the basal half of hindwing except 
along costa and inner margin are suffused with chocolate brown. Queensland and New Guinea. 
dispar. A. dispar spec. nov. (24 c). Almost exactly like A. curvata Lucas, but slightly smaller, the S white, 
the $ grey; beyond the outer line at vein 5 a dark grey sinuous line runs to inner margin, forming small pro¬ 
jections on veins 4, 3, and 1, and strongly incurved between 3 and 1; a row of small black subterminal 
cotorata. spots; in the ab. colorata ab. nov. (24 c) the outer line and the sinuous line beyond it are dark brown and the 
space between them more or less filled in with brown; in the corresponding aberration of curvata, ab. brunneata, 
