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discoidal striga; an inwardly oblique black striga from middle of 
costa with a wedge-shaped fuscous patch beyond it ; postmedial 
line double, black, arising from lower edge of the fuscous patch, 
excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a curved black line from it at 
submedian fold to inner margin near tornus; subterminal line 
Fig. 78.—Characoma sexilinea, 3. 4. 
black, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, incurved at discal 
fold and ending below vein 3; an oblique black shade from cilia 
below apex, its inner extremity bent downwards; a terminal 
series of small black lunules; cilia whitish with fine black lines 
near base and tips. Hind wing grey-white suffused with fuscous ; 
the underside fuscous, the cell and inner area whitish. 
Hab. Conco Fren Stare, Makala Distr. (Powell-Cotton), type T 
3 in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Hep. 22 millim. 
h. Hind wing of male with the termen truncate towards tornus which is 
lobed and with tufts of long hair, the inner margin short; vein 4 
from 3 just before termen in male ouly. 
6492. Characoma metalophota. 
Blenina metalophota, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 526 (1896). 
Head and thorax white mixed with rufous and some black scales, 
the tegule with slight dark line near tips; antenne fuscous except 
towards base; fore tibiae with some black points, the tarsi black 
ringed with white, the mid tarsi black at tips; abdomen fuscous 
brown, paler at base, the ventral surface white, Fore wing white 
tinged in parts with rufous and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal 
line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold, a black streak 
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Fig. 79.—Characoma metalophota, G. }. 
before it in cell; antemedial line black, oblique, waved, with 
oblique black streaks above and below vein 2 from it to postmedial 
line; reniform indicated by some slight black marks; postmedial 
line black, oblique and slightly sinuous from costa to vein 6 where 
