A SURA. 7-") 7 



and tornus tinged witli scarlet. Underside of fore wing scarlet 

 with fuscous spot at middle of costa, the terminal area fuscous 

 with dentate inner edge and some scarlet spots before termen ; 

 hind wing with the costal area suffused .with scarlet. 



Hah. Solomon Is.. Bougainville I. (MeeJc), type f $ in Cull. 

 Rothschild; Admiralty Is. (Meek), 1 $. Exp. 34 millim. 



*Q2oc Asura fioridensis. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 25.) 

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



2 . Head and thorax orange-scarlet ; palpi with some blackish 

 near tips ; antennae blackish except at base ; vertex of head with 

 blackish spot; tegulae with blackish bars; patagia with curved 

 blackish marks; pro- and metathorax with curved blackish patches; 

 tarsi blackish at tips ; abdomen yellowish tinged with scarlet, the 

 ventral surface scarlet. Fore wing scarlet; the costal area blackish 

 towards base, a blackish spot at base of cell and subbasal line from 

 the dark costal area to inner margin ; a curved fuscous black ante- 

 medial band conjoined in cell to a medial band expanding in the 

 cell and with its outer edge angled outwards just below the cell ; 

 a fuscous black postmedial band excurved beyond the cell and 

 angled inwards below it ; some yellow in end of cell ; an irregular 

 fuscous black subterminal band, its inner edge incurved below the 

 costa, then dentate, its outer edge angled outwards to near termen 

 at veins 6 and 4, ending at tornus ; the costa towards apex, termen, 

 and cilia blackish. Hind vving flesh-pink; the termen fuscous 

 from apex to vein 1, conjoined to a subapical spot, a spot at 

 vein 4, and oblique mark from vein 2. Underside of fore wing 

 scarlet with faint diffused medial and postmedial bands and the 

 markings of terminal area as above ; hind wing pale scarlet with 

 fuscous postmedial spot below the costa and more complete sub- 

 terminal series of spots conjoined to the fuscous on termen. 



Sab. Solomon" Is.. Florida 1. (Meek), type f $ in Coll. Itoth- 

 schild. Exp. 38 millim. 



*926r/. Asura aureorosea. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 20.) 



Miltochrista aureorosea, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 225 (1913). 



J . Head and thorax orange-yellow, the patagia and prothorax 

 with paired fuscous spots ; fore tibise with black band at extremities, 

 the tarsi black at extreme tips ; abdomen yellow, dorsally tinged 

 with scarlet except at base of dorsum. Fore wing orange-yellow, 

 the inner half tinged with scarlet except at base, the terminal 

 area scarlet ; black points at base of costa and cell and a sub- 

 basal point in the cell; antemedial line fuscous, oblique to middle 

 of cell and slightly angled inwards in submedian fold and to inner 

 margin ; medial line fuscous, slightly waved, strongly excurved 

 at median nervure and angled inwards at vein 1 ; postmedial line 



