232 KOCTUIDJS. 



Sect. II. Abtlomen with doi'sal crest at base only. 



A. i^Charucoma.) Palpi of male with the 3rd joint tufted with lung aair. 



6 190. Characoma albulalis. 



Characoma (dbulalis,Wik. xxvii. 107 (1863). 



J . Head and thorax grej'-white mixed with pale brown ; fore 

 femora and tibia) and mid tibias at base blackish ; fore tarsi banded 

 ■vvith blackish ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Pore wing white mixed with pale brown, Ihe basal area to sub- 

 median fold and the costal area from antemedial to subterminal line 

 suffused with pale olive-brown; subba.sal line black, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold, with black streaks before it below costa 

 and in submedian fold ; antemedial line almost medial, black defined 



Fig. 77. — Characoma alhulalis, J. 1- 



on inner side by white, oblique, sinuous, a diffused black patch 

 between it and postmedialline in submedian interspace; postmedial 

 line black, oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 6, then erect, 

 Avaved, some slight oblique black streaks beyond it below the costa ; 

 subterminal line white defined on inner side by dentate black marks, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of small 

 triangular black spots. Hind wing white suffused with brown 

 especially on terminal area ; cilia paler ; the underside whitish, the 

 costal and terminal areas suffused Avith brown. 



Hah. BoRKEo, Sarawak {Wallace), 1 S type. Exjp. 30 millim. 



B. Palpi of male with the 3rd joint naked. 



a. Fore wing of male with fovea below base of cell. 



*6491. Cliaracoma sexilinea. 



Hypothripa sexilinea, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 430 (1909). 



S . Head and thorax grey- white irrorated with a few black 

 scales ; palpi with black band at base of 3rd joint ; antenna) black 

 except at base ; fore tibiae and the tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 Avhitish ; abdomen grey, dorsally suffused with fuscous brown. 

 Fore wing grey-white ; a black point at base of costa ; an obliquely 

 curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 near base ; 

 antemedial line double,, black, obliqiie from costa to submedian fold, 

 then inwardly oblique, the outer line with small black spot at 

 cos!;a, a small V-shapcd black mark beyond it below the cell ; a black 



