232 NOCTUID 2. 
Secr. If. Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 
A. (Characoma.) Palpi of male with the 3rd joint tufted with lung aair. 
6.190, Characoma albulalis. 
Characoma albulalis, W1k. xxvii. 107 (1863). 
¢. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown; fore 
femora and tibiew and mid tibie at base blackish ; fore tarsi banded 
with blackish ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish. 
Fore wing white mixed with pale brown, the basal area to sub- 
median fold and the costal area from antemedial to subterminal line 
suffused with pale olive-brown; subbasal line black, waved, from 
costa to submedian fold, with black streaks before it below costa 
and in submedian fold ; antemedial line almost medial, black detined 
Fig. 77.—Characoma albulalis, 8. +. 
on inner side by white, oblique, sinuous, a diffused black patch 
between it and postmedial line in submedian interspace; postmedial 
line black, oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 6, then erect, 
waved, some slight oblique black streaks beyond it below the costa ; 
subterminal line white detined on inner side by dentate black marks, 
excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of small 
triangular black spots, Hind wing white suffused with brown 
especially on terminal area; cilia paler; the underside whitish, the 
costal and terminal areas suffused with brown. 
Hab, Borxno, Sarawak (Wallace), 13 type. Exp. 30 millim. 
B. Palpi of male with the 8rd joint naked. 
a. Fore wing of male with fovea below base of cell, 
*6491. Characoma sexilinea. 
Hypothripa sexilinea, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 480 (1909), 
3d. Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with a few black 
scales; palpi with black band at base of 3rd joint; antenne black 
except at base; fore tibie and the tarsi fuscous ringed with 
whitish ; abdomen grey, dorsally suffused with fuscous brown. 
Fore wing grey-white; a black point at base of costa; an obliquely 
curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 near base; 
antemedial line double, black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, 
then inwardly oblique, the outer line with small black spot at 
costa, asmall WV-shaped black mark beyond it below the cell; a black 
