748 REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



costa gently arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; 

 black ; markings orange ; a moderately broad transverse spot near 

 base, sometimes reaching inner margin, and nearly costa ; two 

 variable opposite spots about f, sometimes touching margins ; an 

 elongate transverse spot in middle, rarely connected with inner 

 margin ; a slender irregular slightly curved fascia from ^ of costa 

 to | of inner margin, more or less dilated above ; a hindmarginal 

 band of three moderate spots : cilia blackish. Hindwings orange ; 

 a moderately broad hindmarginal blackish band, sometimes consi- 

 derably narrowed beneath ; a moderate blackish fascia from costa 

 before middle to anal angle, rarely absent ; cilia blackish. 



Queensland ; Glen Innes (3,000 feet), Newcastle, Sydney, and 

 Wollongoug, New South Wales ; Ferns haw, Victoria ; from Sep- 

 tember to April, common. 



86. As. cervicalis, Walk. 



(Asura cervicalis, Walk. Bomb. 484.) 



£. 28-34 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax black, face and 

 collar orange. Abdomen black, with dorsal and lateral orange 

 stripes. Legs blackish. Forewings very elongate-triangular, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin rounded, rather strongly 

 oblique ; blackish, with five moderate irregular orange spots ; first 

 towards base above inner margin ; second above middle of disc ; 

 third above middle of inner margin; fourth in disc at I; fifth above 

 anal angle, more or less bisected ; cilia blackish. Hindwings 

 blackish ; a large transverse orange discal blotch in middle, nearly 

 reaching middle of costa, and less nearly anal angle ; cilia blackish. 



Sydney, New South Wales (Mr. Masters states formerly common, 

 but not of late years) ; Melbourne, Victoria ; also from Tasmania ; 

 common. 



87. As. habrotis, n. sp. 



(J. 21 mm. Differs from A. cervicalis only as follows : Head, 

 palpi, and abdomen wholly orange. Wings considerably narrower. 

 Forewings with two median spots almost touching. 



