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*942 b. Asura aroa. 



Asura aroa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 426, pi. v. f. 37 (1904). 



S . Head and thorax yellow strongly suffused with scarlet ; 

 abdomen yellow, whitish on dorsum. Fore wing yellow with 

 diffused scarlet streaks in the interspaces ;. a slight black point in 

 base of cell ; an indistinct antemedial line, angled outwards in cell 

 and on vein 1 and inwards in submedian fold ; a slight medial line, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure, then incurved ; a slight post- 

 medial line oblique from costa to vein 6 and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 traces of a dentate subterminal line, oblique from costa to vein 6. 

 Hind wing pale yellowish, the terminal area very slightly tinged 

 with scarlet. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Aroa R. (Meek), type f J in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exp. 26 millim. 



943. Asura senara, insert (syn.) : — ■ 



Miltochrista sullia, Swink. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 468 (1901). 



Larva. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. xlvii. p. 159. 



Black with tufts of plumose hair from the sides and with thick 

 hair throughout. 



943 a. Asura tricolor. (Plate XL. fig. 11.) 



Miltochrista tricolor, Wileman, Entom. xliii. p. 244 (1910). 



cS • Head and thorax scarlet ; a black point between antennae, 

 the patagia with black spots, the prothorax with pair of 

 black points and the mesothorax with black patch ; abdomen 

 brownish white, the ventral surface tinged with scarlet. Fore 

 wing scarlet with some yellow in the interspaces and more 

 prominent patches in end of cell and three on subterminal area; 

 small subbasal fuscous spots below costa and in and below the cell ; 

 an excurved fuscous antemedial band, confluent in the cell with an 

 incurved medial band ; an excurved postmedial band, dilated at 

 middle and confluent at inner margin with the medial band, a 

 series of spots beyond it produced as streaks on veins 6 and 4 to 

 near termen. Hind wing pale crimson. 



Hab. Formosa, Kanshirei (Wileman), 1 S . Exp. 26 millim. 

 Type t $ in Coll. Wileman. 



946 a. Asura eldola. (Plate XL. fig. 12.) 



Lyclene eldola, Swink. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 468 (1901). 



cS • Pale yellow ; palpi blackish ; vertex of head, shoulders, and 

 patagia with blackish points; fore tibia? and tarsi and streaks on 



