. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. CHUUIA. o9;} Genus CHURIA. Type. Chiiria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 359 nigrisigna. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of bead and moderately scaled, tlie 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenna? of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibire slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 4 from near angle of cell;
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. CHUUIA. o9;} Genus CHURIA. Type. Chiiria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 359 nigrisigna. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of bead and moderately scaled, tlie 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenna? of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibire slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 4 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areoie ; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the ante- and postniedial lines present ocellata. B. Fore wing with the ante- and postniedial lines absent. a. Fore wing grey-brown 7nacnJafa. b. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous nigrisigna. 7008. Churia ocellata. Anomis ocellata, Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 72, pi. 131. f. 4(1889); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 418. Head and thorax grey-brown with a reddish tinge; palpi at base, pectus and legs whitish, the fore femora fuscous above, the fore and mid tibia) tinged with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with while ; abdomen gre)* tinged with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey-browu with a reddish tinge and irroratert and striated with black ; a small antemedial blackish spot on costa with traces of a waved line from it to inner margin ; a blackish. Fig. 235.— Churia ocellata, S- \- discoidai spot; a small blackish postmcdial spot on costa with the faint postniedial line arising from it, oblique to vein G, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, excurved at vein 1 ; traces of a punctiform subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown; the underside whitish, the
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