432 AECTTADiE. 



B. Fore wing of male with tbe cell very narrow ; vein 5 from 

 upper angle of cell ; 6 stalked witlx 7, 8, 9, and often also 

 in female. 



a. Fore wing with subterminal series of spots mefamelas. 



b. Fore wing without subterminal series of spots dasara. 



912. Asiira metamelas. 



Lydene semifascia, var. onetamelas, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 84, pi. 158. 

 f. 11 (1893). 



c? . Yellow ; shoulders with black points ; tips of patagia fuscous ; 

 fore tibige and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen with the terminal 

 half clothed with black hair. Fore wing with black point at base ; 

 the costa black towards base ; an oblique subbasal line interrupted 

 in cell ; the antemedial line slightly angled below costa, then 

 oblique and interrupted in submedian fold ; a medial spot below 

 costa, and line from cell to inner margin, incurved below vein 3 and 

 anastomosing with the antemedial line ; a postmedial point below 

 costa representing the displaced discoidal spot ; the postmedial line 

 highly and irregularly dentate, bent up to the subcostal nervure at 

 vein 4 ; a series of spots beyond it from costa to vein 3, the spot at 

 vein 4 displaced inwards. Hind wing with some fuscous marks on 

 termen towards apex. 



2 . Abdomen without black ; fore wing with the markings 

 finer ; the subbasal line broken up into spots, the medial line not 

 connected with the antemedial line ; the discal point prominent ; 

 the postmedial line less irregular. 



Hob. Ceylon^, Pundaloya (Green), 1 d type, 2 in Coll. Green. 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial line obscured by a large 

 area of fuscous suffusion. 



Hab. S. India, Belgaum ( Watson), 2 d , Nilgiris (Hampson), 

 l"c?,2$. 



913. Asura dasara. 



Setina dasara, Moore, Lep. E. I. 0. p. 303 (1859) ; Butl. 111. Het. vii. 



p. 32. pi. 122. ff. 7, 8; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 115 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 3.57. 

 Barsine chromatka, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 135 ($). 



(S . Yellow; shoulders and mesothorax with black points ; abdomen 



tinged with fuscous towards 

 extremity or wholly fuscous. 

 Fore wing with subbasal 

 black point ; the costal edge 

 black towards base ; an ante- 

 medial curved fuscous band ; 

 an obscure discoidal spot ; a 

 postmedial band formed by 

 'Fig. 2AZ.— Asura dasara, d . \. elongate fuscous patches in 



the intert-paces from below 

 the costa, very obliquely curved so as to nearly or quite join the 

 antemedial band below the cell, then excurved again. Hind wing 

 pale yellow. 



