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oblique broad slate-grey band, and a similar bent postmedian one from which 

 proceed to termeu a number of semi-coalescent slate-grey streaks, fringe blackish. 

 Hindwiug pale salmon-rose. 



Length of forewing : 17 mm. 



Hab. Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mountains, Dntch New Guinea 2000- 

 3000 ft., September 1910 (A. S. Meek). 



278. Asura avernalis bougainvillei subsp. nov. 



¥. Differs from a. acernaUs in the slate-grey bands of the forewings being 

 much wider and almost coalescent, so that the scarlet ground colour is only visible 

 in the form of patches and spots on the inner two-thirds of wing, not in the form 

 of bands, and the outer scarlet band and three terminal patches much reduced ; the 

 scarlet also is much mixed with yellovv. The blackish slate outer half of hindwing 

 is reduced to less than half its width. 



S. Differs on forewings iu same manner, and the hiudwings are paler slate- 

 grey. 



Hab. Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands, May 1904 (A. S. Meek). 



279. Asura avernalis isabellina subsp. nov. 



S ■ Differs from a. acernaUs iu having the whole abdomen salmon-pink ; and in 

 the forewing being entirely blackish slate wiih twelve small orange-scarlet spots. 

 Basal and abdominal portions of hindwing yellowish pink. 



Ilah. Islets near Isabel, Solomon Islands (Cayley Webster). 



280. Asura avernalis floridensis subsp. nov. 



?. Differs from a. acernaUs on the forewings in the slate-grey bands being 

 much narrower, so that the ground colour appears as five broad orange-scarlet 

 bands. On the hindwing the slate-grey outer half is absent, only three slate-grey 

 snbterminal spots and a dark fringe remaining. 



Hub. Florida Island, Solomon Islands, Jnne 1901 (A. S. Meek). 



281. Asura metascota analogus subsp. nov. 



cJ. This bears the same relation to m. metascota that a. Jloriclensis does to 

 a. acernaUs. 



Differs from m. metascota ou the forewing in the paler yellowish scarlet 

 ground colour and in having the black replaced by slate-grey and reduced to a pair 

 of coalescent antemedian and a similar pair of postmedian bands. The hindwing is 

 reddish buff with a wide slate-grey margin, not entirely sooty black. 



The ? is also more yellowish on forewing aud sLiows the same differences on 

 hindwing. 



Ilah. Isabel Island, Solomon Islands, .June 4~— July 9, lOOl (A. S. Meek). 



282. Asura metascota feminina subsp. nov. 



Has in the i the black on forewing much reduced and ground colour orange- 

 (scarlet, while in the ? the black markings are wider, so that both sexes are alike, 

 //a*. Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, Febrnary 1908 (A. S. Meek). 



