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below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of blackish points. 

 Hind wing white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area white with diffused 

 brownish spot beyond middle. 



Uab. Bjb. E. Africa, Njoro {Cholmley), 1 c? type. E.vp. 20 

 miljim. 



Genus CHARACOMA. 



lype. 



Characoma, VVlk. xxvii. 108 (1863) albuUdis. 



Corticata, Wlk. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zooi. vii. p. b'-i (18(54) ... scoparioides. 



Paraa-io., Mosdil. Abli. Seuck. Ges. xvi. J). 12U (1890) niiotka. 



Riipolhripa, Hmpsu. Moths lud. ii. p. 383 (1894) curiosa. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, tlie 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes lai-ge, round ; 

 antenniB of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, tiie meta- 

 thorax witJi largo spreading crest ; tibiie moderately iringed with hair ; 

 abdomen typically with dorsal crests on basal segments only, i'ore wing short 

 and broad, the costa highly arched near base, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 trom near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 irom 10 anastomosing with 8 to lorin a long narrow 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 irom towards angle of cell; 

 3 and 5 stalked, 4 coincident with 3 ; 6, 7 from uj)per angle ; 8 anastomosino- 

 witli the cell to middle. 



Sect. I. {Corticata.) Abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. 



A. Fore wing with double oblique sinuous antemedial line. 



a. Fore wmg with large rounded brown apical patch ... curiosa. 



b. Fore wing without dark apical patch vatluta. 



B. Fore wing with ttie antemedial line single, erect, and 



almost medial. 

 a. Fore wing tinged with rufous and with small blood-red 



spot in submedian fold beyond postniedial line scoparioides. 



h. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with luscous brown . iiitoticu. 



6486. Characoma curiosa. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 10.) 



Selepa curiosa, Swiiih. Traus. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 235; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 383. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; teguloe with 

 black line near tips; abdomen with the crests blackish ; palpi with 

 some black at sides of 1st and 2nd joints ; tarsi black ringed with 

 white. Pore wing grey-white with a violaceous tiuge, slightly 

 suli'tised in parts with red-brown especially on inner area ; ante- 

 medial line doable, blackish, exciirvcd, strongly angled inwards in 

 submedian fold ; an indistinct oblique slightly sinuous medial line ; 

 a slight white discoidal luuule deliiied on outer side by some blackish 

 scales; postmedial line dark brown defined on outer side by white, 

 the line punctiform except on inner area, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some small 

 black-brown spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line dark brown, 



