CHURIA. 593 



Genus CHURIA. 



iypo. 

 Chiiria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881 , p. 359 nigrisigna. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of bead and moderately scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antennte of male ciliated ; thorax clotlied almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; tibia; slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the terraen 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 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 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 postmedial lines present oceUata. 



B. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines absent. 



a. Fore wing gre3--brown macuJaia. 



h. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous nigrisigna. 



7008. Churia ocellata. 



Anomis ocdlata, Butl. 111. ITet. B.M. 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 tibiae tinged with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing grey-brown with a reddish tinge and irroraterl 

 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. '. 



discoidal spot; a small blackish postmedial spot on costa with the 

 faint postmedial line arising from it, oblique to vein 6, 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 costal area and terminal area to vein 3 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Younr/), 4 (^ , Dalliousie, 

 1 c?, 1 ?, Simla (//ro/oi-f?), 1 (^ , 1 5, Kasauli, 1 $, Murree 

 (Harford), 1 $ , Dharmsala (Rocking), 3 c? , 4 9 ^J'pe ; Assam, 

 Ndgas. E.vp. 28-34 millim. 



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