454 AECTIAD^. 



medial diffused and irregularly dentate band, oblique and tisu:any 

 connected with the medial band below the cell, then bent outwards 

 to inner margin, with longer teeth on veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal 

 series of points. Hind wing pale reddish. 



Ab. 1. ocliracea. Ground-colour orange-yellow. 



Hah. Kashmik, 2 $ ; Kangea {Hocking), 1 $ ; Sikhisi ; Bombat 

 (SivinJioe), 3 $ type, Khandalla ; Nilgieis (Hampson), 1 c? , 3 $ ,. 

 types curvifascia and ocliracea ; Ceylon. Exj). 22-26 millim. 



959. Asura congerens. 



Cymella cong evens, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. f. 14 (1874) ; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 114 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 305. 

 Lyclene artocarin, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 30 ; Hmpsn. Moth& lad. ii, 



p. 114; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 304. 



S . Orange-yellow ; tegulse, shoulders, and patagia with fuscous 

 spots. Fore wing slightly tinged with red ; a fuscous subbasal spot; 

 an irregular diffused fuscous antemedial band ; a slightly sinuous 

 oblique medial band, its outer edge almost or quite confluent with a 

 discoidal spot ; aii irregular oblique postmedial band, its outer edge 

 angled outwards at veins 6 and 4, and below the cell becoming con- 

 fluent with the medial band. 

 5 much yellower. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim, 1 S , 1 $ , type aHocarpi y 

 Calctitta. Ex]y. 20-26 millim. 



*960. AsTira creatina. 



Paidia creatina, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 85, pi. 7. f. 8 (1879^) ; Kirby,. 

 Cat. Het. p. 364. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; vertex of head 

 with a black point ; shoulders, patagia, and mesothorax with paired 

 black poizits. Fore wing yellow, strongly suffused with crimson ; a 

 subbasal black point ; the costa streaked with black to the ante- 

 medial curved series of small, spots, the spot below the cell displaced 

 inwards ; a slightly oblique medial black line slightly bent inwards 

 above inner margin ; a prominent discoidal spot ; a strongly curved, 

 postmedial series of short streaks on the veins, the streaks on veins 

 4 and 1 displaced towards termen ; a terminal black line. Hind 

 wing yellow suffused with crimson, deeper in colour towards apex. 



Hah. Celebes. Exp. 20 millim. 



961. Asura floccosa. (Plate XXXI. fig. 13.) 



Nudaria floccosa, Wlk. xxxi. 274 (1864); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 114;: 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 360. 

 Nudaria suhcervina, Wlk. xxxi. 274 (1864); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 114; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 361. 



Pale greyish ochreous ; tegulaj, shoulders, patagia, and meso- 

 thorax with fuscous spots; tibiae marked with fuscous; wings 

 semihyaline. Fore wing with fuscous subbasal spot ; the costal 



