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Show 360 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. 1, of the cell; discocellular obliquely concave; radial from its lower end immediately above angle of the cell; two upper median branches from beyond end of the cell, lower from one third before the end ; submedian and internal veins straight. Body stout, abdomen long ; palpi porrect, second joint laterally broad at the tip, clothed with coarse lax scales, third joint short, thick, half the length of the second; legs stout, squamose ; antennae setose. Type G. nigrisigna. CHURIA NIGRISIGNA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 13.) Male and Female. Upperside pale brownish ochreous ; fore wing with a small black spot on middle of the discocellular veinlet; cilia ochreous-white : underside paler along the posterior border of fore wing and on the hind wing. Palpi and legs above pale brownish ochreous. Expanse, 3 yo> 2 lyV iuch. Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. CHURIA OCHRACEA, n. sp. Male. Upperside paler ochreous than in G. nigrisigna ; no black spot on the fore wing : underside pale ochreous; thorax, palpi, and legs above ochreous. Expanse y8^ inch. Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. CHURIA MACULATA, n. sp. Male. Upperside pale brownish ochreous; cilia ochreous-white ; fore wing with a small black spot on middle of discocellular veinlet, and three equidistant spots on the submarginal border. Underside paler ochreous, palest along posterior border of fore wing and on the hind wing. Palpi and legs above brownish ochreous. Expanse yf inch. Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M . Mackwood. Fam. HELIOTHIDJE. This family should be ranged between the Aconthdae and Antho-philidae, the genera comprised in it having closer affinity with those families than with the Xylinidae. A prominent character in the species of Heliothidae, not present, so far as I know, in anjr other group, is that the tibiae of the front legs are armed with spines, thus giving them the appearance of miniature crabs' claws1. In Heliothis dipsacea, H. aduncta, Butler (a Chinese species), H. maritima, H. ononidas, H. armigera, and H. peltigera the fore tibia is long, narrow, and armed with two slender spines in front, as well as possessing other shorter spines on each side. In //. incarnata, which is generically distinct from the above-mentioned species, the tibia is shorter and stouter, and is armed only with two l Since writing the above, I find that Petasia, a genus of Notodontida;, is simdarly armed. Both P. cassinea and P. nubeculosa have a single stout terminal spine on the outer end of the tibia. |