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A. albicosta Hmps. (23 g). Forewing rufous tinged with flesh pink with slight blackish irroration; albicosta. 
the costa white, narrowing to a point near apex; a waved yellowish inner line; outer line dentate, outwardly 
defined by yellowish, incurved at discal fold, and strongly below vein 4; subterminal yellowish, waved, ex- 
curved at middle, with black dots on its outer edge; a terminal series of small black lunules, inwardly defined 
by yellowish; hindwing rufous with black irroration; outer line pure white, slightly defined on each side by 
fiery red, somewhat lunulate, very slightly angled outwards at vein 6, then oblique; a subterminal series 
of black dots; a terminal series of black lunules. Rangoon, Burma; Singapore. 
A. pyraliformis Moore. Forewing pale rufous irrorated with black; the costa whitish, narrowing to a pyralifor- 
point at apex; a slight yellowish inner line, excurved below median nervure, incurved at vein 1; a white mls ‘ 
black-ringed spot on discocellular; outer line yellowish, minutely waved, angled inwards on cell fold, and oblique 
below 4 to middle of inner margin; a subterminal series of faint yellowish lunules defined on outer side by 
black points from below costa to cell fold and above inner margin, excurved at middle, then oblique; a terminal 
series of small triangular black spots; hindwing pale rufous with dark irroration; two black discoidal spots; 
outer line white, from below costa to inner margin, oblique and minutely waved; a pale waved subterminal 
line, angled inwards at veins 6 and 2, with a row of fuscous spots on its outer edge. Ceylon. Larva with 
the head large, and produced upwards; green with a yellowish dorsal band and lateral streaks; stigmata 
yellow; head and thoracic segments at sides irrorated with black; second segment with lateral purple brown 
streaks; a blackish line between 5th and 6th segments, and blackish lateral marks on terminal segments; 
pupates in a rolled up piece of leaf. 
A. javatiica Hmps. (23g) (= pyraliformis Hynps. part, nec Moore). Forewing ochreous tinged with ruf- javanica. 
ous, slightly irrorated with black; inner line waved, brownish, from below costa to inner margin; cellspot double 
black; outer line brownish, lunulate, inangled at cell fold, oblique inwards below vein 4; subterminal line 
with brownish shades on each side and small black dots on its outer edge; terminal black dots; hindwing very 
similar. The type, a from Java. 
A. mollis Warr. (24i). Forewing pale yellowish ochreous; the costal edge whitish ochreous, crossed byfive mollis. 
inwardly oblique dull reddish bands; the two before middle narrow and wavy; the median thicker, 
touching the cellspot, which is large and round, dark grey with a paler centre; of the two beyond middle 
the outer is strongly zigzag and angled outwards just below middle; terminal area pale grey, with lunulate 
inner edge, which is a little darker and projects inwards between veins 5 and 6; a row of black terminal 
spots; fringe yellowish grey; hindwing with a straight pale yellow median line, the basal area dark grey towards 
the line and ochreous at base; terminal area grey, as in forewing, preceded by a curved and waved grey 
band; a slight dark cellspot; head, collar, and forelegs black brown; thorax and base of dorsum pale ochreous; 
rest of dorsum yellower and greyer, showing the pale line of hindwings before the anal segment. Described 
from a single <$ from Penang. 
53. Genus : Metasacla Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, slender, the second segment fringed with 
scales in front and behind at extremity, the third short, porrect; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax and 
abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests, except a minute one on basal segment of dorsum; forewing elongate 
triangular, the termen obliquely curved, crenulate; hindwing with termen crenulate; neuration of forewing as 
in Arasada ; in hindwing 3, 4 are not stalked. Type M. polycesta Trnr. 
M. polycesta Trnr. Forewing yellowish suffused with rufous and sparsely irrorated with black; the veins polycesta. 
streaked with grey; the costal area whitish, narrowing to a point before apex; inner line whitish from 
below costa, erect and nearly straight; orbicular a white point; reniform narrow, grey partly outlined 
in black; outer line brown, externally whitish, waved from below costa to vein 4, there angled outwards, 
then incurved and sinuous, followed by a pale grey patch reaching subterminal line from inner margin to vein 
3; subterminal white, dentate; a crenulate redbrown terminal line; hindwing similar. Australia; Queens¬ 
land and N. S. Wales. 
54. Genus: HypoMcta Trnr. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect upwards, the second segment slender 
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