ASURA, 449 



fuscous points at base ; a straight oblique antemedial line ; the 

 medial line arising from the same point as the antemedial line, then 

 strongly excurved, joined at median nervuro by an ol)lique line from 

 origin of postmedial line, which is angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, and connected with the medial line by a streak on 

 vein 4 ; some subterminal dark points. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hah. BoRVEO, Sarawak {Wallace), 1 S type t in Mus. Oson. 

 Exp. 16 millim. 



945. Asura semifascia. 



■ Setina semifascia. Wile. ii. 521 (1854) ; Hmpan. Moths Ind. ii. p. 109 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 63, pi. 103. f. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 299. 



S . Yellow tinged with brownish ; palpi blackish ; shoulders and 

 mesothorax with black points ; legs marked with black. Fore wing 

 with black point at base ; the costa streaked with fuscous towards 

 base ; subbasal fuscous spots below costa and cell ; the antemedial 

 line excurved below costa, then oblique ; a slightly oblique waved 

 medial line ; a discoidal point ; the postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, strongly dentate on veins 7, 6, and 4, then bent 

 inwards and slightly dentate ; an irregular subterminal series of 

 spots, angled outwards at veins 6 and 4. Hind wing with the 

 terminal half suffused with fuscous ; an obscure postmedial line. 



$ much yellower ; hind wing sometimes Avholly yellow, some- 

 times with fuscous terminal baud. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the subterminal series of spots obsolete. 

 Coll. Green. 



Hah. Ceylon {Templeton), 1 $ type, Pundaloya {Green), 2 S, 

 1 5 ; Burma, Rangoon {Scott), 2 ? . Exp. 24-26 millim. 



Larva. Hampsn. III. Het. ix. p. 84, pi. 158. f. 11. 



Mouse-grey, almost black, each somite densely clothed with fine 

 plumose hairs, a few longer hairs on anterior and posterior somites. 

 Food-plant, minute mosses. The larva when disturbed rolls itself 

 into a ball, the thick hair dividing at junction of somites. 



946. Asura flavida. (Plate XXXI. fig. 4.) 



Mmochmtaflavida, Butl. A. M. N. II. (5) xix. p. 219 (1887) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 309. 



5 . Yellow ; patagia streaked with fuscous ; fore tibite with 

 fuscous patch. Fore wing with fuscous spot at base and streak in 

 Bubmedian fold to the antemedial line, which is angled outwards on 

 median ncrvure and connected by a short streak with the medial 

 line, which is incurved at middle ; a curved postmedial line joining 

 the medial line at inner margin, and with an irregularly dentate 

 line beyond it not reaching costa, and emitting a longer tooth on 

 vein 6 and a streak to termen on vein 4. 



Hah. N. Australia, Adelaide R. {J. J. Walker), 1 ? ; Solo- 

 mons, Alu ( TFoocZ/onZ), 1 $ type. E.vp. 26 millim. 



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