. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ASURA. 431 Hind wing with fuscous spots in and below lower end of cell; traces of postmedial dark lines and subterminal spots, which are more distinct on underside. Hah. SiKHiM (Pilcher), 1 c? , 1 $ , (Mmer) typef c^ in Coll. Elwes. Ex^. 36 millim. 910, Asura umhrifera, n. sp. (Plate XXX. fig. 14.) Pale brown; head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing strongly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with rather obscure antemedial, medial, and postmedial dark lines, the first two angled in cell, the last just beyond lower
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ASURA. 431 Hind wing with fuscous spots in and below lower end of cell; traces of postmedial dark lines and subterminal spots, which are more distinct on underside. Hah. SiKHiM (Pilcher), 1 c? , 1 $ , (Mmer) typef c^ in Coll. Elwes. Ex^. 36 millim. 910, Asura umhrifera, n. sp. (Plate XXX. fig. 14.) Pale brown; head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing strongly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with rather obscure antemedial, medial, and postmedial dark lines, the first two angled in cell, the last just beyond lower angle ; a diffused irregular very ill-defined subterminal band. Hind wing pale grey-brown, with traces of ante- and postmedial dark lines. Hab. Tibet, Yatung {Hohson), 2 J, 4 $ , type. Exp., S 30, 5 36 millim. Sect. III. Antennse of male with cilia and bristles. A. Fore wing of male with glandular swelling on costa beyond middle ; the median nervure bent up to subcostal nervure before end of cell, which then expands again; vein 5 absent; 6, 7, and 8, 9 stalked from the looped end of cell. 911. Asura lutara. Lydene lutara, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 300 (1859); Kirby, Cat. Het. p 310. Setina dividata. Snell. Veth's Midden-Sumatra, Lep. p. 37 (1880); Kirby, Cat, Het. p. 310. S. Yellow; mesothorax with black spots ; fore tibiae banded with black ; abdomen with the terminal segments black. Fore wing with subbasal black point ; an antemedial spot below the costa and two below the cell; the antemedial line angled outwards in cell and submedian fold, then oblique ; Fig. 3'i2.—Asura luiara, c?. 1-. the medial line incurved and almost or quite touching the antemedial line in cell; a spot in the loop at end of cell; the postmedial line very highly and irregularly dentate, running out to points at veins 6 and 3 and up to subcostal nervure at vein 4, then oblique; a series of spots beyond it, the spots at veins 7, 6, and 3 nearer termen. 5 . Fore wing with the discoidal spot in normal
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