234 NOCTUID. 
it is angled, anzled inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, 
excurved at yein 1 and more or less approximated to the antemedial 
line at inner margin; subterminal line faint, white, defined on 
inner side by minute dentate black marks, excurved below vein 7 
and at middle; a faint oblique blackish shade from apex and a 
terminal series of minute triangular black spots; cilia with series 
of fuscous spots. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, costa, 
and termen tinged with brown; male with the extremities of 
veins 6 and 5 with some yellow hair, the cilia yellowish from 
vein 5 to tornus, where the tufts of hair on underside are yellow and 
blackish. 
Hab. Assam, Khdsis, 1 ¢, 1 2 type; Ceyxton, Pattipolla 
(Alston), 1 9, Gampola (Mackwood), 1 2 ; Srrartcs or Matacca 
(.Veude- Waldo), 1 2 ; Sinearors ( Wood-Jones, Ridiey), 2 $,3 Q. 
Exp. 30-38 millim. 
e. Fore and hind wings of male normal. 
a‘. Fore wing with postmecial dark patch on costal area. 
a>. Fore wing with antemedial dark patch on costal area, distincta. 
b*, Fore wing without antemedial dark patch on costal 
area. 
a*, Fore wing tinged with pale olive-green ............... glaucopasta, 
3. Fore wing not tinged with olive-green. 
a‘. Fore wing with the lines yery prominently black. mu/¢ilinea. 
64, Fore wing with the lines much slighter. 
ae, Bore: wing silvery @ teva os. sce-nceesee scan eoetesenee pheoleuca. 
b®, Fore wing tinged with purplish red............... ruficirra. 
}’, Fore wing without postmedial dark patch on costal area. 
a, Fore wing with medial biack patch below the cell and 
oblique patch from termen below apex ..............2+65 glaphyra. 
i°, Fore wing without black patches. 
a, Fore wing with more or less distinct medial line. 
a‘, Fore wing with the medial line erect to submedian 
fold thenvobliquele-nscspssceace decodes eect ee eee polia, 
}4, Fore wing with the medial line curved and slightly 
sinuous. 
a, Fore wing tinged with olive-green ............... miopnora. 
}°, Fore wing not tinged with olive-green. 
a°, Fore wing with terminal series of black points cana. 
6°, Fore wing without terminal series of black 
[NOB claner dermaccscasacounsondobanoaaqsasccUancocstooC deleta. 
ce‘, Fore wing with the medial line absent............... Jerrigrisea. 
6493. Characoma distincta. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 12. 
Hypothripa distincta, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 224 (1996). 
Sarrothripa costiplagata, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 444 (1910). 
9. Head and thorax white mixed with rufous, the patagia with 
some black; palpi with black spots on sides of 1st joint, some black 
irroration on 2nd joint except at extremity and on 38rd joint; 
antenne black except at base; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 
abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing white with 
patches of rufous especially on ante- and postmedial areas, the 
medial area mostly black below the cell, the terminal area grey ; 
