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3(5. Asura amabilis »i>. nov. 



S. Antenna, strougl}- pectinated, veins R-. R'. M' close together on both wings. 

 Body orange, here and there red, appendices also more or less washed with red ; 

 head with two black dots in mesial line, mcsothoracio tegnla with two spots, meso- 

 notum with one on each side, abdomen black above (base and tip excepted), at 

 sides, and at base below ; foretibia with a black dot, sitnated in a red patch, mid- 

 and hindtibiae with a red patch. 



Wings, n/jorc, orange yellow, hindwiug rather paler. — Forewing marked with 

 orange vermilion lines, irregnlar, three pairs, besides a marginal, a submarginal and 

 a basal line, the basal and submarginal ones often iuterrnpted, the three pairs 

 connected with one another at M and mostly also at SC ; snbmarginal line ending 

 in a larger costal spot, and joined to the marginal one by some vein-spots ; three 

 dots at base black, fringe brown.— Hind wing feebly reddish at edge ; fringe brown 

 anteriorly. 



Underside : the markings of the forewing indicated. 



?. Antenna with short pectination. The lines of the forewing somewhat 

 thinner, submarginal one always separated into spots. 



Length of forewing : 21 to 24 mm. 



Hab. Isabel, Solomon Is., 4. vi. to U. vii. I'.tOl (A. S. Meek), a series of both 

 sexes ; tyjje ; d. 



37. Meteugoa fasciosa sp. nov. 

 (J. Head, second and third palpal segments, thorax above (except middle of 

 meso- and metanotum), part of the legs, especially the anterior tibia and tarsus, knee 

 and first tarsal segment of mid- and hindleg, base of proximal abdominal steruites 

 white, antenna also powdered with white scales ; rest nf body and appendices 

 greyish black. 



Wings, above. — Forewing white ; a snbbasal band between costal margin and 

 SM^ two parallel bands, almost straight, nearly at right angles to hinder margin, 

 the first jnst proximaily of M-', a cell-dot between these bands, another upon D-, a 

 broader band beyond cell, broadly connected with a marginal band at W, at angle 

 and at costal margin, greyish black, costal margin thinly edged with the same 

 colour. — Hindwing dark mouse grey, with an ill-defined white area, which varies in 

 extent. 



Underside similar to upper, but the white areas of the forewing (except sub- 

 marginal white spots) shaded with mouse grey. 



? . Differs from S in the white area of the hindwing occupying the greater 

 part of the wing, the external and abdominal dark mouse grey border about 2 mm. 

 in width, wliile the costal border is very thin. On the underside the white colour is 

 not or scarcely shaded over with grey on the Iiindwing, a mouse grey stigma is more 

 or less obviously connected with the costal border by an oblique bar, and there is a 

 white subapical spot in the external border of the wing. 

 Length of forewing : 14 to 18 mm. 



Hab. Isabel, Solomon Is., 4. vi. to 9. vii. 1001 (A. S. Meek). A series of 

 both sexes. 



This species has no conical prominence on frons. 



