•Ml' ARCTIAD.B. 



witli short oblique scarlet subbasal band from costa, joined bj' a 

 streak below eosta to the aiiteinedial band, wliich is oblique to 

 submediaii fold, where it is acutely angled and does not reach 

 inner nuirtrin ; a medial band with irregular edges and fuscous 

 maculate line on it, the band strongly angled below the cell and 

 connected by an obli(iuo streak with the terminal band, then 

 incurved; a "broad terminal band with dark line close to its inner 

 edge, exeurved to submedian told, where it is angled inwards ; 

 a subterminal series of fuscous spots, the spot above vein 5 

 extending to termen : cilia fuscous. Hind wing with the termen 

 slightly tinged witli red; cilia fuscous from apex to vein 2. 



Hub. Akc ; N. Guinea, Ka^anr {Doherly), 1 (S . Exji. 22 raillim. 



927. Asura reticulata. 



Ci/7n^ reticulata, Feld. Sitz. Akad. Wien, xliii. p. 3(1 (ISfil) ; Kirbj, Cat. 



■ Het. p. 300. 

 Bardne placens, Wlk. xxxi. 251 (18o4); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. 



p. 109, pi. iii. f. 15 ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 309. 

 Calligenia cydofa, Mevr. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 705 (188()) ; 



Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 309. 

 Bar.nne intrita, Svvinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 108, pi. iii. f. 23 (1892). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange tinged with crimson ; palpi 

 at sides, antenna?, a streak on vertex of head, edges of tegalae 

 and patagia, marks on thorax, and bands ou tibite fuscous. Eoro 

 Aving fuscous ; a yellow patch at base not reaching costa or inner 

 margin ; large yellow spots on costa before and after middle end in 

 end of cell ; crimson-tinged spots on inner margin before and after 

 middle, the former Avith a small spot above it ; a subterminal series of 

 small dentate marks more strongly tinged with crimson and a 

 terminal series of spots, those above veins 3 and 6 smaller. Hind 

 wing yellow, tinged with crimson towards termen ; cilia fuscous 

 towards apex. 



Fore wing sometimes with veins 11 and 12 only connected by a 

 bar ; hind wing with veins 4 and 5 stalked. 



Hah. Amboi>-a, type t 2 in Coll. Kothschild ; Ceram, 1 S , t.ype 

 placens ; Timor, 1 $ ; Batchiax ; Aru ( Wallace) ; Tkobriand Is., 

 Kiriwini (Meek), 2 c^ ; Louisiades, St. Aignan {Meek), 1 (S , 1 2 ; 

 QuEEXSLAND. Kvj)., d 20, 2 30 millim. 



*928. Asura phryctopa. (Plate XXX. fig. 18.) 



Calligenia phryctopa, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 462 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 309. 



(S . Head and thorax yellow suffused with crimson ; fuscous spots 

 on vertex of head, tegula?, patagia, and mesothorax ; abdomen 

 crimson, greyish towards base, a black patch ou ventral surface 

 before the daspers. Fore wing crimson suffused with fuscous; 

 the antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines diffused and indistinct; 

 a white subbasal patch from below costa to vein 1 with some bright 

 ciimson on its edges, a similar patch in and just beyond and below 



