CHAKACOMA.. 231 



64S9, Characoma nilotica. 



Sarrothripa nilotica, Eogenh. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 25; 



Si and. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 361. 

 Paraxia ckamcBleon, Moschl. Abh. Seack. Ges. xvi. p. 121 (1890) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Het. p. 378. 

 Cletthara litiora, Ueth.-Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 35, pi. i. f. 2 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 361. 

 Thalpochares laurea, jJruce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 497, pi. 95. ff. 26, 



27 (1898;. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi with the 

 3rd joint blackish ; fore tarsi blackish ringed with white ; f bdomen 

 whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing grey suffused andirrorated 

 with fuscous brown ; subbasal line indistinct, somewhat sinuous, 

 more or less distinctlj^ double from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line almost medial, slight, sinuous, blackish ; a slight black 



Fig. 7G. — Characoma iiilolica , (^ . I. 



discoidal point and slight streaks on vein 2 and in submedian fold 

 before 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 ; subterminal line 

 blackish defined on outer side by grey, somewhat dentate, excurved 

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

 Hind wing white, the veins and termen suffused with brown, 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with black band on inner antemedial line. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with rounded black patch on subbasal costal 

 area. 



Ab, 3. Fore wing with medial black spot in submedian 

 interspace. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with the basal and inner areas suffused with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 $; Mexico {Scliaus\ 2 c? , 3 $ , Jalapa 

 (Trujillo), 1 cJ 5 6 5 , Amula (H. If. Smith), 1 c? , 2 $ type laurea, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. ; JIonvvras (Robertson),! 2 ; Costa Rica, Tuis ; 

 Bahamas, Nassau {Sir G. Carter), 4 c5 , 7 $ ; Grand Cayman (Nicholl), 

 1 § ; Cuba, 1 (^ , Baracoa (Svhaus), 1 cJ ; JPoetc Jlico, 1 5 ; Canaeies, 

 TeneYiSe{WaIsin[/ham),l(S ; Hie'R'ra.'L'eon'e (Clements),! 5 ; Gambia, 

 Bathurst (Carter), 1 c? , 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, Lagos (Dudgeon), 1 ^ ; 

 N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Mac/ie), 1 c? ; Egypt, Alexandria, type f c? 

 littora in Coll. Bethune-Baker ; Madras, Horsleykonda (Campbell), 

 1 $ ; Ceylon, Trincomali (Yerbunj), 1 $. Exj). 14-18 millim. 

 Type t chamaleon in Mus. Berlin. 



Larva on Tamarix articulutu. 



