( 20:5 ) 



bhaivana absent, except on the veins. The subcostal iiervules on tlic uii|]ei-si(li' ol' 

 the hindwing are in marmorea white just outside the stridulatorv patrh of thick 

 scales, while in bhatvana they are not, or seldom, white there. 



In the Tring Museum from ,Iava, Sumatra, Borneo, and the 8han .States. 



K.J. 

 Asota Hiibner. 



Pluihicm, Xncliw, Linuc', Synt. Nat. ed. X. p. 512 (17.58). 



Nuctmi, Fabricius, Sijxt. Eiit. p. .090 (1775). 



Phiilaena Biunhyj-, Cramer, Pup. Ex. III. p. 175 (178(1). 



JJipocrila vulgaris Hiibner, Srimuil. E.r. Schmitt. t. 19l) (ISDG). 



A.iol.i Hiibner, Vers. hell. Schmett. p. 1(14 (1822) [_Type : Jaraiia (Cram.)]. 



Hi/p.s,i Hiibner, I.e. p. 172 (1822) [Ti/pe : .silranclm (Cram.)] ; Walk., Lej,. fTrl. IS. }[. II. p. 444. 



n. 65 (1854) {Ex p.) : Moore, Cat. Lrp. In^. .1/ks. E. I. C. II. p. 292 (1850) ; Butl., Tr. E,it. 



Sor. Loml. p. 315 (1875) (Exp.): Snell., Tijdsrhr. r. Enl. XXXI. p. 122 (1888) (Ex p.) : 



Swinh., Cat. Lep. lid. 0.cf. I. p. 85 (1892) : Kirby, Cat. lid. I. ]). :is8 (1892) ; Hamps., Mnth^ 



i,f I, III. I. p. 498 (1892) (Ex p.). 

 Damalis Hiibner, I.e. p. 172 (1882) [T<ipe : raricar (F.)] ; Swinh., /.,■. p. 9:? (1892). 

 Aqaiiais Boisduval, Voij. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 248 (\%?,->) (Norn, mid.) ; Snell., I.e. XXII. p. 77 (1879) 



(Exp.) ; Kirby, I.e. p. 385 (1892) (Excl. of imularh Boisd.). 

 ffypsa. Group 5. //ypsa, Walker, /..-. p. 449 (1854). 

 Hypsa. Gi-oup 0. Asjia Walker, I.e. p. 452 (18.')4) [Type: paplms (F.)]. 

 Hypm. Group 7. Dninalis, Walker, I.e. p. 453 (1854). 



Hypsa. Group 10. PrtfiUa Walker, I.e. p. 457 (1854) \_Typr : plaijiata Wlk.]. 

 Hypsa. Subgenus Damulis, Butler, Tr. Enl. Sne. Lniid. p. 319 (1875). 

 Hypsa. Subgenus Ayamiis, Butler, I.e. p. 322 (1875) (Excl. of imularis Boisd.). 

 Ilypsa. Subgenus Agnpr, Butler, I.e. p. 322 (1875) (ExH. at' eMnrnpyga Wlk.). 

 Pet(aia, Butler, I.e. p. 326 (1875) : Swinh., Le. I. p. 95 (1892) ; Kirby, I.e. p. 385 (1892). 

 Neoclifea, Butler, /.,-. p. 328 (1875) (Exp.) ; Kirby, /...-. p. 39IJ (1892) (Exp.). 

 At/ape, Swinhoe, I.e. p. 93 (1892) (Ex p.) ; Kirby, /..-. p. 387 (1892) (Exp.). 

 Aiitiehera Snellen, I.e. XXXVIII. p. 180 (1896) [Trjpe : eontorta (Auriv.)]. 



I unite under the (eldest) name of sinoUi ill), all tho.se Agetndldae which are 

 distinguished by the following principal characters : — 



Fold in front of the cavity on forewing with one enlarged carinate scale ; hind- 

 wing above with an elongate spot of thick scales just behind costal nervm"e in the 

 middle of the wing ; the last but one joint of the antennae shorter than the last 

 but two, and at the utmost as long as broad, mostly shorter; third joint of palpi 

 seldom a little .shorter, mo,stly as long as or longer than the second. 



In neuration the species of Asota come \'ery near Neochera ewjenia (t'ram.). 



The "genera" Baiiialis Hb., Hypsn ilb., Asim, Wlk., Petalia Wlk., and 

 Antichera Snell. I cannot keep separate from A.vota Hb. ; the types of these 

 " genera " differ from one another only in the pattern, sometimes in the shape, of 

 the wings, anil in secondary se.xual characters, as in fact, do nearly every two species 

 of Af/anaidac. Under Asota Hb. we have therefore united all Aganaids which do 

 not belong to Spilobotys Butl. = Aejajje Snell., A(/annis Boisd., Pcrldroine Wlk., 

 Anar/niei, Wlk., Enplocia Hb., Dii/ama Aloore, and Soiiimeria Hb. The number 

 of the species will in this paper be consideralily reduced, as our series of specimens 

 prove to us that many of the " species " are only geographical races and not distinct. 



Structurally the variety within the genus Asota Hb. is nearly as great as it 

 is in respect to pattern. I gi\e here a general account of the structural characters 

 of Asota, and shall make some more remarks under the various species. 



As in the other Aganaidae, the front of the hi^ad is in Asota Hh. slightly 

 widened behind, is anteriorly faintly convex in the iiiicldli-, and geuei-ally a little 

 broader than each eye is liigli. 



