. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 231 64:89. Characoma nilotica. Sarrothripa nilotica, Rogenli. Verb, Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 26; Si and. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 361. Pariixiri chamxhon, Mosclil. Abb. Seack. Ges. xvi. p. 121 (1890}; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 378. Clettham littora, , Trans. Ent. Soc, 1894, p. 35, pi. i. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 3(il. Thnlpochares Uiurea, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 497, pi. 95. ff. 26, 27 (1898). Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; palpi with the 3rd joint blackish ; for
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 231 64:89. Characoma nilotica. Sarrothripa nilotica, Rogenli. Verb, Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 26; Si and. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 361. Pariixiri chamxhon, Mosclil. Abb. Seack. Ges. xvi. p. 121 (1890}; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 378. Clettham littora, , Trans. Ent. Soc, 1894, p. 35, pi. i. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 3(il. Thnlpochares Uiurea, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 497, pi. 95. ff. 26, 27 (1898). Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; palpi with the 3rd joint blackish ; fore tarsi blackish ringed with white ; <• bdomen tinged with browu. Fore wing grey sutfiised andirrorated with fuscous brown ; subbasal line indistinct, somewhat sinuous, more or less distinctly double from costa to submedian fold; ante- medial line almost medial, slight, sinuous, blackish ; a sligiit black. Fig. 76.—Characoma nilotica, (^. |. discoidal point and slight streaks on vein 2 and iu submedian fold before the post medial line, which is oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, excurvcd at median nervules, then incurved and again excurved at vein 1; subterminal line blackish defined on outer side by grey, somewhat dentate, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and termen suffused with brown, Ab. 1. Fore wing with black band on inner antemedial line. Ab. 2. Fore wing with rounded black patch on subbiisal costal area. Ab. 3. Fore wing with medial black spot in submedian interspace. Ab. 4. Fore wing with the basal and inner areas suffused with brown. Jlab. , Texas, 1 5 ; Mexico (Schans), 2 J, 3 $ , Jalapa (TrvjiUo), 1 J , 6 ? , Araula (if. ]f. t^mith), 1 d , 2 $ type laurea, (Jodman-Salvin Coll.; Honduras [Hubertsg^i), 1 5 ; Costa IUca, Tuis ; Bahamas, Nassau {Sir G. Carter), 4 (5 , 7 5 ; Grand Cayman {JSicholl), 1 2 ; Cuba, 1 S , Baracoa (Schaus), 1 S ; Tortc Jli
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