CHARACOMA, 229 
below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of blackish points. 
Hind wing white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 tinged 
with brown; the underside with the costal area white with diffused 
brownish spot beyond middle. 
Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Njoro (Cholmley), 1 g type. xp. 20 
miliim. 
Genus CHARACOMA. 
Type. 
Characoma, Wk. xxvii. 106 (1863) .............000ee0ees S00 5a0000e dtbuliite. 
Corticuta, Wik. Journ. Liun. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 52 (1864)... scoparioides. 
Paraxia, Méschl. Abh. Seuck. Ges. xvi. p. 120 (1890) ......... nilotica. 
Hypothripa, Ampsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. d83 (L894) «0... curiosa. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of headand moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smvoth; eyes large, round ; 
antenne of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the meta- 
thorax with large spreading crest; tibie moderately fringed with hair; 
abdomen typically with dorsal crests on basal segments ouly. Fore wing short 
and broad, the costa highly arched near base, the apex rounded, the termen 
evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 trom near angle of ceil ; 
6 from upper angle; 9 from LO anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow 
arecole; 11 from cell, Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 
3 and 5 stalked, 4 coincident with 3; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomousing 
with the cell to middle. 
Seer. I. (Corticata.) Abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. 
A. Fore wing witn double oblique sinuous antemedial line. 
a. Fore wing with large rounded brown apical patch ... euriosa, 
b. Fore wing without dark apical patch ............-. eee vulluta, 
B. Fore wing with the antemedial line single, erect, and 
almost medial. 
a. Kore wing tinged with rufous and with small blood-red 
spot in submedian fold beyond postmedial line ...... scoparivides. 
b. Fore wing purptish grey suffused with fuscous brown. xélutica, 
6486. Characoma curiosa. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 10.) 
Selepa curiosa, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Sec. 1800, p. 200 ; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. 
il, Pp, 088. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey; tegule with 
black line near tips; abdomen with the crests blackish ; palpi with 
some black at sides of Ist and 2nd joints; tarsi black ringed with 
white. Fore wing grey-white with a violaceous tinge, slightly 
suffused in parts with red-brown especially on inner area; ante- 
medial line double, blackish, excurved, strongly angled inwards in 
submedian fold; an indistinct oblique slightly sinuous medial line ; 
a slight white discoidal lunule deliued on outer side by some blackish 
scales; postmedial line dark brown defined on outer side by white, 
the line punctiform except on inner area, oblique from costa to 
vein 6, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some sinall 
black-brown spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line dark brown, 
