ASURA. 433 



2 . Fore wing with the ante- and postincdial bands usually 

 reduced to dentate lines and well separated ; a prominent dissoidal 

 spot. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas, Kangra (ITocJciiu/), 5 d' , 12; Sikhim 

 (Dadaeon), 2 2 ; Assam, Khasis, 1 <S ; Xilgiris (Lindsdi/, Hamj>son), 

 ] d ,^ 2 1 type cJtromatica; Sumatra (Forbes), 1 (S ; Java {Horsjield), 

 1 cJ type. Exp. 6 26, ? 30 millim. 



C. Fore wing of male with the costa turned over on upper 

 side and fringed with hair for a short distanne beyond 

 ■ middle ; the discocellulars bent upward to subcostal 

 nervure between \eins 5 and 6. 



a. Fore wing with the whole discal area occupied by a 



fuscous pati-li p]i(Poplaf-la,. 



b. Fore wing without fuscous patch cuncifurii. 



914:. Asura phaeoplagia, n. sp. (Plate XXX. fig. 4.) 



S . Head and thorax yellow ; shoulders and mesothorax with 

 black spots ; extremities of tibiae and tarsi black ; abdomen 

 blackish, gi'ey towards base. Fore wing yellow, with a large 

 fuscous patch occupying the greater part of wing, leaving the base 

 yellow to the antemedial line, which is retracted to costa ; a sub- 

 basal black spot ; the costal edge black towards base ; a fuscous 

 spot below the cell before the antemedial line ; yellow patches on 

 middle of costa and inner margin and on costa towards apex ; the 

 termen yellow, with projections from the fuscous patch at veins (5 

 and 4. Hind wing pale fuscous, yellowish towards base and inner 

 margin : the cilia yellow. 



Hub. Java, Mt. Arjuno {DoherUj), 3 (f, type. Exii. 18 millim. 



915. Asura cuneifera. 



Lyclene cuneifera, W'k. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 113 (18G2) ; Swinh. 

 "Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 1U2 ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 310. 



S . Yellow ; vertex of head, tegulse, and mesothorax with fuscous 

 spots ; pectus and abdomen whitish, the latter with the terminal 



half clothed with black hair. 

 Fore wing with fuscous points 

 at base of costa and cell ; 

 short subbasal streaks on costa 

 and in and below cell ; the 

 antemedial line angled in cell, 

 then oblique ; the medial line 



Fig. 344.— Asura ctuiciferard ■ h oblique, slightly angled ()U 



subcostal nervure, touching 

 the antemedial line in cell, then angled acutely outwards on median 

 nervure ; a very highly and irregularly dentate postmedial line, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique ; a series of 

 points beyond it, the point at vein 4 displaced towards termen; 

 cilia brownish at extremities. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Jiab. BouNF.o, Sarawak ( WaUacc), 1 d . E,vp. 20 millim. Type 

 in Mus. Oxon. 



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