290 CHARACOMA. By W. Warren. 



remyana. S. revayana Scop. (= duplana F., fasciaturn Retz, rivagana F., undulana Hbn., stoninus Curt., frigidana 



Walk., scriptana Walk., favillana Walk., bilineatella Walk., latifasciella Walk., metaspilella Walk., colunibiana 

 H.Edic. liiitnerana Speyer, cinereana Neum., siculana Fuchs, asiatica Krul., diplographa Hmps.) (53 c). Pore- 

 wing ashy grey, dusted with darker, especially in costal half of median area; lines darker, double, but indistinct; 

 the inner out curved above and below middle, and angled outwards below vein 1; the outer irregularly waved 

 and strongly indented on submedian fold ; some faint dark spots indicate the submarginal line ; hindwing pale 

 fuseulana. greyish fuscous; — hi the ab. fusculana Schmid (53 c) the ground colour is dull dark brownish fuscous, with 

 the black lines visible and a ferruginous spot representing the reniform stigma; from the middle of base an 

 oblique black streak runs to lower end of the inner line ; the submarginal spots are visible, and a row'of small 

 dilutana. black marginal lunules; ■ — ■ ab. dilutana Hbn. (53 c) has the ground colour dull grey or whitish grey, the median 

 area brownish grey, more purely brown towards costa; the reniform diffuse, rufous; the pale basal area with 

 grey spots between the veins between subbasal and inner lines ; the submarginal spots darker grey and the pale 

 deijcncrana. submarginal line beyond them more clearly marked; ■ — ab. degenerana Hbn. (53 c) is bright greenish white; the 

 median area purplish grey and brown, blacker towards costa, the reniform purple red; the lines filled up with 

 white and the cloudy spots hi basal and marginal areas black; a black spot at apex ; fringe whitish ; intermediate 

 obscura. forms occur between this and dilutana ; the ab. obscura ab. nov. (53c) has the whole forewing olive brown, the markings 

 . glaucana. as iii degenerana; — ab. glaucana Law/pa (53 c) has the forewhig obscurely glaucescent, with a triangular dark 

 ilicana. fuscous blotch; — ab. ilicana F. (= punctana Hbn.) (53 d) is pale fawn grey, sprinkled with whitish scales; the 

 lines much finer; the cell spot, a spot on each side of the median vehi before inner line, and the two lowest 

 ramosana. spots of the submarghial line black; — in ab. ramosana Hbn. (= ramulanus Curt.) (53 d) the ground colour is 

 brownish grey, with fuscous shading, and a deep black streak from below base of cell to below reniform stigma, 

 shortly branched towards inner margin beyond subbasal and inner lines; the submarghial spots darker; ■ — ■ ab. 

 russiana. russiana Dup. has the forewing grey green, with a large dark median blotch. Larva green with the segmental 

 incisions yellowish, the tubercles with long white hairs; resting curled up between the leaves of the tree on 

 which it feeds, pupating in a yellow boat-shaped cocoon. Generally distributed throughout Europe, and found 

 in the Altai Mts., Asia Minor, Dauria, Amurland, and Japan; also throughout India and North America. 



coreana. S. coreana Leech (53 d). Forewhig silvery grey, freckled with darker grey; inner line wavy, oblique, 



double; outer line wavy and double, excurved beyond cell; a fuscous brown blotch extends along costa to a 

 whitish lunule before the irregular dusky submarghial line; a dark spot at end of cell with a whitish lmiule on 

 its outer edge; hindwing fuscous grey. A single $ from G-ensan, Corea. 



musculana. S. musculana Ersch. (53c). Forewing ochreous grey irrorated with fuscous; two slight oblique dark 



subbasal lines to submedian fold ; inner line indistinctly double, oblique to median vein, then incurved, angled 

 outwards on vein 1; outer line also double, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards on cell fold, oblique 

 below vein 4, and inbent in submedian interspace, and outwards above inner margin; an oblique diffuse dark 

 streak from apex to vein 7; a waved subtermhial line angled outwards at vein 4; a terminal series of small 

 albivaria. black dots; hindwing white suffused with pale brown; — in the ab. albivaria ab. nov. (=ab. 1 Hmps.) the lines 

 are more distinct, being filled in with white; the antemedian area is whiter; the median area is suffused with 

 brown and has a triangular fuscous shade from costa. Alexander Mts., Sarawschan, W. Turkestan. 



2. Genus : Characoina Walk. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, closely scaled, the third segment long; 

 antennae of o ciliated ; forewing short and broad, the costa strongly arched at base, the apex rounded, the termen 

 curved and even; veins 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form an areole; veins 3 and 4 coincident and stalked 

 with 5; the costal of hindwing anastomosing with subcostal for half of cell. Type C. albulalis Walk. (53 d). 

 A genus mainly of tropical species. 



ruficirra.i C. ruiitirra Hmps. (53 d). Forewhig grey ; a reddish brown inner shade from costa to submedian fold, with 



two lines on it formed of slightly raised black scales; an indistinct slightly waved median line; a faint dark 

 cellspot pouter line bent outwards with'a downward curve from costa to vein 6, denticulate to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved, and again excurved to inner margin; "a rufous shade on costa beyond it; subtermhial 

 line dark, indistinct, waved; a rufous shade at apex; a termmal series of black dots; fringe brownish; hindwing 

 brownish grey, the veins and terminal area darker. Described from Yokohama, Japan, also found in N. India. 



nitoliva. C. nilotica Rghfr. (= chamaeleon Moeschl., littora Beth.-Baker, laurea Bruce) (53 d). Forewhig dark 



grey, with darker grey and blackish markings; subbasal line slight; inner line double, curved to submedian 

 fold; median line fine, blackish, wavy; out crime marked by dark teeth on veins, excurved between veins 6 and 3; 

 a slight blackish discoidal lunule and black convergent streaks on each side of vein 2 from base to outer line ; 

 subtermhial line grey between two darker grey shades, the inner sometimes marked with black; — hi the ab. 

 nigrinotata. nigrinotata ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) (53 d) the inner line is marked by a thick erect black bar; — ■ in ab. nigri- 

 ^cula macu ' a a b- )WV - ( = ab. 2 Hmps.) (53 d) the costal area at base bears a round black blotch; in another form, 



