YENUS1A. ASTHENA.. 



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3835. Venusia dharmsalae, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 169 -,C.$S. no. 3551 . 



Bufous, irrorated with fuscous ; frons chestnut. .Fore wing 

 with about six indistinct fuscous lines more or less reduced to 

 specks ; indistinct ante- and postmedial narrow ferruginous bends 

 Hind w r ing with traces of three fuscous lines and a narrow medial 

 ferruginous band. 



Hob. Kulu ; Dharmsala. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus ASTHENA. 



Asthena, Hiibn. Verz. p. 310 (? 1818). 

 Pseud ostegania, Butl Trans, Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 416. 

 Laciniodes, Warr. Nov. ZooL p. 393 (1894). 

 Laciniodes, Swirih. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 188. 



Type, A. candidata, Schiff., from Europe. 



Range. Nearctic and Palaearctic regions ; Japan ; Himalayas. 



Palpi clothed with scales and reaching just beyond the frons r 

 which is rounded ; hind tibia3 with two pairs of spurs. Pore wing 

 with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6 from upper angle ; 10 anastomosing with 11, and then 

 with 8, 9 to form the double areole. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 near angle of cell; 5 from above middle of discocellulars, which 

 are oblique ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 7 to just beyond 

 middle of cell. 



In the typical section the antennae of male are serrate and 

 fasciculated. 



SECT. II. (Laciniodes). Antenna of male thickened and ciliated. 



3836. Asthena plurilinearia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 645 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3996. 

 Acidalia unistirpis, Butl. III. Het. ii, p. 51, pi. 37, tig. 7. 



Ochreous ; the palpi, frons, vertex of head, and collar banded 

 Pore wing with numerous waved dark lines ; a dark 

 patch on base of costa ; a curved 

 subbasal line ; an antemedial 

 line angled below costa ; a black 

 spot at end of cell ; a postmedial 

 line angled on vein 4 ; two of 

 the waved lines on outer area 

 prominent, with a series of white 

 spots beyond them, those be- 

 tween the costa and vein 4 being 

 on a dark patch; a marginal 

 dark line. Hind wing with waved lines ; a subbasal straight line ; 

 cell-speck ; medial line excurved at lower angle of cell ; two waved 

 postmedial lines with series of white spots beyond them ; a dark 

 marginal line. 



Hob. Japan ; N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp., <J 34,, 

 $ 40 millim. 

 VOL. in. 2 E 



with black. 



