CHAIIACOMA. 



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from costa to submodiaT] fold with two lines on it formed of raised 

 black scales ; an indistinct slightly waved medial line; traces of a 

 dark discoidal point; postmedial line bent outwards with a 

 downward curve from costa to vein 6, rainutelj' dentate to vein 4, 



Fig. 80. — Characoma ruficirra, S . |. 



then strongly incurved and excnrved to inner margin, a rufous 

 shade beyond it from costa to vein 6 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 dark, minutely waved, exourved at vein T and middle; a rufous 

 shade at apex ; a terminal scries of black points ; cilia brownish. 

 Hind wing brownish grey, the veins and terminal area slightly 

 darker. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Pry&r), 2 J tvpe ; Sikhtm {McUer), 

 1 $ ; Assam, {Bachjlen), 2 $ , Khasis, 2 $ ". Exp. 22-24 millim. ' 



6498. Characoma glaphyra. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 16.) 

 Acovtia glaphyra, Holl. Pysclie, \\i. p. 128 (1894). 



5 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; palpi with the 2nd 

 joint blackish at sides except at tips ; patagia at base and prothorax 

 blackish ; abdomen greyish dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing grej^-white thickly irrorated with brown ; some black at base ; 

 antemedial line diffused, black, oblique from costa to vein 1 , 

 connected by a diffused black patch in submedian interspace with 

 the postmedial line, which is minutely waved, exourved from below 

 costa to vein 4, then incurved; an oblique black patch from apex 

 to vein 4 just beyond the postmedial line, diffused on outer side ; 

 traces of a minutely waved subterminal liiie ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia dark towards apex. Hind Aving pale suffused 

 with brown ; the underside wliiter except on costal area. 



Hah. SiEKRA Leone (C?^;»(?nte), 1 5 , Gaboon, Kangwe. E.vp.lS 

 millim. 



6499. Characoma polia. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 1 7.) 



Hypoihripa polia, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. lYat. Hist. See. xi. p. 452 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown and 

 some black; palpi with black spots on 1st and 2nd joints, the tips 

 black; antennoe black; fore tibice and tarsi banded with black; 

 abdomen grey suffused with fuscous, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing grey-white irrorated with fuscous ; antemedial line 

 double, oblique, sinuous, black and prominent to submedian fold, 



