294 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Adisura, Moore. 

 Adisura ? morihunda. 

 Leucania morihunda, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 95, n. 150. 

 L. invaria, Walker, Lep. Het. ix. p. Ill, n. 78 (1856). 



Sydney. Coll. B. M. 



We have both type specimens of this species, so that 

 L. morihunda is clearly proved to be from Australia. 



I think Heliothis lacilinea, Walk., is best placed in this 

 genus ; it can hardly be a true Heliothis. 



CuRUBASA, Moore. 

 This genus, Adisura and Pradatta appear to me to be much 

 confused. Adisura is evidently an offshoot from Heliothis, and 

 has the same robust body, the general ground colour of pale 

 H. armigera, the dusky border to the secondaries often showing 

 a pale spot as in that genus. I would place under it Leucania 

 morihunda and the allied Pradatta artaxoides. In Curuhasa the 

 body is less robust, the palpi are more slender, the wings are 

 opaque and glossy, with rose-coloured costal and internal 

 borders. In Pradatta the palpi are considerably shorter than in 

 Adisura, the antennse of the males much thicker in the type 

 (though this difference does not hold with all the species), and 

 the subcostal branches of the secondaries are emitted from an 

 acute point, due to the strongly angulated discocellulars ; the 

 wings are almost as glossy as in Curuhasa, and are longitudinally 

 streaked with pale rose, after the manner of marking of a 

 Leucania. Of the named species in the Museum I refer to 

 Curuhasa, in addition to the type {C. heatrix), Leucania alaroidea, 

 Pradatta himaculata, P. decorata, and Leucania aureola. 



Curuhasa marginalis. 



Anthophila marginalis. Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 830 (1857). 



Adisura didcis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 368, pi. xxxvii. fig. 20, 



Campbellpore. Coll. B. M. 



In the type, which is faded, the cilia of the primaries are 

 entirely pink, as in Moore's description of his Adisura dulcis, 

 whereas in our Campbellpore specimen they are tipped with 

 white. This appears to me to be probably a sexual character, 

 but, even if not, I do not believe it to be of specific importance ; 

 and in any case Moore's C. dulcis is Walker's A. marginalis. 



Heliodes, Guen. 

 It is impossible to guess by what method Dr. Staudinger has 

 decided, to his own satisfaction, to fix the types of genera. His 

 first action appears to be to ignore the author's typical species; 

 his second action to substitute for it a species originally 

 admitted, with hesitation, by the author into his genus. 

 M. Guenee, when describing his genus Heliodes, indicates two 



