. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 432 , B. Fore wing of male wiili the cell very narrow ; vein rt from iimuM- aiiijle of coll; •> stalked witli 7, S, t), and often also in ft'inale. a. Fore win^ witli siibterniinal series of spots mef%melas. b. Foro wing witiiout subterminal scries of spots dasara. 912. Asura metamelas. Li/clene srmifascia, var. metamelas, Ilinpsn. 111. Hot. ix. p. 84, pi. lo-^. ^f. 11 (18i»3). cJ . Yellow ; shoulders with black points ; tips of patagia fuscous ; fore tibi;e and tarsi banded with black; abdomen with the terminal ha
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 432 , B. Fore wing of male wiili the cell very narrow ; vein rt from iimuM- aiiijle of coll; •> stalked witli 7, S, t), and often also in ft'inale. a. Fore win^ witli siibterniinal series of spots mef%melas. b. Foro wing witiiout subterminal scries of spots dasara. 912. Asura metamelas. Li/clene srmifascia, var. metamelas, Ilinpsn. 111. Hot. ix. p. 84, pi. lo-^. ^f. 11 (18i»3). cJ . Yellow ; shoulders with black points ; tips of patagia fuscous ; fore tibi;e and tarsi banded with black; abdomen with the terminal half clothed with black hair. Fore wing with black point at base : the costs black towards base ; an oblique subbasal line interrupted in cell ; the antemcdial line slightly angled below costa, then oblique and interrupted in submedian fold ; a medial spot below costa, and line from cell to inner margin, incurved below vein 3 and anastomosing with the antemcdial line ; a postmedial point below costa representing the displaced discoidal spot; the postmedial line highly and irregularly dentate, bent up to the subcostal nervure at vein 4 ; a series of spots beyond it from costa to vein 3, the spot at vein 4 displaced inwards. Hind wing with some fuscous marks on termen towards apex. $. Abdomen without black; f )re wing with the markings finer; the subbasal line broken up into spots, the medial line not connected with the antemediil line; the discal point prominent; the postmedial line less irregular. Hah. Ckylox, Pundaloya {(Jreen), 1 J type, $ in Coll. Green. Exp. 22 raillim. Subsp. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial lino obscured by a large area of fuscous suffusion. Hah. S. India, Belgaum (Watson), 2 S, Nilgiris (Hampson), Id,2$. 913. Asura dasara. Seiina dasara, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 303 (1859); Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 32. pi. 122. ff. 7, 8; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 115; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 357. Barsine chromatica, Swinli. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 135 (2). J . Yellow: should
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