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ASURA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
jlavida. 
dentifera. 
quadrifas- 
ciota. 
crocota. 
fulguritis. 
birivula. 
asaphes. 
cctophaea. 
reducta. 
varians. 
bicolor. 
umbrosa. 
nebulosa. 
inconspicua 
oblique. 
fuscalis. 
ochrcomacu- 
lata. 
A. flavida Btlr. (17 f). The anterior transverse line is connected with the base on the submetuan 
fold by a blackish-brown longitudinal stripe, on the median with the median line which in its turn is united 
with the posterior transverse line at the proximal margin; behind it an irregularly dentate line. — Australia, 
Salomons. 
A. dentifera limps, is smaller, with narrower wings than flavida ; the anterior transverse line and 
the median line are much closer together; the ground-colour is more orange-yellow. — From New Guinea 
(Milne Bay). 
A. quadrifasciata Rothsch. In the 2 the head, antennae and thorax are buff-orange, on the tegulae 
a small black spot; abdomen in the basal half buff-grey, its posterior half light sooty black with an orange- 
buff anal tuft. Forewings buff-orange; 2 spots at the base, 4 curved and angled transverse bands connected 
by transverse spots with each other and with the border, border and apical third of the costa black, hindwing 
in the basal half orange-buff, otherwise black. Length of forewings: 13 mm. Tolitoli in North Celebes; November, 
December. 
A. crocota Hmps. ( — melitaula Meyr. 1889, nec 1886) (17 f), is similar to quadrifasciata, but of a 
deeper orange-yellow, and the transverse lines are not connected with each other. — New Guinea, Louisiads. 
A. fulguritis Hmps. (17 f) is smaller than crocota, of a paler yellow, the median line is connected at 
the proximal margin with the posterior transverse line behind which there is a row of short marginal streaks. — 
Pulo Laut, Bali. 
A. birivula Hmps. (17 f) is easily recognizable by the double, dentate, posterior transverse line, behind 
which there are strong vein-streaks; the median line is absent and the anterior transverse line projects very 
much towards the margin on the submedian fold. — Borneo. 
A. asaphes Hmps. (17 m) is a very small species with orange-yellow forewings, on which there are 
pale brownish transverse lines, at the cell-end a black dot. — Borneo-Java. 
A. ectophaea Hmps. (17 1) has ochreous-yellowish forewings with 2 black transverse lines; the posterior 
is strongly dentate; the marginal area is dusted blackish-brown and exhibits traces of an irregular transverse 
line. The hindwing is dusted dark at the border. — reducta form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) has the transverse mar¬ 
kings quite extinct, and the dark marginal dusting is scarcely noticeable, and on the hindwings it is absent 
altogether. — North Australia. 
A. varians Hmps. (17 g) is an uncommonly variable animal. The forewings are either quite blackish- 
brown, or they exhibit orange-red spots only at the costal margin or also at the proximal margin; in the lightest 
specimens also the border is orange-red, and there appear orange antemedian spots. The $ is usually of a some¬ 
what lighter brown ground-colour and still more extensively spotted orange, also in the discal area, so that 
the wing at last turns preponderantly orange-red with black markings. — Ceylon. 
A. bicolor Rothsch. 1 quite sooty black. A large, oval, orange-red spot occupies the central third of 
the forewing below the subcostal, and a similar spot on the hindwing extends from the costa to the median 
fold. The § is similar, but the spot on the forewing is larger. Length of forewings: $ 12 mm, $ 11 mm. Setekwa 
River in Dutch New Guinea, at altitudes of 3000 ft; in August. 
A. umbrosa Hmps. (17 g) somewhat resembles melapoleuca Hmps., but it has no combed antennae, 
but only ciliated ones, and it is smaller and of a duller colouring. At the base of the costal margin there is a 
large, triangular, brown spot. — Assam. 
A. nebulosa Moore (17 g). TJie forewings are yellow; the anterior transverse line is united with the 
median line at the proximal margin to a large brown spot flowing together with a broad postdiscal band. — 
Sikkim. 
A. inconspicua Moore (17 h) has orange-red forewings, a somewhat faded anterior transverse line, 
a similar rather oblique median line, a black discal dot and dark vein-streaks before the margin. — In f. obliqua 
Hmps. the ground-colour is more ochreous-yellowish. — f. fuscalis Hmps. (17 g) is entirely suffused with blackish- 
brown except two orange spots at the costal margin and a similar spot at the proximal margin behind the middle. 
— India. 
A. ochreomaculata Beth.-Bcik. Head, abdomen, and stripes on the thorax and shoulder-covers are 
orange-yellow. The grey forewings exhibit, before and behind the middle as well as at the base, feebly curved 
pink macular stripes; between the two middle ones there is at the costal and proximal margins one pale ochreous- 
yellow spot each, the upper one being smaller; at the margin a series of small reddish spots. Hindwings ochreous- 
yellow, with a broad, grey marginal band. — This animal entirely deviating from all the species known originates 
from New Guinea (Dinawa. August). 
