ASTJEA.. 453 



Hah. NiLGiBi Plateau, 7000 ft. {Hampson\ 3 <S , type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



This may be an extreme form of A. inconspicua. 



956. Asura inconspicua. 



Lydene inconspicua, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 32 ; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. Ill ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. 

 Lydene ohliqtui, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 51, pi. 139. f. 25 (1891) ; 



id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 114 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. 



Head and thorax orange-red ; palpi and legs slightly streaked 

 with fuscous ; vertex of head, shoulders, patagia, and mesothorax 

 with fuscous spots ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the aual tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing orange-red ; a subbasal black point ; the costa black 

 towards base ; an antemedial diffused oblique fuscous band not 

 reaching costa or inner margin ; a rather broad oblique medial line ; 

 :a discoidal spot ; the veins of terminal area strongly streaked 

 with fuscous to near terraen, sometimes conjoined into an irregu.lar 

 fuscous band ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing pale ochreous. 



Ab. 1. ohliqua. Ochreous yellow. 



Hah. "N.India," 1 c? type; Kilgirts (Cardew, Hampson), 3 c?, 

 2 $ , type ohliqua. Exp. 30-32 millim. 



957. Asura hyporhoda, n. sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 10.) 



(S . Orange ; extremities of palpi, tibise, and tarsi black. Fore 

 wing with black points at base of costa and cell ; an oblique sinuous 

 fuscous antemedial band ; a medial band angled inwards in cell and 

 touching the antemedial band, then bent outwards and touching the 

 postmedial band above inner margin ; the postmedial band composed 

 .of confluent streaks, its outer edge angled at veins 6 and 4, then 

 incurved. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with 

 crimso]!. 



The type has vein 11 of fore wing curved and approximated to 

 12, in other specimens it anastomoses with 12. 



Hah. SiERKA Leone {Clements), 1 S type. Exp. 20 millim. 



958. Asura rubricosa. 



Lydene rubricosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1S78, p. 30, pi. 3. f. 1 ; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. Ill ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. 

 Lydene curvifascia, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 49, pi. 139. f. 17 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. 

 Lydene ochracea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 51, pi. 139. f. 26 ; Ku-by, 



Cat. Het. p. 305. 



Head and thorax orange-red ; shoulders, patagia, mesothorax, 

 and tibia) with fuscous spots ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing 

 orange-red ; a subbasal black spot ; the costa streaked with black 

 towards base ; an antemedial diffused irregularly dentate line bent 

 inwards to costa, then oblique ; an oblique medial band nearly 

 etraight or slightly curved and irregular ; a discoidal spot ; a post- 



