710 AJttCT.IAD.2B. 



*901«. Asura pseudojosiodes. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 30.) 



Asura pseudojosiodes, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 210 (1913). 



cf . Head and thorax orange-yellow; antennae black; vertex of 

 head and tegulae with black spots ; upper edge of patagia black ; 

 the prothorax with black patch ; hind tibia? with blackish streaks 

 on outer side towards extremities ; abdomen black-brown with 

 slight yellowish dorsal lines towards extremity and the ventral 

 surface yellow. Fore wing with the basal two-thirds orange- 

 yellow, the apical third black-brown; the costa and inner margin 

 black-brown ; a subbasal black point below costa and short streak 

 below the cell; an incurved antemedial black line produced out- 

 wards above inner margin to the black terminal area ; an oblique 

 series of slight dentate orange marks on the veins from below costa 

 beyond middle to above tornus ; a lunulate orange subterminal 

 patch between veins 7 and 4. Hind wing black-brown ; the under- 

 side with yellow spot on middle of costa and some yellow irroration 

 below middle of cell. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa R., Snow Mts. (Meek), 

 type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 40 millim. 



*901 b. Asura habrotis. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 1.) 



Asura habrotis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) i. p. 748 (1886). 



Distinct from bipars. 



Hab. Tasmania, type f 6 hi Coll. Meyrick. Exp. 20 millim. 



902 a. Asura melanoxantlia, n. sp. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 2.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the last with the ventral 

 surface yellow. Fore wing fuscous black; abroad orange-yellow 

 medial band from subcostal nervure in end of cell to inner margin, 

 its upper edge rounded, its inner edge slightly sinuous. Hind wing- 

 fuscous black with yellow patch from costa extending into end 

 of cell, the patch on underside extending on costal area from near 

 base to beyond middle. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa R., Snow Mts. (Meek), 

 2 2 type. Exp. 30 millim. 



*904a. Asura mimetica. (Plate XXXIX. rig. 3.) 

 Asura mimetica, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 212 (1913). 



6 . Head and thorax scarlet ; black points on frons and between 

 antennae which are black-brown ; shoulders, upper edge of patagia, 

 and prothorax with fuscous black streaks, the metathorax with 

 fuscous black patch ; tibiae with fuscous rings near extremities ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and lateral streaks towards 

 extremities scarlet. Fore wing scarlet ; a fuscous fascia on costa 



