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NEPHELOMILTA; ASURA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
suffusa. N. suffusa Hmps. (18 a) has flesh-tinted forewings with blackish, irregular transverse bands and 
an antemarginal row of spots. The reddish hindwing exhibits a blackish median line and a broad, blackish 
marginal band. — Nilgiris. 
32. Genus: Asisra Wkr. 
This most multiform Lithosiid-genus, containing now about 150 species known from Indo-Australia, 
exhibits many resemblances with Miltochrista in its exterior, but there are also some deviating groups of forms, 
by which the genus appears not to be completely homogeneous. They mostly are rather small insects approaching 
Miltochrista also in their habits. The larvae, several of which were described by Piepers, are short and stout, 
much haired; they presumably without exception live on lichens, pupate in oviform cocoons interwoven with 
hairs, and yield the imago already after an extremely short pupal stage, 5 to 10 days. 
Also in an anatomical respect, the genus is very closely allied to the Miltochrista ; the chief characteristic 
mark is the uppermost subcostal vein of the forewing, which does not rise separately from the cell, but is jointly 
petiolecl with the costal. The palpi are shorter than there and they do not project beyond the hairy frons. 
Proboscis strongly developed . Spurs short. In the venation no difference from Miltochrista except that mentioned 
above. The $ antennae are either longer or shorter doubly-combed, or ciliated. In the latter group in single 
species the <$<$ exhibit secondary sexual marks in the shape of distorted veins, scent-hairs or turned up costal 
folds. For the other species with a normal structure of the wings, the name Lyclene Moore has been established, 
which, however, can only be considered as a subgenus *). 
hem iron- A. hemixatltha Hmps. (171) has the narrowest wings of an orange-yellow colour, broadly bordered 
tha. black; the $ antennae are black, long-combed. — From Tenimber. 
bicolor a. A. bicolora Pagenst. is very similar, the vings are much broader, so are the more uniformly curved, 
black distal margins, the yellow ground-colour does not project so far towards the margin near the apex; antennae 
yellowish. -— From New Pomerania (Kinigunang). The figure presumably is that of a $. Nothing having been 
mentioned in the description about the <$ antenna, the insect may not belong hereto. 
armaria. A. arenaria Eothsch. $ antennae light brown, strongly combed, the whole insect otherwise dark 
buff with lighter hindwings. Length of forewings: 9 mm. Cumusi River in the north-east of British New Guinea; 
August, September. 
hjdht. A. lydia Donov. (= mediastina Hb., gaudens Walk., pectinata Wallgr.) (18 f) from Australia is a 
very variable species of a black ground-colour with orange-yellow spots. In the nomenclatural type the hind- 
wings are orange with a black median and marginal band; the forewing exhibits some antemedian, orange-yellow 
incompMa. spots. •— In incompleta form. nov. the latter are absent. Another form, in which the black median band of 
the hindwing has more or less vanished, so that there is a uniform orange basal area, may be denominated 
conjluens. confluens form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.). 
ocHcrioidcs. A. ocnerioides Eothsch. <$: antennae blackish-brown, strongly combed; head and thorax sulphury- 
yellow; abdomen, the basal two thirds greyish-white, the apical third dirty black. Forewings white; costal 
margin black, apex light grey, fringes grey. Hindwings white. similar, but larger, and only the last abdominal 
segment and the anal tuft black. Length of forewings: $ 11 l /. 2 , $ 12% mm. Biagi on the Mambara River in 
British New Guinea, February. One has on the forewing a dark grey oblique band from the beginning of 
siriguia. vein 7 to vein 1 (= ab. strigata Eothsch.). 
liparidia. A. liparidia Eothsch. <$\ head and antennae as well as the thorax orange-buff; abdomen somewhat 
lighter. Forewings of a bright orange-buff; near the base a large spot of an aniline-greyish brown, a broad 
postmedian transverse band of the same colour. Hindwings buff; a postmedian, interrupted, grey transverse 
band. $ similar, but darker, antennae combed, the band of the hindwing darker, broader and more distinct. 
Length of forewings: 12,5 mm. Cumusi River, British New Guinea; August, September. 
bipars. A. bipars Wkr. (17 d) has pale orange-yellowish wings with blackish-brown margins and veins, and 
ante- and postmedian transverse lines. The hindwings are yellowish with a black base and a similar border. 
habrotis. ■ — habrotis Meyr. is of a deeper orange tinge and the black colour is increased; in the marginal area of the 
forewing there are only yet 3 orange spots. •— From Queensland, New South Wales, and Tasmania. 
*) Like in the preceding genera, very numerous species of this genus, mostly from the Tring Museum have 
quite recently been described, after our tables to the Lithoria had already been finished; a part of the types of these forms 
will presumably be figured vet later on in the supplementaries. 
