VENUSIA.—ASTHENA. ALT 
3835. Venusia dharmsale, Bul. P. Z. 8.1883, p. 169; C. § Sino. 8551.. 
Rufous, irrorated with fuscous; frons chestnut. Fore wing 
with about six indistinct fuscous lines more or less reduced to 
specks ; indistinct ante- and postmedial narrow ferruginous bands. 
Hind wing with traces of three fuscous lines and a narrow medial. 
ferruginous band. 
Hab. Kulu; Dharmsala. xp. 30 millim. 
Oy lates 
Genus ASTHENA. LU) 
Asthena, Hiibn. Verz. p. 310 (? 1818). 
~ Pseudostegania, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 416. 
Laciniodes, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 393 (1894). 
/ Laciniodes, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 188. 
Type, A. candidata, Schiff., from Europe. 
Range. Nearctic and Palearctic regions ; Japan ; Himalayas. 
Palpi clothed with scales and reaching just beyond the frons,. 
which is rounded ; hind tibie with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing 
with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from middle of disco- 
cellulars ; 6 from upper angle ; 10 anastomosing with 11, and then 
with 8,9 to form the double areole. Hind wing with vein 3 from 
near angle of cell; 5 from above middle of discocellulars, which 
are oblique ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 7 to just beyond. 
middle of cell. 
In the typical section the antenne of male are serrate and. 
fasciculated. 
Szor, IT. (Laciniodes). Antenne of male thickened and ciliated. 
3836. Asthena plurilinearia, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 645; C. & S.. 
no. 3996. i: 
~ Acidalia unistirpis, Butl. Ill. Het. ii, p. 51, pl. 37, fig. 7. & 
Ochreous ; the palpi, frons, vertex of head, and collar. banded. 
with black. Fore wing with numerous waved dark lines; a dark 
patch on base of costa; a curved 
subbasal line; an antemedial 
line angled below costa; a black 
spot at end of cell; a postmedial 
line angled on vein 4; two of 
the waved lines on outer area 
prominent, with a series of white 
Fig. 194. spots beyond them, those be- 
Asthena plurilinearia, $. 1. tween the costa and vein 4 being 
on a dark patch; a marginal 
dark line. Hind wing with waved lines ; a subbasal straight line ; 
cell-speck ; medial line excurved at lower angle of cell; two waved 
postmedial lines with series of white spots beyond them; a dark 
marginal line. 
Hab. Japan; N.W. Himalayas; Sikhim; KhAsis, Exp., 3 34, 
2 40 millim. 
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