. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 4;iO ATICTIAD.^. :it extremities; abdomen white, the anal tuft pale yellow. Fore M-iiif; with the costal edge black towards base; a subbasal black l)oiirt ; the iintemedial line obli(]ue from costa to median nervure, wliere it is an<,'kd and connected by a streak in submcdian fold with the Binuous ni^edial line which is conjoined to the small discoidal lunule; thepostmcdial line minutely waved and excurvcd from below costa to su\»median fold ; a diffused minutely dentate subterminal line emitting short streaks on veins G and


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 4;iO ATICTIAD.^. :it extremities; abdomen white, the anal tuft pale yellow. Fore M-iiif; with the costal edge black towards base; a subbasal black l)oiirt ; the iintemedial line obli(]ue from costa to median nervure, wliere it is an<,'kd and connected by a streak in submcdian fold with the Binuous ni^edial line which is conjoined to the small discoidal lunule; thepostmcdial line minutely waved and excurvcd from below costa to su\»median fold ; a diffused minutely dentate subterminal line emitting short streaks on veins G and 4. Hah. N. Guinea, Kapaur {Doherty), 2 d, type; Queens- land, Cooktown. Exp. 18 millim. 908. Asura nubifascia. Bardnc mihifascia, Wlk. xxxi. 251 (18fi4) ; Butl. 111. Het. v. p. 38, pi. 86. f. 11; Hmpsn. Mollis Tnd. ii. p. 119 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. BarMncpunctifd^cia, Wlk. Cliar. Lep. Het. p. 9 (1809). Ltjclene dmplkifascia, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 389, pi. 32. f. 19; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. Pale yellow; fore legs marked wdth fuscous; abdomen -svhitish. Fore wing with subbasal black point ; the costal edge black towards base; an antemedial series of black points curved below costa and slightly angled inwards in submedian fold ; a double medial series of ¥\^\.—Asiirani(biJascia,(S. \. points below costa; apostmedialdiffused fuscous band, with darker streaks on the veins, its inner edge angled outwards at middle, its outer edge below costa, at vein 4, and on inner margin. Hind wing yellowish white. Ab. 1. simplicifascia. Fore wing with the two medial series of ])oints further apart; the postmcdial line with hardly a trace of markings beyond it. Ab. 2. Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete. JJaJ). , Himalayas, Dalhousie, 9 $ , Murree {Harford)., 1 (S ; Tibet, Yatung {Hohson), 9 $ ; Sikhim, type, {Atkinson, Lidderdale, Ehves) 4 cf , 4 $ . Exp. 34-42 millim. Type f simj}licifascia in Coll. Elwes. 909. Asura melanoleuca. (Plate XXX. fig. 8.) Milf


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