. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 430 AECTIAD^. at extremities; abdomen white, the anal tuft pale yellow. Fore wing with the costal edge black towards base; a subbasal black point; the antemedial line oblique from costa to median nervure, where it is angled and connected by a streak iu submedian fold with the sinuous medial line which is conjoined to the small discoidal lunule; thepostmedial line minutely waved and excurved from below costa to submedian fold ; a diffused minutely dentate subterminal line emitting short streaks on veins 6 and 4,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 430 AECTIAD^. at extremities; abdomen white, the anal tuft pale yellow. Fore wing with the costal edge black towards base; a subbasal black point; the antemedial line oblique from costa to median nervure, where it is angled and connected by a streak iu submedian fold with the sinuous medial line which is conjoined to the small discoidal lunule; thepostmedial line minutely waved and excurved from below costa to submedian fold ; a diffused minutely dentate subterminal line emitting short streaks on veins 6 and 4, Bab. N. Guinea, Kapaur (Boherty), 2 cJ, type; Queens- land, Cooktown. 18 millim. 908. Asura nubifascia. Barsine nubifascia, Wlk. xsxi. 251 (1864) ; Butl. 111. Het. v. p. 38, pi. 86. f. 11 ; Hmpsn. Moths Tnd. ii. p. 119 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. Barsine pjinctifascia, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 9 (1869). Lyclene simplicifascia, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 389, pi. 32. f. 19; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. Pale yellow; fore legs marked with fuscous; abdomen whitish. Pore 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 Fig. 341.—Asum nuhijascia, c?. \. points excurved below costa; a postmedial diffused 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. Pore wing with the two medial series of points further apart; the postmedial line with hardly a trace of markings beyond it. Ab. 2. Pore wing with the markings almost obsolete. Hah. Himalayas, Dalhousie, 9 5 , Murree {Harford), 1 ^; Tibet, Tatung (Hobson), 9 $ ; Sikhim, type, (Atkinson, Lidderdale, Elwes) 4 c? , 4 $ . Exp. 34-42 millim. Type t simplicifascia in Coll. Elwes. 909. Asura melanoleuca. (Plate XXX. fig. 8.) Miltochrista
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