50 • THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus CHURIA. 



Churia, Moore, Pioc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 359; Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 135. 

 Forewiug elongated, narrow, rectangular ; costal vein extending to two-thirds 

 the margin ; first subcostal emitted at one-half and second at one-eighth before end 

 of the cell, second trifurcate, third and fourth at equal distances from base of second, 

 fifth from end of the cell and shghtly touching third at its base ; discocellular bent 

 at its upper and lower end and very convex in the middle, radials from the angles ; 

 upper median branch from end of the cell, middle branch from one-eighth and lower 

 from beyond one-third before end of the cell ; submedian slightly curved at the base : 

 hindwing short; costal vein straight, extending to apex; two subcostal branches 

 from end 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 length of the second ; legs 

 stout, squamose ; antennae setose. 



CHURIA MACULATA (Plate 150, Fig. 7). 

 Churia maculata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 360. 



Male. Upperside pale brownish-ochreous ; cilia ochreous-white : forewing 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 

 forewing and on the hindwing. Palpi, and legs above brownish-ochreous. 



Expanse 11 inch. 



Family HELIOTHID.E. 



Imago of moderate or small size. Body smooth; thorax stout; tibijB armed 

 with spines. Flight mostly diurnal. Larva cylindrical, not attenuated ; with sixteen 

 legs. Feeds exposed on low plants, preferring the flowers. Pupa subterranean. 



Genus HELIOTHIS. 



Heliothts, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 2 (1806) ; Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 91 (1816); Guenee, 



Noct. ii. p. 177 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xi. p. 680 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 361. 

 Melideptria (part), Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 262 (1818-25). 

 Hi'Uotis, Sodoff:^ky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. pt. vi. p. 15 (1837). 



Forewing elongated, costa slightly arched towards the end, apex pointed, exterior 

 margin oblique, convex hindward, posterior margin shghtly recurved; cell long, 

 extending to three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of 

 the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, third at one-third from base of second, and fourth 



