290 POAPIIILID.E. 



Family P O A P II I L I D zE. 



Genus ARASADA, Moore. 

 Arnsada, Moore, Lcp. Ceylon, iii. 188. 



Aeasada FASCIOSA, n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 21.) 



Ochreous-red. Fove wing crossed with inwardly-oblique red and broken yellow fasciae 

 from below the costal border ; a large pure white spot with black edge at end of the cell : 

 hind wing with more regularly defined red and narrower subbasal, discal, and outer yellow 

 lunular fascia; ; a black dot at end of cell. Costal edge of fore wing pure white. Both 

 wings with marginal blacli points, and the red fasciae clouded with dusky brown interspersed 

 with a few minute black scales. Collar pure white ; fore legs brownisli above. Underside 

 pale brownish-ochreous, with an oblique discal and submargiual bro^^ nish fascia. Body and 

 legs beneath brownish-ochreous. 



Expanse If inch. 



Ilab. Darjiling. lu coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Aeasada fraticeculata, n. sp. 



Pale brownish-ochreous. Wings with a few scattered minute black scales. Pore wing 

 with a very small dentate white spot at end of the cell ; traces cf a brownish diffused 

 recurved discal line, and a more-defined recur^•ed submarginal series of pale inner-boidered 

 black dentate spots, and a marginal row of spots : hind wing with a slight black-scaled spot 

 at end of the cell, a black-scaled pale outer-bordered discal wavy line, a dentated submarginal 

 slight fascia, and marginal spots. Body speckled with black scales ; head, tip of palpi, and 

 fore legs dark brown. 



Expanse ^% inch. 



Hah. Calcutta (November). In coll. Dr. vStaudinger. 



Much resembles the Ceylonese A. 2>>JTaHformit<. 



Aeasada ruptifascia, n. sp. 



Pale purplish cinereous-ochreous. Wings with a very few minute black scales upon 

 the basal area. Fore wing with a very indistinct blackish inwardly-oblique recurved wavy 

 antemedial and postmedial line, and more-distinct blackish-scaled submarginal fascia, which 

 latter is dentate anteriorly and diflfused posteriorly ; marginal points black ; cell-spot small, 

 indistinct, whitish-centred : hind wing with a prominent black-speckled white-centred 

 slightly wavy duplex discal line, and a broad black-speckled outer fascia, which latter is 

 mterrupted across its middle ; marginal points black. Cilia posteriorly and of the abdom- 

 inal margin whitisli. Body slightly black-scaled ; head, palpi, and fore legs above brown. 



Expanse -^q inch. 



JIah. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



