ASURA. 



433 



5 . Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial bands usually 

 reduced to dentate lines and well separated ; a prominent disooidal 

 spot. 



Hah. jS'.W, Himalayas, Kangra {Hockiwj), 5 S , 1 $ ; Sikhiji 

 {Dudgeon), 2 2 ; Assam, Khasis, 1 d" ; Xilgiris {Lindsay, Hampson), 

 ] d" , 1 5 , type chromatica; Sumatra {Forbes), 1 d ; Java {Hursjield), 

 1 (S type. Kvp. d 26, $ 30 millim. 



C. Fore wing of male with the costa turned over on upper 

 side and fringed with hair for a short distauoe beyond 

 middle : the discocellulars bent upward to subcostal 

 nervure between veins 5 and 6. 



a. Fore wing with the whole discal area occupied by a 



fuscous patch phceoplaria,. 



b. Fore wing witliout fuscous patch caneifera, 



914. Asura phseoplagia, n. sp. (Plate XXX. fig. 4.) 



S . Head and thorax yellow ; shoulders and mesothorax with 

 black spots ; extremities of tibiae and tarsi black ; abdomen 

 blackish, grey towards base. Fore wing yellow, with a large 

 fuscous patch occupying the greater part of wing, leaving the base 

 yellow to the antemedial line, which is retracted to costa ; a sub- 

 basal black spot ; the costal edge black towards base ; a fuscous 

 spot below the cell before the antemedial line ; yellow patches on 

 middle of costa and inner margin and on costa towards apex ; the 

 termen yellow, with projections from the fuscous patch at veins 6 

 and 4. Hind wing pale fuscous, yellowish towards base and iaiior 

 margin : the cilia yellow. 



Mab. Java, Mt. Arjuno (DoZier^;/), 3 d' jtype. Exp. 18 millim. 



915. Asura cuneifera. 



Lyclene cvmeifera, W^k. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 113 (I8G2) ; Swinh. 

 Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 102 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 310. 



S . Yellow ; vertex of head, tegulae, and mesothorax with fuscous 

 spots; pectus and abdomen whitish, the latter with the terminal 



half clothed with black hair. 

 Fore wing with fuscous points 

 at base of costa and cell ; 

 short subbasal streaks on eosta 

 and in and below cell ; the 

 antemedial line angled in cell, 

 then oblique ; the medial line 

 Fig. 344.— ^sz«^M«CT/era,^. i. oblique, slightly angled on 



subcostal nervure, touching 

 the antemedial line in cell, then angled acutely outwards on median 

 nervure ; a very highly and irregularly dentate postmedial line, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique ; a series of 

 points beyond it, the point at vein 4 displaced towards termen ; 

 cilia brownish at extremities. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Hab. Borneo, Sarawak ( WaUace), 1 6 . Exp, 20 millim. Type 

 in Mus. Oxon. 



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