330 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



255. Asura bipartita sp. nov. 



3 ? . Orange-yellow, outer two-fifths of both wings dark slate-grey. 

 Length of forewing : 3 10, ? 13 mm. Expanse : 3 23, ? 30 mm. 



4 <?c?, 4 ? ? , Dampier Island. 



256. Asura dirhabdus sp. nov. 



3. Antennae, head, and thorax buffish orange ; abdomeu buff. 



Forewing buffish orange, antemedial and postmedial broad irregular bands sooty 

 black. Hindwing bright buff. 



? . Differs in the black bands of forewing being joined by a black line along 

 vein 1. 



Length of forewing : c? 9-11, ? 13 mm. Expanse : 8 21-25, ? 29 mm. 



5 c? 3, 3 ? ? , Dampier Island. 



257. Asura dirhabdus postfasciatus subsp. nov. 



c?. Differs from d. dirhabdus in the black transverse bands on fore wing beins 

 much more irregular and in their being joined along vein 1 as in the ? . On the 

 hindwing it differs in having a broad postmedial sooty shadow-band. 



?. Has this band much more distinct, and the bands of forewing differing as 

 in the 8 . 



3 c?<?, 4 ? ?, Manus, Admiralty Islands. 



258. Asura mylea sp. ncv. 



? . Antennae amber-yellow ; head, tegulae, and patagia golden orange ; rest 

 of thorax and abdomen greyish yellow. 



Foreiving golden orange, with four irregular sinuous and zigzag cinnamon-grey 

 bands. Hindwing semivitreous buff. 



Length of forewing : 13'5 mm. Expanse: 31mm. 



1 ? , Dampier Island. 



259. Philenora sordidior (Rothsch.) 



Eugoa mediopuncta sordidior Rothschild, Nov. Zool. xx. p. 222 (1913) (Kumusi River). 

 5 S3, 4 ? ?, Manus, Admiralty Islands. 



260. Philenora hypopolius sp. nov. 



? . Antennae brown-grey ; head and thorax silver grey ; abdomen pale mouse- 

 grey. 



Foreiving whitish cream-grey ; a curved and angled antemedial line, a median 

 stigma, a broad postmedial band forked below vein 2, a broken subterminal band 



and a terminal line pale chocolate-brown. Hindwing : basal half and a terminal 



band greyish white, rest mouse-grey. 



c?. Much smaller. 



Length of forewing : ? 12, c? 6 - 5 mm. Expanse : ? 27, 3 15 mm. 



1 3, 1 ?, Dampier Island. 



