428 



AECTIAD^. 



Hob. AusTRAMA, Hardwicke Coll., 4 6, type; N. S. Wales, 

 Sydnej', 2 S (MatJmu) ; Victoria {Raynor), 1 c? , 1 § ; Tasmania, 

 Launceston (/. /. Walker), 2 S . Exp. 26-32 miUim. 



903. Asura conferta. 



Pitane conferta, Wlk. ii. 533 (1854) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 66, pi. 104. 



flF. la,b,c,d; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 106 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 299. 

 Nepita anila, Moore, Lep. E. I. 0. p. 302 (1859) ; Eirby, Oat. Het. p. 299. 

 Nepita siqnata, Wlk. xxxi. 240 (1864). 



Nepita aqrota, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc 1877, p. 336 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 299. 

 mpita ochracea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 336 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 299. 

 Nepita limbata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 336 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 299. 

 Nepita conferta, \ar.fusoa, Hmpsn. 111. Het. is. p. 84, pi. 158. f. 6. 



Deep orange ; antennae black except at base ; palpi, vertex of 

 head, shoulders, patagia, thorax, and legs with black spots ; abdomen 

 dorsally black. JFore wing with subbasal black patches on costa and 



below the cell, sometimes con- 

 joined ; antemedial and medial 

 waved black bands, the former 

 angled outwards in cell to join 

 the latter, which is angled in- 

 wards ; a discoidal spot ; a 

 waved postmedial band strongly 

 Fig. MO.— Asura conferta, S- h ^^"^ outwards from below costa 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) to vein 4 ; a subterminal ir- 



regularly dentate band emitting 

 spurs to termen at costa and veins 6 and 4 and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; cilia black. Hind wing orange, with discoidal point ; a 

 broad terminal black band with irregular inner edge. 



Ab. 1. cegrota. Hind wing with the terminal band very broad and 

 running up on inner area nearly to base. 



Ab. 2. anila. The terminal band of hind wing rather narrower. 

 Ab. 3. Pore wing with the bands narrower. 



(a) ochracea. Hind wing with the terminal band broad and 



running up on inner area to near base. 

 (6) limbata. Hind wing with the terminal band narrower. 

 Ab. 4. fusca. The orange areas entirely suifused with brown. 

 Hah. "N. India," types cegrota and limhata ; Bombay, type anila, 

 (Swinhoe) 4 c5" , 2 $ , Poona, 1 c? ; Eelgaum ( Watson), 1 $ ; Nilgiris 

 (^Uampson), 5 c? , 1 5 ; Coimbatore (Walhouse), 1 d" , 1 $ type 

 ochracea ; Ceylon (Templeton), \ S type and type signata, {Oreen) 

 5 cJ , type fusca. Exp. 24-34 millim. 



Larva. Short, dilated at middle ; black-brown ; each somite with 

 tufts of long black hair ; some dorsal orange marks on the 1st somite 

 forming a band with black spots on it ; subbdorsal spots on 6th 

 somite and a dorsal series of points from 6th to terminal segment, 

 which has an orarge band. 

 Cocoon slight. 



*904. Asura erythrias. (Plate XXX. fig. 9.) 

 Miltochrista erythrias, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 400 (1893). 

 S . Head orange ; antennae black ; thorax and abdomen orange- 



