230 NOCTuiDiii;. 



slight, incurved below costa where there is a dark broAvii apical 

 patch beyond it), then minutely dentate ; a terminal series of dark 

 brown points. Hind wing white, the terminal area and cilia tinged 

 with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area 

 suffused with fuscous except towards base. 



Hah. Burma, llangoon, 1 c5' , 1 $ type. Exp. J 24, $ 26 millim. 



6487. Characoma vallata. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 11.) 



Bypothrvpa vallata, Meyr. Trans. Eiit. See. 1902, p. 47. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and red-brown ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with broAvn, the crests darker ; paljn with 

 blackish spots at sides of 1st and 2nd joints ; tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore 

 Aving grey more or less suffused with red-brown and fuscous brown 

 and with some dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by black 

 striae from costa and cell; antemedial line rather indistinct, blackish, 

 double, oblique, sinuous ; medial line slight, oblique, sinuous ; an 

 oblique red-brown discoidal slriga ; postmedial line blackish defined 

 on outer side by white, oblique and sinuous to vein 6, slightly in- 

 curved at discal fold, then excurved at median nervules and vein 1, 

 a more or less prominent patch of fuscous suffusion beyond it on 

 costa ; snbterminal line indistinct, diffused, w^hitish defined on inner 

 side by fuscous, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, the ternien suffused with 

 brown except at tornus. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal area suffused with black. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 3 (5 , 1 5 . Exp. 20-24 

 millim. 



6488. Characoma scoparioides. 



Corticata scoparioides, Wlk. Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 53 (1864); 

 Swiiih. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxou, ii. p. 78, pi. ii. f. 22. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with grey ; fore 

 tarsi with black rings towards extremity, the mid tibise at base; 

 pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing rufous 

 mixed with grey and irrorated with a few black scales ; a black 

 streak below costa from base to the slight black subbasal line, Avhich 

 is somewhat angled outwards at median nervure ; antemedial line 

 almost medial, sinuous, blackish ; a slight black discoidal point and 

 some slight black streaks between lower angle of cell and the post- 

 medial line, which is oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly angled 

 inwards at discal fold, excurved at median nervules, then incurved 

 and again excurved at vein 1, a blood-red spot beyond it in sub- 

 median fold ; a faint dentate blackish snbterminal line defined by 

 grey ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown especially on the veins and termen. 



Jfah. CjsYLon, Colombo {Mackwood), 1 $ ; Boeneo, Sarawak 

 {WaJlace), type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 16 millim. 



