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palpi with black spot at base of 2nd joint ; antenna black ; tegule 
with some black scales near tips; patagia with two black points 
near tips; fore and mid tibiw and the tarsi with some brown ; 
abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown, the basal crest white 
{tipped with black. Fore wing silvery white slightly suffused and 
irrorated in parts with brown; short black streaks near base in 
aud below cell; subbasal line black, angled outwards below costa, 
excurved at median nervure and ending at vein 1, an oblique black 
streak beyond it above inner margin; antemedial line black, 
excuryed at subcostal and median nervures and angled inwards in 
submedian fold, oblique black streaks from its curves at subcostal 
and median nervures to postmedial line and a short streak on 
vein 1; postmedial line black, oblique towards costa and slightly 
angled outwards below costa, angled inwards and forming a short 
streak at discal fold, then excurved, angled inwards at vein 2 and 
submedian fold and again excurved above inner margin, a black 
patch with white point on it beyond it on costa; subterminal line 
black, slightly angled inwards below costa and at discal and 
submedian folds and excurved between those points; a terminal 
series of small wedge-shaped black marks with slight blackish 
streaks before them towards apex; cilia chequered white and 
blackish. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous especially on 
terminal half from apex to vein 2. 
Hab. Br. N. Gotnea, Aroa R. (Meex), type tT 9 in Coll. 
Rothschild, “ap. 26 millim. 
61496. Characoma phzoleuca, n. sp. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 15.) 
¢. Head and thorax white mixed with some brown; abdomen 
grey-white, the basal crest with some brown mixed, the ventral 
surface white. Fore wing white slightly irrorated with fuscous 
brown and ochreous, especially on inner area; a sinuous blackish 
subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 
blackish defined on inner side by white, oblique, waved ; a minute 
black streak in end of cell; pustmedial line black defined on outer 
side by white, oblique and waved from costa to vein 6, angled 
inwards at discal fold, then excurved at median nervules and vein 
1, a patch of fuscous suffusion beyond it on costa; subterminal 
line blackish, interrupted, defined on inner side by minute dentate 
black marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; some brownish 
suffusion before termen except towards apex; a terminal series of 
black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the terminal 
half suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia white tinged with brown. 
Hab, Cuyton, Maskeliya (Green), 1 ¢ type. Hap. 28 millim.- 
6497. Characoma ruficirra. 
Hypothripa ruficirra, Hmpsn. A. M.N. H. (7) xvi. p. 540 (1905). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the two former with brown 
slightly mixed, Fore wing grey ; a reddish brown antemedial shade 
