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black forming four distinct patches on the costal edge, the costa 
itself having also one or two additional black spots towards the 
base; each branch of the first sub-marginal cell is black-scaled 
towards the middle and at the tip ; the stem has a few black 
scales on each side of the cross-vein ; the third long vein has a 
few black scales at the tip and near its base ; the fourth has two 
long black-scaled areas on its trunk, 
the upper branch of the second fork¬ 
cell also two, the lower branch one at 
the apex ; the fifth, two patches on its 
anterior branch and one at the apex of 
the posterior branch ; the sixth has a 
few black ones towards the base and a large number towards the 
apex ; the scales are mostly long and thin; the middle cross-vein 
about its own length from the supernumerary cross-vein, and 
the posterior cross-vein also about its own length distant from 
the mid cross-vein (Fig. 36, 4); fringe apparently all dark except 
the apex. , 
Legs brown, tarsi apically banded, white, and also the tips of 
the tibiae, which are pale ; fore ungues unequal, one large and 
double-toothed ; the last tarsal joint has six or seven large spines 
at its base ; other ungues simple. 
Palpi brown, a broad white band at the base, and a narrow 
white apex ; between the bands the palpus is almost black ; 
proboscis brown, apex yellowish-white, narrow, very pointed ; 
antennae banded brown and white, plume hairs silky brown. 
9 . The ungues of the 9 are equal and simple on all three 
legs. 
Habitat. —Italy (Grassi and Ficalbi); Spain (Macdonald); 
India (Cornwall) (?) ; Salisbury, Mashonaland (Marshall). 
Observations. —This species is represented in the collection by 
a single slide of head, wings, and legs sent by the describer of 
the species. Notes from the original description are therefore 
appended, although the wing-markings are sufficient to identify it : 
—“ Proboscis nearly black, but whitish at the tip. Palpi of the 9 
nearly as long as the proboscis, nearly black, with white rings at 
the junction of the second and third, and fourth and fifth, as well 
as the entire terminal, joint white. Nape black, with a median 
white tuft. Thorax with the dorsum browner at the sides, orna¬ 
mented towards the middle with white scales; pleurae grey. 
Legs with the femora brownish, those of the first pair not 
proximally dilated. The remainder of the joints brownish-black, 
Fig. 35. 
A. superpiclus (C). (X. 9.) 
