75G AKCTIADJE. 



*925 a. Asura isabellina. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 23.) 



Asura avemalis. isabellina, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 213 (1913). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-scarlet ; palpi with the 

 extremity of 2nd joint black ; antennae blackish except at base ; 

 vertex of head with minute blackish streak ; tegulse with blackish 

 bars ; patagia with curved blackish fascia? ; pro- and metathorax 

 with paired blackish spots ; tibiae with black band near extremities, 

 the tarsi black at tips. Fore wing scarlet ; a fuscous black spot at 

 base of cell and subbasal band from costa to vein 1, conjoined on 

 costa and inner margin to a curved antemedial band, connected by 

 streaks on the veins with a sinuous medial band, which again is 

 connected by a streak at upper angle of cell and oblique bar below 

 end of cell with the somewhat sinuous postmedial band; the scarlet 

 spot in end of cell with some yellow on it ; a fuscous subterminal 

 band confluent except at costa and inner margin with the post- 

 medial band, emitting streaks to termen at veins 6 and 4 and 

 ending at tornus ; the costa toward apex, termen, and cilia fuscous 

 black. Hind wing fuscous brown, the base and inner area with a 

 yellowish tinge. Underside of fore wing with the basal half pale 

 scarlet, a fuscous medial band from costa to below the cell, the 

 rest of wing fuscous with some scarlet spots below costa and before 

 termen ; hind wing with the basal costal area tinged with scarlet, 

 a postmedial scarlet spot on costa. 



Hah. Solomon Is., Islets near Isabel I. (Webster), tvpe t 6 in 

 Coll. Kothschild. Ssp. 31 millim. 



925 h. Asura bougainvillei. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 24.) 



Asura avernalis, bougainvillei, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 213 (1913). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-scarlet ; palpi with some 

 black at sides ; antennae blackish except at base ; vertex of head 

 with blackish spot ; tegulse with blackish bars ; patagia with 

 curved blackish band ; pro- and metathorax with paired blackish 

 spots ; tibiae with black band near extremities, the tarsi black 

 at tips. Fore wing scarlet ; the costa blackish towards base ; 

 a curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; a curved 

 greyish fuscous antemedial band edged with black, conjoined 

 in cell and at vein 1 to a sinuous medial band, which is connected 

 by a streak at upper angle of cell and an angle on median nervure 

 with the postmedial band, which is excurved beyond the cell and 

 angled inwards below the cell to join the medial band ; the scarlet 

 spot left at end of cell with yellow centre ; an irregular sub- 

 terminal band, its inner edge dentate to or to near the postmedial 

 band and its outer edge emitting streaks at veins 6 and 4 to 

 termen, ending at tornus; the costa towards apex, termen, and 

 cilia blackish. Hind wing yellow-buff ; a terminal fuscous band 

 with irregular inner edge from apex to vein 1 ; the inner margin 



