Easttrn (tiid .Inslrdlut/i I Icterocern. 407 



Belongs to Section II. d of the genus* ; the pattern of the 

 fore winces is somewhat siinihir to tliat of D. radiata, Walker, 

 from Manilla t, hut that species has longer wings, the Jiscal 

 band of the fore wings does not touch the costa, and the 

 marginal band of the hind wings is much broader. 



Subfamily Aqanain^. 

 Asota carsina, nov. 



(^ ? . Palpi black above, orange beneath, last joint all 

 black ; head and body orange, a black spot on each side of 

 the shoulders, also on each side of the thorax in front ; abdo- 

 men with short segmental black bands above and below : 

 fore wings slaty black, veins uniformly whitish and promi- 

 nent except towards the outer margin ; a large round white 

 spot at the lower end of the cell ; basal patch small, orange 

 below the origin of the median vein, whitish on the costa, 

 three black subcostal spots and two on the orange portion : 

 hind wings white, with a large black spot at the end of the 

 cell and a black marginal border, broad at the apex, nar- 

 rowing hindwards, more or less dentated inwards, with a 

 rather large indentation immediately before the anal angle; 

 abdominal margin in the male narrowly blackish, in the 

 female less so, there being merely a shade of colour there. 

 Underside : fore wings black ; a white streak on the sub- 

 costal vein from the base in the male only; a triangular 

 white patch at the lower end of the cell in both sexes : hind 

 wings black, with a large triangular white central patch ; a 

 large round black discoidal spot touching the lower edge of 

 the costal black portion, and in the male a black streak 

 parallel to and near the abdominal margin, and another short 

 black streak from the discoidal spot to the black outer 

 border. 



Expanse of wings 2^ inches. 



Nias; one male, two females. 



Nearest to A. leuconeura, Butler, from the Bismarck 

 Archipelago, but that has the fore wings longer and nar- 

 rower, the cell-spot oval, and no discoidal spot on the hind 

 wings above. 



Family Chalcosiidae. 

 Pompelon peralcana, nov. 

 cJ . An ochreous band in front of the frons, which is 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. 1903, p. 67. 



t See Cat. Het. Mas. Oxoq. i. pi. v. fig. 10. 



