23S Nocxuin.i5. 



then hardly traceable ; mcrlial line black, erect to subcostal nervure, 

 then obliqne ; a slight blackish discoidal spot ; postmedial line 

 black defined on outer side by white, oblique and slightly sinuous to 

 vein 6 where it is acutely angled, angled inwards at discal fold, 

 excurved and slightly waved to vein 3, then incurved and again 

 excurved at vein 1, some fuscous suffusion beyond it on costa and in 

 submedian interspace ; subterminal line blackish, excurved below 

 vein 7 and incurved at discal fold, then minutely dentate ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish slightly intersected 

 with brownish. Hind wing white tinged with brown especially on 

 the veins and terminal area from apex to vein 2 ; a fine whitish 

 line at base of cilia; the underside white, the costal area and 

 terminal ai'ea to vein 2 suffused with brown. 



Hah. AssiM, Khasis, 1 c5' type. Exp. 24 millira. 



6500. Characoma miophora, u. sp. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 18.) 



(^ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark olive-green: 

 abdomen brown, the basal crest grey-green ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen ochreous white, the fore legs irrorated with 

 brown in front and the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing whitish 

 tinged with olive-green and thickly irrorated with fi^scous ; ante- 

 medial line blackish, sinuous ; medial line blackish, oblique to 

 median nervure and angled inwards at vein 1 ; postmedial line 

 blackish slightly defined on outer side by whitish, oblique to vein 

 5, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 4; subter- 

 minal line blackish defined on outer side by whitish, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia grey 

 intersected with blackish. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia brownish at base, 

 white at tips ; the underside white, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with white patch at tornus ; hind wing Avholly 

 suffused with fuscous brown. — S. Leone. 



Hah. Sierra. Leone (Olements), 1 S ; Transvaal, White E.. 

 (CooJce), 1 c^ type. Exp. 20-22 millim. 



6501. Characoma cana. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 19.) 



Hypothripa cana, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 383 (1894). 



2 . Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown ; abdomen 

 pale brown, white at base ; palpi with some black on 2nd joint 

 behind and base of 3rd joint ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white, the fore legs with some fuscous in front. Fore 

 wing grey-white irrorated with pale brown ; traces of sinuous dark 

 antemedial and medial lines ; postmedial line indistinct and obliquely 

 curved from costa to vein 7, then represented by slight black points ; 

 a subterminal series of faint minute dark streaks on the veins; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white 



