430 AECTIAD^. 



at extremities ; abdomen white, the anal tuft pale yellow. Fore 

 wing with the costal edge black towards base ; a subbasal black 

 point ; the antemedial line oblique from costa to median nervure, 

 where it is angled and connected by a streak iu submedian fold with 

 the sinuous medial line which is conjoined to the small discoidal 

 lunule; thepostmedial line minutely waved and excurved from below 

 costa to submedian fold ; a diffused minutely dentate subterminal 

 line emitting short streaks on veins 6 and 4, 



Bab. S.W. N. Guinea, Kapaur (Boherty), 2 cJ , type ; Queens- 

 land, Cooktown. E.vp. 18 millim. 



908. Asura nubifascia. 



Barsine nubifascia, Wlk. xsxi. 251 (1864) ; Butl. 111. Het. v. p. 38, pi. 86. 



f. 11 ; Hmpsn. Moths Tnd. ii. p. 119 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. 

 Barsine pjinctifascia, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 9 (1869). 

 Lyclene simplici fascia, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 389, pi. 32. f . 19 ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 305. 

 Pale yellow ; fore legs marked with fuscous ; abdomen whitish. 



Pore wing with subbasal 

 black point ; the costal 

 edge black towards base ; 

 an antemedial series of 

 black points curved below 

 costa and slightly angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; 

 a double medial series of 

 Fig. 341. — Asum nuhijascia, c?. \. points excurved below 



costa; a postmedial diffused 

 fuscous band, with darker streaks on the veins, its inner edge 

 angled outwards at middle, its outer edge below costa, at vein 4, 

 and on inner margin. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Ab. 1. simplicifascia. Pore wing with the two medial series of 

 points further apart ; the postmedial line with hardly a trace of 

 markings beyond it. 



Ab. 2. Pore wing with the markings almost obsolete. 

 Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Dalhousie, 9 5 , Murree {Harford), 1 ^ ; 

 Tibet, Tatung (Hobson), 9 $ ; Sikhim, type, (Atkinson, Lidderdale, 

 Elwes) 4 c? , 4 $ . Exp. 34-42 millim. Type t simplicifascia in Coll. 

 Elwes. 



909. Asura melanoleuca. (Plate XXX. fig. 8.) 



Miltochrista melanoleuca, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 120 (1894). 

 c? . Yellowish white ; palpi towards tips, and antennae brown ; 

 patagia, pro- meso- and roeta thorax spotted with black ; tarsi 

 ringed with fuscous ; abdomen with blackish band towards ex- 

 tremity and with some yellowish on sides. Pore wing with diffused 

 blackish patch on basal part of costal area ; a curved antemedial 

 series of four spots ; a streak above medial part of inner margin ; 

 two medial series of spots excurved below costa and somewhat 

 coalescing in cell ; a broad postmedial black band with sinuous 

 inner edge and very irregular outer edge running out to apex and 

 tornus, and emitting teeth to near termen on veins 6 and 4. 



