484 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



2. Atolmis FLAVICAPILLA. 



Pallide fusca ; caput luteum ; abdomen et aloe postica? cinereee. 



Atolmis flavicapilla, H'ubn. Samml. Exol. Schmett. ii. Lep. iii. 

 Bomb. ii. Verce, vi. Lithosice, A. Tineiformes, b, f. I — 4 ; Verz. 

 Schmett. 164, 1699, 



Genus 86. ASURA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile, lineare, non longum. Palpi capite valde 

 breviores; articulus 3us conicus, 2o quadruplo brevior. Antennae 

 mediocriter pectinatae. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes 

 graciles ; tibiae anticae subtus dentatae, posticae calcaribus duobus 

 parvis apicalibus. Alae sat longae, mediocriter latae. Alae anticae ad 

 costam non arcuatae, postice rotundatae non angulatae. 



Male. Body slender, linear, not long. Palpi very much 

 sborter than the head ; third joint conical, about one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antennae moderately pectinated. Abdomen 

 not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs slender ; fore tibiae 

 armed with a long tooth ; hind tibiae with two small apical spurs. 

 Wings rather long, moderately broad. Fore wings straight in front, 

 rounded and not angular behind ; first and second inferior veins 

 near together at the base ; second much further from the third than 

 from the first; fourth about thrice further from the third than the 

 third from the second. 



1. ASURA CERVICALIS. 



Nigra ; caput antice luteum ; prothorax luteus ; abdomen luteo 

 trivittatum ; alee anticce luteo sexmaculata? ; posticce lutece 

 nigro latissime marginata?. 



Black. Head luteous in front. Proboscis testaceous. Pro- 

 thorax clothed with luteous hairs. Abdomen with three luteous 

 stripes. Fore wings with six sometimes subdivided luteous spots 

 which form three interrupted and abbreviated oblique bands in the 

 disk. Hind wings luteous, black towards the base and with black 

 borders which are broadest at the tips. Length of the body 4 — 4| 

 lines; of the wings 13 — 14 lines. 



a — c. New Holland. Presented by Major-General Hardwicke. 

 d. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 





