CLETHKOPHORA. CHURIA. 



417 



grass-green ; abdomen deep red. Fore wing with traces of an 

 antemedial curved dark line ; a speck at end of cell ; a curved pale 

 and dark line from costa just before apex to inner margin beyond 



middle ; an indistinct dentate and angled submarginal line. Hind 

 wing deep red. Underside orange-red ; the costa of fore wing 

 and the hind wing irrorated with black. 



2 with the abdomen and hind wing much yellower. 



Hob. Japan ; Sikhim. Exp., <$ 44, $ 54 millim. 



Genus CHURIA. 

 Churia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 359. 



Type, G. nigrosigna, Moore. 



Range. Himalayas ; Assam ranges ; Calcutta ; Western Ghats ; 

 Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 naked and variable in length. Antennae minutely ciliated in 

 male. Fore wing with the apex somewhat rounded. Hind wing 

 with vein 5 from lower angle of cell ; 3 and 4 on a short stalk, or 

 from cell. 



SECT. I. Outer margin of both wings not excised below apex. 



2318. Churia arcuata, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 779; C. $ S. no. 1803. 



Anomis iconica, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 992 ; C. 8f S. no. 2239 ; Hrnpsn. 



111. Het. ix, pi. 167, fig. 8. 



Briarda cervina, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1968; C. & S. no. ^3010. 

 Anomis cervina, var. instabilis, ButL III. Het. vii, p. 72, pi. 131, 



tig. 3. 

 Anomis figlina, ButL III. Het. vii, p. 71, pi. 131, fig. 2. 



Fig. 234. Churia arcuata, <$ . \. 



Pale red, sometimes purplish. Fore wing with two indistinct 

 waved medial lines, bent outwards at median nervure ; two waved 

 post medial oblique lines reaching the inner margin near outer 



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