360 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASTATIC [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 O. 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 ; ciHa 

 ochreous-white : underside paler along the posterior border of fore 

 wing and on the hind wing. Palpi and legs above pale brownish 

 ochreous. 



Expanse, d' ro' 2 Ipo "*'^^' 



Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Churia ochracea, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside paler ochreous than in C. nigrisigna ; no black 

 spot on the fore wing : underside pale ochreous ; thorax, palpi, and 

 legs above ochreous. 



Expanse -^ inch. 



Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Chxjria 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 \^ inch. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood. 



Fam. Heliothid.e. 



This family should be ranged between the Acontiidae and Antho- 

 philidse, the genera comprised in it having closer affinity with those 

 families than with the Xylinidee. 



A prominent character in the species of Heliothidse, not present, 

 so far as I know, in any other group, is that the tibiae of the front 

 legs are armed with spines, thus giving them the appearance of 

 miniature crabs' claws'. 



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 

 H. incarnata, which is generically distinct from the above-mentioned 

 species, the tibia is shorter and stouter, and is armed only with two 



^ Since writing the above, I find that Pctasia, a genus of Notodontidre, is 

 similarly armed. Both P. cassinca and P. nnheculosa have a single stout ter- 

 minal spine on the outer end of (he tibia. 



