426 AECTIAD^. 



Genus ASURA. ^v 



Type. 



Js;<ra, Wlk. ii. 484 (1854) cervicalis. . 



Pitane, Wlk. ii. 531 (1854), nee Wlk. ii. p. 462 conferta.. 



Fallene, Wlk. ii. 542 (1854) structa. 



Cyllene, WW. ii. 543 (1854), nee Newm. Col. 1840 humilis. 



Lyclene, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 300 (1859) humilis. 



Nepita, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 302 (1859) conferta. 



Cyme, Felcl. Sitz. Akad. Wien. xliii. p. 36 (1861) reticulata. 



Stonia, Wlk. xxxi. 187 (1863) '. bipars. 



Cymella, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 3 (1874), non descr congerens. 



Setinochroa, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 9 (1874), non descr infiimata. 



Adites, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 61 (1882) hilaris. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, slender, not reaching beyond the 

 frons, which is hairy ; tibias with the spurs short ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair ; wings with hairy scaling. Fore wing with vein 2 from, 

 middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 5 from above angle ; 6 usually from 

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

 Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 5 from 

 or from above angle or stalked with 4 ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from towards angle 

 of cell. 



Sect. I. {Asura). Antennse of male bipectinate with long branches, of female 

 with very short branches. 



A. Fore wing with the basal half orange hemixantha. 



B. Fore wing with the basal area black, with orange patches. 



a. Hind wing with the basal area orange lydia. 



h. Hind wing with the basal area black. 



a) . Metathorax with yellow patch ; abdomon yellow ... hipars. 

 b^. Metathorax black ; abdomen black, with dorsal and 



lateral orange stripes cervicalis. 



0. Fore wing orange, with four waved black bands conferta. 



D. Fore wing orange-red, with dentate black lines erythrias. 



899. Asura hemixantha, n. sp. (Plate XXX. fig. 5.) 



cJ . Head orange, with some black on vertex ; antennae black ; 

 thorax orange slightly mixed with black ; hind tibiae with black 

 bands : abdomen black, the base and anal tuft orange. Fore wing 

 narrow, with the basal half orange, the terminal half black, the edge 

 of the orange area acutelj' angled at vein 6, then curved to middle 

 of inner margin. Hind wing orange, with broad terminal black 

 band ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 6, 7 on a long stalk, 

 8 from close to upper angle. 



Hah. Tenimbek (Doherty), 1 (^ type. Exj). 20 millim. 



900. Asura lydia. 



Bombi/x lydia, Donov. Ins. N. Holl. pi. 40. f. 3 (1805) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 298. 

 Dysauxes mediastina, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. iii. p. 27, ff. 505, 506 



(1827). 

 Asura yaudens, Wlk. ii. 486 (1854). 

 Setina pectinata, WUgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 46 (1860). 



Fuscous black ; palpi, frons, tegulae, and spots on shoulders orange ; 

 abdomen with the anal tuft and base of ventral surface orange. 

 Fore wing with broad irregular subbasal orange band not reaching 

 costa ; an antemedial spot below costa, sometimes forming a 

 triangular patch on costa; an elliptical or bar-shaped spot below 



