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ARCTIAD^. 



Gonus ASURIDIA, uov. 



Type, ./. c<imipivfa. 



Proboscis ubortod, iiiimite ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frona ; 

 antonnaa of male with brittles und cilia; tibiaj with the spurs moderate; 

 ab<lonien clotiied with rough hair. F<jre wing rather narrow, the costa arched ; 

 vein 2 from middle of cell, oblique ; '6 from near angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; from 

 below uppi-r angle; 7,8,9 stalked; 10, 11 stalked. 1 1 anastomosim^ with 12. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3 from close to angle; 5 

 from well above angle ; t>, 7 stalked ; 8 from towards angle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with the cilia black carnipicta. 



B. Fore wing with tlie cilia yellowish. 



a. Hind wing p.ile crimson nigrirndiata. 



b. Ilind wing fuscous black mc(aph(ea. 



875. Asuridia carnipicta. 



Ammatho carnipicta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 342 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Ilet. p. 308. 



S . H(.ad, thorax, and abdomen greyish tinged with crimson, tlie 

 tegular and patagia brighter crimson. Tore wing crimson ; the 



costal edge black to the 

 antomedial Hue, which is 

 excurved from costa to sub- 

 median fold, where it is 

 slightly angled inwards ; 

 the medial line oblique from 

 costa to median uervure, 

 then sinuous, the costal edge 

 black from it to apex ; a 



Fig. 324. — Asuridia carnipicta, (^ . 



discoidal black spot ; the postmedial line arising from nearly the 

 same poiut on costa as the medial line, strongly angled beyond the 

 cell, then retracted to lower angle and excurved again above inner 

 margin, a series of black streaks on veins 2-7 from it to near 

 termen, the uppermost forking on veins 7, 8, 9 ; cilia black. Hind 

 wing pale crimson ; the cilia ochreous, fuscous at base towards 

 apex. 



Hah. China, Nankow Pass, 1 S type. Exp. 26 millim. 



876. Asuridia nigriradiata. 



Miltochrista nigriradiata, Hmpsn. Moths lud. iv. p. 501 (1896) ; Dudgeon, 

 J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. f. 15. 



$ . Head and thorax pink ; palpi and fore legs blackish ; meso- 

 thorax with paired black spots ; abdomen pale pink, i'ore wing 

 pink ; two l)lack points at base ; the costa streaked with black to 

 the antemcdial line, which is excurved from costa to submedian 

 fold, where it is strongly angled inwards, then angled outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a tstraighl obliciue medial line ; a discoidal spot ; the post- 

 medial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved and 

 excurved again above inner margin, a series of streaks on the veins 



