498 NOCTUID MOTHS 



123. Carea obliqdifascia sp. n. 



^, 32-36 mm. 



Head and thorax i)redominantly dark Indian red (Eidgway, 

 pi. xxvii) ; palpus, pectus, abdomen beneath and legs maize 

 yellow (I.e. pi. iv), shaded with deeper buff and irrorated 

 here and there (especially on fore tibia) with Indian red ; 

 abdomen above brownish-fuscous, the anal tuft buff. Fore 

 wing ochraceous-salmon (pi. xv) largely suff'used with dark 

 Indian red, but the salmon ground-colour persisting at base 

 of hind margin, on the moderately large (irregularly rounded) 

 reniform and in a broad terminal area from costa close to 

 apex to a little beyond middle of hind margin ; this latter 

 area is, however, interrupted by the posterior half of post- 

 medial line, by t!ie diffused subterminal shade and by a 

 slight dark shade at termen, which is broadest on its 

 anterior half but arises from a point at apex ; lines very 

 diffused and indistinct, the antemedial almost obsolete (lost 

 in the dark shade on this part of wing) ; the postmedial only 

 distinct behind M, where it almost follows the line of termen; 

 tiie subterminal shade angled outward behind SC^ and 

 inward behind R\ otherwise more or less straight and erect 

 Hind wing with anterior three-fifths proximally cream- 

 coloured, distally shaded with salmon colour; the posterior 

 two-fifths tinged with lirownish-fuscous. Wings beneath 

 whitish shaded with light ochraceous-buff (I.e. pi. xv), the 

 anterioi- half of fore wing and termen of hind w^ng (except 

 towards tornus) shaded with salmon colour. 



Mt. Matang (Dr. E. Mjoberg) — 1 cf- There are also 

 before me, in the Joicey collection, 3 cT from Perak, 

 2000—5000 feet (W. Doheirty). 



2 cf and 1 9 (exactly agreeing with the cf ) from Kedah 

 peak, 3200 feet, December, 1915, presented to the Joicey 

 collection by the Raffles Museum, appear somewhat darker 

 on both wings, with the salmon shades a more decided red, 

 but they seem to belong here. 



Unfortunately not one of the 7 specimens is in really 



first-rate condition. The type is rather smaller than the 



■jthers. Apparently nearest to C. carneiplagata Warr., Nov. 



Zool., xix, p. 41, 19r2, IVnang, but the figure of this 



species which is before me has the dark and pale areas of 



