CHARACOMA, 7 
from costa to submedian fold with two lines on it formed of raised 
black scales ; an indistinct slightly waved medial line; traces of a 
dark discoidal point; postmedial line bent outwards with a 
downward curve from costa to vein 6, minutely dentate to vein 4, 
Fig. 80.— Characoma ruficirra, S. 3. 
then strongly incurved and excurved to inner margin, a rufous 
shade beyond it from costa to vein 6; subterminal line indistinet, 
dark, minutely waved, excurved at vein 7 and middle; a rufous 
shade at apex; a terminal series of black points ; cilia brownish. 
Hind wing brownish grey, the veins and terminal area slightly 
darker. 
Hab. Javan, Yokohama (Pryer), 2 g type; Stkntm (Méller), 
19; Assam, (Badgley), 2 9, Khasis,2 9. Exp, 22-24 millim. 
som 
6498. Characoma glaphyra. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 16.) 
Acontia glaphyra, Holl. Pysche, vii. p. 128 (1894). 
@. Head and thorax brownish ochreous; palpi with the 2nd 
joint blackish at sides except at tips; patagia at base and prothorax 
blackish ; abdomen greyish dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore 
wing grey-white thickly irrorated with brown; some black at base; 
antemedial line diffused, black, oblique from costa to vein 1, 
connected by a diffused black patch in submedian interspace with 
the postmedial line, which is minutely waved, excurved from below 
costa to vein 4, then incurved; an oblique black patch from apex 
to vein 4 just beyond the postmedial line, diffused on outer side; 
traces of a minutely waved subterminal line; a terminal series of 
black points ; cilia dark towards apex. Hind wing pale suffused 
with brown ; the underside whiter except on costal area. 
Hab, Storra Leone (Clements), 1 9, Gaboon, Kangwé. Rvp. 18 
millim, 
6499. Characoma polia. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 17.) 
Hypothripa polia, Hmpsn, J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soe. xi. p. 452 (1897). 
od. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown and 
some black; palpi with black spots on Ist and 2nd joints, the tips 
black ; antennee black; fore tibia and tarsi banded with black; 
abdomen grey suffused with fuscous, the ventral surface whitish. 
Fore wing grey-white irrorated with fuscous; antemedial line 
double, oblique, sinuous, black and prominent to submedian fold, 
