ASURA.. 463 



fore tibire banded with fuscous ; extremity of tarsi fuscous. Fore 

 wing with subbasal black point and discoidal spot. 



This may be an extreme form of the female of A. dharma. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Simla {Harford), 1 $ , Dalhousie, 1 2 , 

 Palumpore {Hochiny), 1 J ; Sikhim ; Burma ; Borneo, Sandakan 

 (Pryer), 1 § ; Sumatra ; Java (Horsjield), 1 $ . E^i^J. 24-30 millim. 



987. Asiira aiiomala. 



Lithosia anomala, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1S90, p. SSS, pi. 32. f. 14 ; Ilmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 104 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 325. 



Head and thorax crimson ; palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 fuscous black. Fore wing crimson; a black streak from base 

 through the cell and on vein 5 to termen, with a slight pale streak 

 below it on median nervure ; veins 6, 7 witb fine black streaks ; 

 cilia yellowish at tips. Hind wing fuscous black. Underside of 

 fore wing suffused with black except the margins. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 2 S . Exp. 26 millim. Type t in Coll. Elwes. 



*988. Asura rubrimargo. (Plate XXXI. fig, 32.) 



Idopterum rvhrimargo, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 104 (1894). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-bvown ; frons, tegulfe, and 

 patagia crimson. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with crimson, and 

 with crimson fascise on costa and inner margin ; the base crimson 

 with two black points ; subbasal and antemedial oblique grey-edged 

 black lines, the former not reaching inner margin ; a prominent 

 black spot at lower angle of cell ; cilia crimson, tipped with yellow. 

 Hind wing grey-brown tinged with crimson, the inner area pale 

 crimson ; cilia pale crimson, tipped with yellow. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 1 S type f in Coll. Elwes. Exp. 28 millim. 



989. Asura esmia. (Plate XXXI. fig. 8.) 



Miltochrista esmia, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii. p. 217 (1894); Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 119. 

 Miliochrista callinoma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 3. 



§ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale pink. Fore wing whitish ; 

 the veins, cell, and snbmedian fold with fuscous streaks ; crimson 

 streaks in the interspaces, on costa and inner margin, and the termen 

 crimson. Hind wing pink. 



Hah. Burma, Shan States, Koni, 1 $ type and type callinoma. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



990. Asura uniformis. 



Tricholepis nniformis, Ilmpsn. III. Het. ix. p. 86, pi. 157. f. 29 (1893) ; id. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 121. 



$ . Pale dull brown ; abdomen with the last four segments 

 thickly tufted Avith ochreous white hair ; vertex of head and legs 

 slightly tinged with fulvous. 



Hab. Ceylon, Ncwcra Eliya (Green), 1 5 type. ^^y. 24 millim. 



