. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 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 â 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 subter
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 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 â 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; 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.â 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, , 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 obl
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