ASURA. 771 



2 . Fore wing without medial streak in submeclian fold, the post- 

 medial line excurved below costa, then oblique to submedian fold 

 before middle. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea. Mambare R., Biagi (Meek), type t cS in 

 Coll. Bethune-Baker. type t 6 2 mediofascia in Coil. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



953 a. Asura ochreomaculata. 



Asura ochreomaculata, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 424, pi. v. f. 26 

 (1904). 



Head orange ; antennae brown ; thorax brown, the tegulse and 



patagia streaked with orange ; legs orange banded with fuscous, 

 the fore and mid femora suffused with crimson ; abdomen orange 

 with fuscous band before anal tuft, the ventral surface fuscous. 

 Fore wing brown ; a yellow point at base of cell ; antemedial line 

 double with crimson-tinged spots on it, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique ; large conical yellow medial patches on cost a 

 and inner margin, an oblique series of crimson spots defined by 

 fuscous just beyond them, slightly incurved below upper angle of 

 cell; a postmedial series of crimson spots defined by fuscous, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; termen irregularly fuscous with wedge-shaped crimson 

 spots at extremity of the veins. Hind wing yellow, the terminal 

 area fuscous, narrowing to a point at tornus. 



Hab Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 ?; Br. N. 

 Guinea, Dinawa, 4000' (Pratt), type f J in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 

 Exp. 6 30. 2 30 millim. 



*953 b. Asura biplagiata. (Plate XL. fig. 15.) 



Miltochrista biplagiata, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 216 (1913). 



Head orange-yellow, the edges of frons and a spot on vertex of 

 head black ; antenna? black except basal joint ; thorax dark red- 

 brown, the edges of tegulse, spots at base of patagia and patches 

 at sides of mesothorax yellow, the metathorax with orange-red 

 patch ; pectus and legs brown, the fore coxae, extremities of femora 

 and base of tibiae yellow tinged with red, the extremities of tibia?, 

 and the tarsi except at extremities, yellow; abdomen with the basal 

 half orange-yellow, the terminal half black-brown with some yellow 

 in anal tuft. Fore wing dark red-brown tinged with grey except 

 on terminal area; a small subbasal black spot in cell with some 

 yellow and scarlet points round it; antemedial line scarlet defined 

 on each side by dark brown, strongly excurved below costa and 

 incurved below submedian fold ; yellow spots edged with scarlet 

 and dark brown at middle of costa and inner margin ; scarlet 

 patches edged with dark brown above and below end of cell and a 

 point in end of cell ; a postmedial series of wedge-shaped scarlet 

 marks edged with dark brown on the veins, the mark on costa 



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