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SURA; ADIXOA; PARANTHRENE. By M. Gaede. 
astaroth. 
tonkiniana. 
ignicauda. 
pryeri. 
Phoenicia. 
cyanea. 
chalybea. 
alterna. 
soror. 
iomentosa. 
flammans. 
pilamicola. 
chinense. 
L. astaroth Ww. (95 g). Quite black with a metallic gloss. Hind legs in specimens from Sikkim with 
deep bluish-black hair, sometimes outside with white patches. The tibiae of Sylhet-specimens are blackish- 
brown inside. <$ 46—50 mm. Assam, Sikkim. — tonkinisrta Le Cerj exhibits only a very faint green metallic 
gloss on the forewing. Hindwing hyaline in the cell, the space behind it and also a little below it. Tonkin. 
31. Genus : Sura Wkr. 
Body rather slender. Proboscis stunted, palpi hairy below, rising to the frons. Antennae plain. Legs 
not with hair-tufts. Type: xylocopiformis Wkr. from Africa. 
S. ignicauda Hmps. (95 h). Body and wings metallic blue, hindwing somewhat lighter. Anal tuft 
orange red. Hindwing with 3 short hyaline spots near the base. 30—42 mm. Burma, Java. 
S. pryeri Drc. Antennae and legs black. Body brown, anal tuft bright red. Wings bronze brown with 
a violet lustre. Hindwing with 2 hyaline spots near the base. 28 mm. Borneo. 
S. Phoenicia Hmps. Thorax blackish-brown, patagia with red spots. Abdomen with a steel-blue 
gloss. Legs blackish-brown. Fore wing blackish-violet, bluish-green in the cell and at the costal margin. 
Hindwing violettish-black. Hyaline areas below the cell and above the inner margin. $ 26 mm. Borneo. 
S. cyanea Hmps. Body and forewing steel-blue, with a slight violet shine on the costal margin. 
Hindwing likewise steel-blue, the hyaline areas as in phoenicia. <J 36 mm. Java. 
S. chalybea Btlr. (coeruleonitens Bothsch.). Body black. Forewing with a dark metallic blue reflection, 
costal margin black, violet at the apex. Hindwing entirely metallic blue. 40 mm. Borneo, Singapore. 
32. Genus: Ariixoa Hmps. 
Antennae of <$ tufted. Palpi projecting beyond frons. All the veins of the forewing without stalks. 
Veins 5 and 6 of hindwing coincident, arising from the centre of the cross-vein. A strong hair-tuft on the 
anterior tibiae. Type: alterna Wkr. 
A. alterna Wkr. Violettish-brown. Thorax yellow in front and behind. Abdomen with yellow lateral 
spots on the first and fourth segments, and with dorsal spots on the second and seventh segments. Anal 
tuft black with a yellow r dot. Forewing violettish-brown with a triangular hyaline spot in the cell and a 
broadly margined hyaline spot in the distal area. $ 28 mm. South India. 
A. soror Le Cerj (95 h). Body violettish-black. Thorax behind and the base of the wings with orange 
spots. The fourth and second abdominal segments margined with orange. Fourth segment beneath margined 
with yellow, a white brightening above it. Wings hyaline. Forewing broadly margined with black, also 
the hindwing with a strong black cross-vein. <J 24 mm. Sikkim. 
A. tomentosa Schultze. Body violettish-black. Tegulae and patagia margined with yellowx Abdomen 
with 3 yellow r lines. Legs whitish. Wings hyaline. Forewing broadly margined with black, cross-vein yellow. 
Distal margin of hindwing broad black towards the apex, whitish at the inner margin, cross-vein yellow. 
21 —24 mm. Manila. 
33. Genus: Parauthrene Hbn. 
Palpi highly erected, the third joint short. Anal tuft strong. Veins 7 + 8 of forewing stalked. Veins 
5 and 6 of hindwing united. Type: tabaniformis L. from Europe. 
I. Antennae of q shortly bipectinated. 
P. flammans Hmps. Palpi, head, antennae, and legs orange. Body black. Tegulae margined with 
black. Abdomen with yellow segmental margins. Anal tuft black and yellow. Forewing with orange and 
black scales. Hindwing hyaline, veins yellow and black, the margin black. 26 -30 mm. Punjab. 
?P. pilamicola Strd. (95 li). Similar to flammans. Body probably light brownish. Patagia yellowish. 
Base of abdomen with dark spots, the end with yellow scale-hairs. Forewing yellow, brown towards the distal 
margin, veins and margins black. A short hyaline streak below" the cell at the base. Hindwing hyaline. 
Veins and margins with black and yellow scales. 25 mm. Formosa. 
II. Antennae of G serrate and tufted. Abdomen with a divided li a i r -1 uf t. 
P. chirsense Leech. Body black, collar yellow. Abdomen with 3 orange bands. Antennae and legs 
black. Forewing violettish-black, with brown scales in the centre, with a small yellow 1 basal spot. Hindwdng 
