. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHAIIACOMA. 237 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 termi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHAIIACOMA. 237 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. millim. 6499. Characoma polia. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 17.) Hypoihripapolia, 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 b
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