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ASURA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
phaeobasis. 
(jeminata. 
con fina. 
jlavia. 
nubifascia. 
simplifas- 
cia. 
homogena. 
melanoleu- 
ca. 
lutara. 
metamelas. 
postfusca. 
da sara. 
undulata. 
phaeopla- 
gia. 
cuneifera. 
chrysomela. 
A. phaeobasis Hmps. (17 1) is a small species with rather narrcnv wings with an orange-yellowish ground¬ 
colour and 2 blackish-brown transverse bands, the posterior one of which makes two distal projections on the 
upper and lower radial vein. The hindwing exhibits a darker, postmedian band. — Louisiads. 
A. geminata Pagenst. is very much like phaeobasis-, the basal transverse line is sharply angled towards 
the margin and more remote from the base, the distal one does not show the two strong teeth towards the margin; 
both the stripes are connected at the proximal margin by a brown stripe . Hindwings unmarked whitish-yellow. 
-— From New Pomerania, Kmigrmang. 
A. confina Hmjjs. is likewise somewhat similar; the ground-colour is more orange-yellow; the two 
transverse stripes are considerably broader, irregularly defined, above the proximal margin broadly connected 
and both reach above only to the subcostal, so that the costal margin remains yellow. Hindwing with an irre¬ 
gularly spotted antemarginal transverse band. — New Guinea. 
A. flavia Hmps. (171) from New Guinea and Queensland has a quite pale yellow ground-colour. The 
forewing exhibits 3 rather strongly dentate transverse stripes and between the posterior one and the margin 
another, faded macular stripe sending teeth towards the margin on the radial veins. 
A. nubifascia Wkr. (= punctifascia Wkr.) (Vol. II, 11 h) which extends into the palearctic region, is 
of a pale yellow ground-colour. The forewing exhibits antemedian and median rows of black dots and a broad, 
dark postmedian band strongly dentate distally. The hindwings are yellowish-white. -— In simplifascia Elives 
the median rows of dots are more separated and the postdiscal band entirely faded. — In homogena Seitz 
the marking on the forewings has almost entirely vanished. -— Himalaya, Tibet, Sikkim. 
A. melanoleuca Hmps. (17 d) has the marking very similar to nubifascia, but of a much stronger and 
more intense black, on an almost purely white ground-colour; also the hindwings exhibit blackish marginal 
and median markings. — From Sikkim. 
A. lutara Moore (= dividata Snell.) is a small species of a yellow ground-colour, distributed from 
Burma to Borneo, from Sumatra to Java; the forewing shows some black dots in the basal part; a proximal 
transverse line strongly flawed distally and a median line flawed towards the base touch each other in the 
discocellular; at the cell-end there is a black spot and behind it, like in many Miltochrista, a very strongly dentate 
posterior transverse line, and. behind it another irregular row of dots. The has a black apex of the abdomen, 
at the costal margin of the forewi: g behind the middle a small projection; it has a very narrow discocellular 
which is at the end strangulated and then again expanded to a sling and turns downward. 20 to 25 mm. The 
larva is according to Piepers very stout and short, entirely wrapped up in a very dense fur of black hah’; the 
cocoon is just as plushy. The larva lives on lichens of different trees, is very common, and the imago emerges 
already after a six days’ pupal stage. 
A. metamelas Hmps. (17 d) has yellowish forewings with blackish, irregular transverse markings 
which are finer in the $. The hindwing shows blackish marginal streak-spots. — Ceylon. — The Indian form: 
postfusca form. nov. shows extensive, blackish-brown, postdiscal dusting. 
A. dasara Moore (— chromatica Swinh.) (Vol. II, 11 h), already commented upon in the palearctic 
part, is yellowish with two darker transverse bands, which are reduced to dentate lines in the $, and a black 
median spot. — From India to Sumatra and Java; in Cashmir it crosses the palearctic frontier. 
A. undulata Swinh. is ochreous-yellow on its head and thorax, on the abdomen more ochreous-yellow- 
ish grey with a blackish-brown anal tuft and under surface. The orange-yellow forewing exhibits a black dot 
near the base and in the disc a very large, blackish spot which is twice angularly sinuate towards the costa 
and twice towards the margin, so that there only remain yellow spots at the margins. Hindwings vellowish- 
white. — Khasia Hills in Assam. 
A. phaeoplagia Hmps. (17 m). In this species and the following the costal margin of the forewing 
is anteriorly turned up and behind the middle covered with hair. The forewings are brown with yellow spots 
at- the costal, distal and proximal margins; the hindwings are blackish-brown with yellow fringes. -— Known 
from Java. 
A. cuneifera Wkr. looks very much like lutara Moore from which it differs at once by the inverted 
and hairy costal margin. 20 mm. — Borneo. 
A. chrysomela Hmps. The <$ is distinguished by the costal margin being strongly sinuate behind 
the middle and by the very much produced upper cell-angle. The forewing is black, with a broad, orange-yellow 
median band projecting distally on the lower radial vein. Hindwing black with an orange spot in the middle 
