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edge of the white band in rufobrunnea {arabella) extends somewhat differently from tlie median line of prae- 
stans, I am inclined to consider these two to be separate species. 
A. poliopasta Hfnps. (27 b) is very similar to praestans. Forewing dark brown as far as the last interior poliniiasta. 
line. Median area dusted bluish green. The black median line somewhat nearer behind the cell. Exterior line 
double, dentate, filled with pale green, from the darker red-brown apical spot somewhat steeper to the inner 
margin. Marginal area as dark as the base. The yellow apical spot of the hindwing extends at the costal margin 
less far inward. ^ 64 mm. Cameroon. 
A. radama Fldr. (27 a) resembles the two preceding species. Body and basal third of forewing blackish radama. 
brown. Interior line yet in the dark area, light reddish brown, undulate, vertical. Median area violettish grey 
(in Felder’s figure green), dark brown at the costal margin, 2 black dots at the cross-vein. The outward border 
of the median area is formed by the double black dentate median line. A red-brown spot before the aT)ex as 
in poliopasta. The double exterior line vertical, bent inward from vein 4. An irregular submarginal line is marked 
by the somewhat less dark margin. Hindwing as in pjoliopasta. — radamatia Strd. is without the two white mdamana. 
spots behind the median line at vein 3, the median area is bluish green. — radamella Strd. is similar, but the radainella. 
median area is red-brown, without any violet or green colouring. 70 mm. Madagascar. 
A. intercisa Wkr. (21 c). Body dark brown. Forewing dark chocolate brown at the base, a similar spot intcrcim. 
at the costal margin near the apex. Interior line yellowish brown, edged with black outside, undulate, pointedly 
inward at the median vein and vem 1 . Reniform macula edged with black, flat. Exterior line blackish, edged 
light outside next to the apical spot, outward as far as vein 5, then bent round and vertically to the anal angle. 
From a reddish spot above the reniform macula a faded reddish line extends around this macula and then from 
vein 5 parallel to the exterior line. Median area ochreous as far as the median line, more red-brown behind 
it. A black triangle at vein 5 outside at the exterior line. Hindwing blackish browm, the yellow apical spot 
not so undulately edged inside as hitherto. 50—52 mm. West Africa. 
A. stumpffi Saalm. (27 c) and the two following species were placed far away from illustrata Wkr. by stionpffi. 
Hampson, although they show a great resemblance to it. Body greyish brown, forewing red-brown, the lines 
blackish. The interior one vertical, double, undulate, filled with light. Three black dots at the cross-vein. Median 
line dentate, excurved behind the cell, then straight inward, excurved again from the submedian fold. Exterior 
line almost parallel with it. A rusty brown spot behind it at the costal margin shaped as in illustrata, narrowly 
rusty red above the anal angle, traversed by the dark submarginal line which is otherwise not recognizable. 
Hindwuig blackish brown, lighter at the base, with a white apical spot, cj 52 mm. Described from Madagascar, 
but there is also a specimen at hand from the Tanganyica District (from the Senckenberg Museum). 
A. imperatrix Saalm. (26 f) is a beautiful large sj^ecies. Body and forewing greyish brown. Interior line impcrairLv. 
straight, undulate, somewhat oblique, edged somewhat white below the cell. A small brown ring in the cell 
and two at the cross-vein. Median line very indistinct, excurved behind the cell. A large white spot near the 
apex with a greyish brown zigzag line, similar to illustrata. A series of white, brown-edged lunae extends from 
it to inner margin. Behind it black streaks on a rusty brown ground, this area is narrow at veiir 5, reaching 
almost the margin at the inner margin. Margin narrowly whitish grey. Hindwing blackish lu’own, narrowly 
white at the margin, a greyish white triangle, long-haired, extends from the inner margin on the whole length 
with the apex to the centre of the wing. 80 mm. Madagascar. 
A. jamesoni Prout also resembles illustrata. Body and forewing light-brown as far as the exterior line jamcsonl. 
with a violet reflection. Interior line dark, indistinct, outward from ^4 costal margin, less oblique below the 
cell. Reniform macula indicated b}" a dot above and below. Apical spot white with brown patches, relatively 
larger, but narrower than in illustrata. Exterior line undulate, better parallel with the margin than in illustrata, 
finely edged outside with white and rusty yellow. Submarginal line absent. Margin narrowly pale violet. Hind¬ 
wing greyish brown with a white apical spot. $ 64 mm. Congo, Gold Coast. 
A. cyanobathra Prout. Body and forewing dark brown, with an intense violet gloss in the basal area, cyanohuthra 
Interior line somewhat paler than the ground-colour, straight, somewhat undulate. Reniform macixla as in 
intercisa (27 c), but less distinct on the dark ground. Exterior line feeble, similar to leucopera (27 d), the veins 
behind it with pale blotches. Submarginal line dark, double, similar to leucopera, but nearer to the margin 
and without the apical spot. Hindwing with a yellow apical spot, shaped similarly to the white one of leucopera. 
^ 45 mm. Cameroon. 
A. chrysopera Drc. (27 b). Body and forewing red-brown. Interior line threefold, blackish, undulate, chrysopcra. 
somewhat oblique. A black streak at the cross-vein. Median line black, dentate, far excurved behind the cell, 
then to the middle of the inner margin. A semicircular bluish white spot at the costal margin before the apex. 
The dentate exterior line begins at the interior edge of that spot, then parallel Avith the margin. Submarginal 
line indistinct, parallel, uniformly dentate. Hindwing blackish brown, margin broadly yellow as far as vein 4 
downward, red-brown at the anal angle. nnn- East Africa. 
A. dejeani Bsd. orea Mab.) (27 c). Paler red-brown than chrysopera. Interior line finely double. The dejcani. 
other lines as in chrysopera. Insignificantly lighter in the exterior median area behind the reniform macula. The 
