NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXIII. 1916. 329 



250. Asura suavis (Pag.) 



Calligenia suavis Pagenstecher, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Naturh. xxxix. p. 126 (1886) (Am Islands). 



1 ? , Vulcan Island. 



251. Asura reticulata (Feld.) 



Cyme reticulata Felder, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xliii. p. 36 (1861) (Amboina). 



2 88,5 ? ?, Dampier Island. 



252. Asura manusi sp. nov. 



8. Antennae black, basal two segments scarlet, apical sixth umber brown; head 

 and thorax golden yellow, tegnlae and patagia slightly edged with scarlet, rest 

 faintly tinged with red ; abdomen salmon-pink. 



Forewing blackish slate, a large basal patch, a costal patch, and a very large 

 medial oblique patch reaching from costa to just beyond vein 2 golden yellow 

 surrounded by red hair-lines, a medial spot below vein 2 golden yellow edged with 

 red and joined to large medial patch by red hair-line, an antemedian patch below 

 median fold yellow suffused with scarlet ; a postmedian curved baud of coalescent 

 cone-shaped spots yellow strongly suffused with scarlet, an irregular scarlet sub- 

 terminal band. Hindwing buff suffused with pink, strongest near margins ; 



termen and fringe blackish slate. 



? . Rather variable in size of spots and bands on forewing ; differs from 8 

 in the thorax and head being orange to deep scarlet and the markings on forewing 

 also scarlet, though 2 V ? show some yellow, and 1 ? has forewings almost entirely 

 slate-colour owing to the absence of the medial and antemedial markings. 



Length of forewing : c? 12, ¥ 13-15-5 mm. Expanse : 8 27, ? 30-35 mm. 



5 88, 10 ? ?, Manus, Admiralty Islands. 



253. Asura reversa sp. nov. 



8. At first sight very close to preceding species, but distinguished at once by 

 the absence in both sexes of the broad slate-coloured terminal baud on the underside 

 of the forewings, and by the presence in the 8 of a slaty band on the underside of 

 the abdomen before the claspers. Antennae black-brown, basal three segments 

 scarlet ; head and thorax orange-scarlet ; abdomen salmon-pink. 



Forewing yellow, strongly suffused with scarlet, except in basal fifth and above 

 vein 2 to below subcostal between medial and postmedial bands, antemedial, post- 

 medial, and medial curved bands joined by longitudinal bars slate-coloured, an 



irregular zigzag subterminal band also slate-coloured. Hindwing buff, suffused 



with pale crimson in abdominal and submarginal portions, fringe deep buff. 



? . Similar. 



Length of forewing : c? 11-5-13, ? 12-15 mm. Expanse : c? 26-29, ¥ 28-34 mm. 



3 8 8, 6 ? ?, Manus, Admiralty Islands. 



254. Asura reversa dampierensis subsp. nov. 

 8 ? . Differ from r. reversa in the ground-colour of forewing being entirely 

 crimson scarlet and in the slate-coloured bauds being much more irregular. 



4 8 8, 4 ? ? , Dampier Island. 



