ASURIDIA. r2o 



*876a. Asuridia miltochristoides. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



Asuridia miltochristoides, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 202 (1913). 



5 . Head and thorax pink ; antennae tinged with fuscous ; pectus 

 and abdomen ochreous yellow ; palpi and legs brown. Fore wing 

 pink, the costal edge black towards base ; a subbasal black spot in 

 cell ; antemedial line black, excurved below costa, angled inwards 

 in submedian fold, then again excurved ; an oblique black medial 

 line ; a small black discoidal spot ; postmedial line black, oblique 

 to discal fold, then inwardly oblique to vein 2 and erect to inner 

 margin, the veins beyond it streaked with black to near termen, 

 forking on veins 8, 7. Hind wing pale pink. Underside of fore 

 wing with the basal costal area and the disk suffused with blackish. 

 Hab. Assam, Khisis, type f § in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



*S76 b. Asuridia ridibunda. 



Asuridia ridibunda, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xlvii. p. 156, pi. 11. f. 5 (1904). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish with a yellow tinge. 

 Fore wing pale reddish with a yellow tinge ; a black point at base ; 

 a subbasal series of four short black streaks ; antemedial line black, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, then curved ; medial line 

 oblique, slightly angled inwards at median nervure and vein 1 ; a 

 small black discoidal spot ; postmedial line angled outwards at 

 veins 6 and 4, then bent inwards to below end of cell and erect to 

 inner margin ; a subterminal series of short black streaks. Hind 

 wing pale reddish with a yellow tinge. 



Sab. Java, Batavia. JExp. 16-22 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



Larva. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. xlvii. p. 156, pi. 10. f. 9. 



Pale brown with long white, grey, and black hairs ; each of the 

 anterior abdominal somites with two tufts of hair forming short 

 brushes ; the anal somite with several oblique plumose hairs or 

 sometimes short hairs forming brushes. Food-plant, young shoots 

 of Dv/rio zibethinus. 



Cocoon formed of single hairs forming: circles on leaves. 



876 c. Asuridia nigrisparsa, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



2 . Head and thorax pale crimson irrorated with blackish ; 

 abdomen pale crimson. Fore wing pale crimson thickly irrorated 

 with blackish, the costal edge black ; antemedial line blackish, ex- 

 curved from below costa to vein 1 ; an oblique medial blackish line 

 slightly curved inwards to costa ; postmedial line blackish, oblique 

 to vein 6, then inwardly oblique ; the terminal area with obscure 

 diffused blackish streaks in the interspaces j cilia black. Hind 



