938 NOCTUID®. 
then hardly traceable ; medial line black, erect to subcostal nervure, 
then oblique; a slight blackish discoidal spot; postmedial line 
black defined on outer side by white, oblique and slightly sinuous to 
vein 6 where it is acutely angled, angled inwards at discal fold, 
excurved and slightly waved to vein 3, then incurved and again 
excurved at vein 1,some fuscons suffusion beyond it on costa and in 
submedian interspace; subterminal line blackish, excurved below 
vein 7 and incurved at discal fold, then minutely dentate ; a 
terminal series of black points; cilia whitish slightly intersected 
with brownish. Hind wing white tinged with brown especially on 
the veins and terminal area from apex to vein 2; a fine whitish 
line at base of cilia; the underside white, the costal area and 
terminal area to vein 2 suffused with brown. 
Hab. Assim, Khasis, 1 ¢ type. Hvp. 24 millim. 
6500. Characoma miophora, n. sp. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 18.) 
g. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark olive-green ; 
abdomen brown, the basal crest grey-green ; pectus, legs, and ventral 
surface of abdomen ochreous white, the fore legs irrorated with 
brown in front and the tarsi ringed with white. Pore wing whitish 
tinged with olive-green and thickly irrorated with fuscous ; ante- 
medial line blackish, sinuous; medial line blackish, oblique to 
median nervure and angled inwards at vein 1; postmedial line 
blackish slightly defined on outer side by whitish, oblique to vein 
5, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 4; subter- 
minal line blackish defined on outer side by whitish, excurved 
below vein 7 and at middle; a fine black terminal line ; cilia grey 
intersected with blackish. Hind wing white, the veins and 
terminal area suffused with fuscous brown; cilia brownish at base, 
white at tips; the underside white, the terminal area suffused 
with fuscous from apex to vein 2. 
Ab. 1, Fore wing with white patch at tornus ; hind wing wholly 
suffused with fuscous brown.—S. Leone. 
Hah. Sterns Leone (Clements), 1 g; Transvaat, White R. 
(Cooke), 1 g type. wp, 20-22 millim. 
6501. Characoma cana. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 19.) 
Hypothripa cana, Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 383 (1894). 
2. Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown ; abdomen 
pale brown, white at base; palpi with some black on 2nd joint 
behind and base of 3rd joint; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 
abdomen white, the fore legs with some fuscous in front. Fore 
wing grey-white irrorated with pale brown; traces of sinuous dark 
antemedial and medial lines ; postmedial line indistinct and obliquely 
curved from costa to vein 7, then represented by slight black points ; 
a subterminal series of faint minute dark streaks on the veins; 
a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white 
