ASTJEA. 451 



950. Asura asaphes, n, sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 31.) 



Pale orange-yellow ; frons, pectus, and abdomen whitish ; fore 

 tibiffi with fuscous band. Fore wing with subbasal black point ; 

 costa brownish towards base ; two pale brownish subbasal spots 

 below the cell ; the lines pale brownish, the antemedial line angled 

 outwards in cell, then oblique, and angled iuwards in submediau 

 fold and on vein 1 ; a discoidal point ; the postmedial lino bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, with longer teeth on veins 6 

 and 4, then oblique, with a tooth sometimes connected with the 

 antemedial line on vein 2 ; a pale brown terminal band with 

 irregularly dentate inner edge. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Hah. Borneo, Sandakan (Prijer), 1 c? , 2 5 , type. Exj)., c? 16, 

 2 20 millim. 



951. Asura ectoph^a, u. sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 9.) 



(S . Ochreous yellow ; fore legs, mid tibiae and tarsi, and ex- 

 tremities of hind tibise and tarsi fuscous ; abdomen with the anal 

 tuft fuscous. Fore wing with the costa streaked with black to the 

 antemedial line, which is angled outwards in cell, inwards just 

 below the cell, then oblique; a postmedial dentate line acutely 

 dentate on veins 7, 6, and 3, then retracted to below end of cell ; 

 the terminal area suffused with fuscous with traces of an irregular 

 line. Hind wing with irregularly diftused fuscous on terminal area, 

 and sometimes traces of postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the fuscous markings reduced ; very slight 

 traces of fuscous on terminal area and none on hind wing. 



Mab. N. Australia, Port Darwin (J. J. Walker), 4 (S , type. 

 Exjy, 26 millim. 



952. Asura varians. 



Lt/clene varians, Hmpsa. 111. Ilet. ix. p. 85, pi. 158. ff. 10, 20, 32, 33 

 (1893); id. Moths lucl. ii. p. 115. 



c? . Fuscous black ; head and thorax orange ; antennae usually 

 black ; vertex of head, shoulders, patagia, meso- and metathorax 

 with black points ; pectus, ventral surface, and extremity of abdo- 

 men black or orange ; legs orange, the tibiae with black bands ; 

 wings black with a slight reddish tinge, with a slight orange mark 

 at base only, or with orange-red streaks on costa before and after 

 middle and towards apex, or with spot also on middle of inner 

 margin, or with oblique antemedial series of spots and terminal 

 series of marks. Hind wing semihyaliue towards base. 



5 either with the fore wing like the unmarked male, but 

 browner or like the male with most orange-red, with an irregular 

 terminal band with series of black points on it, or the abdomen and 

 fore wing orange with irregular antemedial, medial, and postmedial 

 fuscous bands connected by a fascia and coalescing below the cell 



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