230 NOCTUIDE. 
slight, incurved below costa where there is a dark brown apical 
patch beyond it, then minutely dentate; a terminal series of dark 
brown points. Hind wing white, the terminal area and cilia tinged 
with brown fromapex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area 
suffused with fuscous except towards base. 
Hab. Burma, Rangoon, 13,1Qtype. Hep. $24, 2 26 millim. 
6487. Characoma vallata. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 11.) 
Hypothripa vallata, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 47. 
Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and red-brown ; 
abdomen grey tinged with brown, the crests darker; palpi with 
blackish spots at sides of Ist and 2nd joints; tarsi brown ringed 
with white; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore 
wing grey more or less suffused with red-brown and fuscous brown 
and with some dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by black 
strive from costa and cell; antemedial line rather indistinct, blackish, 
double, oblique, sinuous; medial line slight, oblique, sinuous ; an 
oblique red-brown discoidal striga ; postmedial line blackish defined 
on outer side by white, oblique and sinuous to vein 6, slightly in- 
curved at discal fold, then excurved at median nervules and vein 1, 
a more or less prominent patch of fuscous suffusion beyond it on 
costa ; subterminal line indistinct, diffused, whitish defined on inner 
side by fuscous, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal 
series of black points. Hind wing white, the termen suffused with 
brown except at tornus. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal area suffused with black. 
Hab. Queenstann, Brisbane (Turner), 3 6,12. Exp. 20-24 
millim. 
6488. Characoma scoparioides. 
Corticata scoparioides, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 53 (1864) ; 
Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon, ii. p. 78, pl. ii. f. 22. 
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with grey; fore 
tarsi with black rings towards extremity, the mid tibiz at base ; 
pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing rufous 
mixed with grey and irrorated with a few black scales; a black 
streak below costa from base to the slight black subbasal line, which 
is somewhat angled outwards at median neryure; antemedial line 
almost medial, sinuous, blackish ; a slight black discoidal point and 
some slight black streaks between lower angle of cell and the post- 
medial line, which is oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly angled 
inwards at discal fold, excurved at median nervules, then incurved 
and again excurved at vein 1, a blood-red spot beyond it in sub- 
median fold; a faint dentate blackish subterminal line defined by 
grey ; a terminal series of black points, Hind wing whitish tinged 
with brown especially on the veins and termen. : 
Hah. Crytox, Colombo (Mackwood), 1 9; Borneo, Sarawak 
(Wallace), type Tin Mus. Oxon. wp. 16 millim. 
