412 AECTIAUiE. 



Genus ASURIDIA, nov. 



Type, A. carnipicta. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frons ; 

 antennae of male with bristles and cilia; tibire with the spurs moderate; 

 abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the costa arched ; 

 vein 2 from middle of cell, oblique ; 3 from near angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from 

 below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 stalked, IT anastomosing with 12. 

 Hind wing ^\^th vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3 from close to angle; 5 

 from well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from towards angle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with the cilia black carnipicta. 



B. Fore wing with the cilia yellowish. 



a. Hind wing pale crimson nigriradiata. 



b. Hind wing fuscous black metaplKBH. 



875. Asuridia carnipicta. 



Ammatho ca.rnipicta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 342 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 308. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish tinged with crimson, the 

 tegular and patagia brighter crimson. Fore wing crimson ; the 



costal edge black to the 

 antemedial line, which is 

 excurved from costa to sub- 

 median fold, where it is 

 slightly angled inwards ; 

 the medial line oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, 



Fig. 2,2\.-Asuridi^ carnipicta, S- \. ^^^^ sinuous, the costal edge 



black from it to apex ; a 

 discoidal black spot ; the postmedial line arising from nearly the 

 same point on costa as the medial line, strongly angled beyond the 

 cell, then retracted to lower angle and excurved again above inner 

 margin, a series of black streaks on veins 2-7 from it to near 

 tertnen, the uppermost forking on veins 7, 8, 9 ; cilia black. Hind 

 wing pale crimson ; the cilia ochreons, fuscous at base towards 

 apex. 



Hah. CHiifA, Nankow Pass, 1 S type. Exp. 26 millim. 



876. Asuridia nigriradiata. 



Miltochrista nigriradiata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 501 (1896) ; Dudgeon, 

 J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. f. 15. 



5 . Head and thorax pink ; palpi and fore legs blackish ; meso- 

 thorax with paired black spots ; abdomen pale pink. Fore wing 

 pink ; two black points at base ; the costa streaked with black to 

 the antemedial line, which is excurved from costa to submedian 

 fold, where it is strongly angled inwards, then angled outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a straight oblique medial line ; a discoidal spot ; the post- 

 medial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved and 

 excurved again above inner margin, a series of streaks on the veins 



