760 ARCTIAD.E. 



faint traces of a subterminal line ; cilia black. Hind wing pale 

 yellowish, the costal and terminal areas tinged with crimson except 

 at tornus. 



Hab. Br, N. Guinea, Dinawa, 4000' {Pratt), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Bethnne-Baker. Exp. 28 millim. 



928 c. Asura haemachroa. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 30.) 



Asura haemachroa, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 438 (1905). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson, vertex of head, tegulae, 

 patagia, metathorax and extremities of fore tibia? with fuscous 

 points. Fore wing crimson ; three black points at base followed 

 by a slight streak in submedian fold ; the lines rather broad, 

 fuscous slightly defined on each side by ochreous ; the antemedial 

 line acutely angled outwards in the cell, then oblique and sinuous ; 

 the medial line strongly angled outwards on median nervure, then 

 incurved ; the postmedial line very oblique from costa to vein 4 

 where it is angled outwards, then strongly angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold ; a subterminal series of fuscous spots on an ochreous 

 ground, slightly angled outwards at veins (5 and 4. Hind wing 

 paler crimson. 



Hab. Solomox Is., Bougainville I. {Meek), 2 3 type. Exp. 

 18 millim. 



*928 d. Asura postbicolor. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 31.) 



Asura postbicolor, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 211 (1913). 



cT . Head and thorax deep orange with slight blackish marks ; 

 fore tibia? and tarsi blackish towards extremities ; abdomen orange 

 with dorsal blackish patch from near base to near extremity. Fore 

 wing deep orange ; the costa black-brown towards base ; a sub- 

 basal black spot in cell ; antemedial obliquely-placed blackish spots 

 in and below the cell and above inner margin ; an oblique slightly 

 excurved medial blackish band, and a blackish discoidal spot ; a 

 ] lost medial blackish band, forming a patch at costa, excurved 

 below costa and at middle almost to termen, then incurved ; the 

 termen and cilia blackish. Hind wing black-brown with the base 

 orange. Underside of fore wing with the terminal half suffused 

 with blackish leaving some orange spots before termen ; hind wing 

 with the orange extending on costa to middle. 



Hab. Timor, Dili {Doherty), type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



929. Asura sexualis, insert (syn.) : — 

 Miltochrista effulgens, Pag-. Zoologica, xii. 29. p. 62, pi. ii. f. 30 (1900). 

 New Britain, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 



