CHARACOMA. PON 
6489. Characoma nilotica. 
Sarrothripa nilotica, Rogenh. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1831, p. 26; 
Siaud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 561. 
Puraxia chameleon, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 121 (1890); Kirby, 
Cat. Lep. Het. p. 378. 
Cletthara littora, Beth.-Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 35, pl. i. f. 2; 
Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 561. 
Thalpochares laurea, Vruce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 497, pl. 95. ff. 26, 
27 (1898). 
Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; palpi with the 
drd joint blackish ; fore tarsi blackish ringed with white: « bdomen 
whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated 
with fuscous brown; subbasal line indistinct, somewhat sinuous, 
more or less distinctly double from costa to submedian fold; ante- 
medial line almost medial, slight, sinuous, blackish ; a slight black 
Fig. 76.—Characoma nilotica, 3. 3. 
discoidal point and slight streaks on vein 2 and in submedian fold 
before the postmedial 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; subterminal line 
blackish defined on outer side by grey, somewhat dentate, excurved 
below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of black points. 
Hind wing white, the veins and termen suffused with brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with black band on inner antemedial line. 
Ab, 2. Fore wing with rounded black patch on subbasal costal 
area. 
Ab. 3. Fore wing with medial black spot in submedian 
interspace, 
Ab. 4. Fore wing with the basal and inner areas suffused with 
brown. 
Hab. US.A., Texas, 1 9; Mexico (Schaus), 2 g,3 2, Jalapa 
(Trujillo), 1 $,6 2, Amula (H. H. Smith), 1 3,2 2 type laurec, 
Godman-Salvin Coll.; Honpuras (Zobertson), 1 2; Cosra Rica, Tuis ; 
Banamas, Nassau (Sir Gt. Carter), 4 3,72; Granp Cayman (Nicholl), 
19; Cusa,1 3, Baracoa (Schaus),1 3; Porte Rico, 19; Canariszs, 
Teneriffe( Walsingham), 1 3 ; Sterra Leonn(Ulements), 1 9; GAMBIA, 
Bathurst (Carter), 1 6,1 9; S. Nieerta, Lagos (Dudgeon), 1 3; 
N. NicErra, Zungeru (Magic), 1 $; Kaypt, Alexandria, type T 3 
littora in Coll. Bethune-Baker; Mapras, Horsleykonda (Campbelt), 
1 @ ; Czytoy, Trincomali (Yerdury),1 9. Hep. 14-18 millim. 
Type T chameleon in Mus. Berlin. 
Larva on Tamarix articulata. 
