ASUEA. 443 



end of cell ; the veins of terminal area streaked with fuscous ;• 

 cilia fuscous black. Hind -wing yellowish, the inner and terminal 

 areas suffused with crimson. 



Hah. N. Guinea {Saijer), type f c5' in Coll, Meyrick. Exi). 

 30 millim. 



929. Asura sexualis. (PlateXXX.fig.il.) 



Cyme sexualis, Feld. Sitz. Akad. Wieo, xliii. p. ,36 (1861); Kirbv, Cat. 

 Het. p. 300. 



2 . Scarlet. Fore wing with fuscous points at base of costa and 

 cell ; the antemedial line strongly excurved in cell, angled inwards 

 in submedian fold and not reaching below vein 1 ; a rather broad 

 medial line, excurved from below costa to submedian fold and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; the postmedial line oblique from below 

 costa to vein 4, where it is angled, then incurved ; a very indistinct 

 diffused irregular subtermiual band from costa to vein 2 ; the costa 

 towards apex and cilia blackish. Hind wing yellow tinged with 

 scarlet, deeper towards apex. 



Hah. Ajuboina, type t $ in Coll. Rothschild ; Aru ; Louisiades, 

 St. Aignan (Meek), 1 § . Kvj^. 32 millim, 



930. Asura agraphia, n. sp, (Plate XXX. fig. 30.) 



5 . Head yellow; palpi, antennae, and a spot on vertex brown ; 

 tegulse yellow, brown at base ; patagia yellow, brown at base and 

 on outer side ; thorax and legs brown, metathorax with yellow 

 patch ; abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing brown, with yellowish- 

 white patch in base of cell ; three antemedial spots — on costa, in 

 submedian interspace, and an elongate spot on inner margin ; a 

 large postmedial spot below costa and a quadrate patch in and 

 beyond lower angle of cell ; a small spot above inner margin. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, more orange towards base of inner 

 margin ; the apex and cilia fuscous. 



Hah. Java, Arjuno, 3u00 ft. {Boherty), 1 $ type. Exij. 40 millim. 



*931. Asura pyraula. (Plate XXX. fig. 12.) 



CalUgenia -pyraula, Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. (2) i. p. 704 (1886) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 308. 



2 . Head and thorax orange slightly tinged with crimson ; palpi 

 crimson ; tegulse, patagia, and mesothorax with fuscous spots ; 

 abdomen pale crimson, dorsally greyish towards base ; extremities 

 of fore and mid tibiae and tarsi fuscous. Fore wing orange, the 

 costal edge black towards base ; a subbasal black point in cell 

 and basal and subbasal fuscous marks on costa and larger mark 

 below the cell ; an antemedial fuscous line angled outwards on 

 subcostal and median nervures, then oblique, angled inwards in 

 submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; a medial line angled 

 outAvards on subcostal nervure and connected by a streak with the 

 ante- and postmeditil lines, then expanding, oblique, angled inwards 



