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in the interspaces with blackish streaks between them on the 

 veins except towards costa to the dark snhterininal line, which 

 arises below costa, is angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 and to 

 tornus, and with dark suffusion before it on inner area. Hind 

 wing pale yellow. Underside of fore wing with diffused dark 

 band before the subterminal line. 



II, ih. Dutch N. Gl*ixea, Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley, typef 6 

 in Coll Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



*928 a. Asura intensa. (Plate XXXIX. fig, 29.) 



Miltodhrista intensa, Boths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 226 (1913). 



c? . Head and thorax deep crimson with bluish black markings, 

 the frons with T-shaped mark, the vertex of head with streak, the 

 base of tegula? black, the shoulders with streaks, the patagia with 

 curved mark, the dorsum of thorax with streak, and the pro- and 

 metathorax with paired spots ; tibia? with black band at extremities, 

 the tips of tarsi black ; abdomen crimson with some brownish on 

 dorsum towards base. Fore wing deep crimson, with bluish black 

 markings ; some fuscous suffusion on basal area ; the costa black 

 towards base ; points in cell at and near base ; antemedial line 

 strongly excurved below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, 

 confluent in the cell with the oblique medial line, from which the 

 obliquely excurved postmedial line arises at subcostal nervure, ' 

 slight blackish streaks beyond it on the veins extending to near 

 termen at veins 6 and 4 and with slight fuscous suffusion between 

 them ; the costa towards apex and cilia blue-black. Hind wing 

 pale crimson, the cilia blackish towards apex. Underside of fore 

 wing with the costal area towards apex and terminal area to 

 vein 2 blackish with crimson streaks on the veins ; hind wing 

 with the apical area suffused with blackish. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Mt. Goliath (Week), type f <S in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 32 millim. 



*928 h. Asura dinava. 



Asm-a dinawa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 426, pi. v. f. 38 (11)04). 



c? . Head and thorax dull crimson with black streak on frons 

 and vertex of head and bands at base of tegulse and on meso- 

 thorax ; legs crimson with the sides of coxae black, the tibiae 

 with black bands ; abdomen pinkish flesh-colour. Fore wing 

 dull crimson, the basal and postmedial areas suffused with fuscous ; 

 the base of costa black ; a black point in base of cell; antemedial 

 line indistinct, excurved below costa, then oblique ; an oblique 

 slightly waved medial line ; postmedial line obsolete except from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin where it is indistinct, waved ; 



