540 NOCTUID.E. 
base and slightly tinged with red at extremity, the anal tuft and 
ventral surface crimson-red tinged with brown at extremity, Fore 
wing crimson-red with slight black irroration, the costal edge 
redder, the inner area somewhat deeper red, the costal area with 
slight silvery suffusion to beyond middle; a faint curved rufous 
antemedial line slightly defined by silvery suffusion on inner side, a 
slight dark point in middle of cell; a rufous line slightly defined 
by silver on outer side from middle of costa to tornus; a rather 
diffused maculate blackish subterminal line ending on termen above 
tornus ; cilia deep red-brown. Hind wing bright orange-red, the 
inner area fuscous. Underside of both wings crimson-red with 
some black irroration on apical areas; hind wing with the inner. 
area whitish with the tuft of hair deep red. 
2. Darker; fore wing with the postmedial line not oblique and 
slightly waved. 
Hab, Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type fT ¢ in Coll. 
Bethune-Baker. xp. 44 millim, 
*6925. Careades subrubra. 
Careades subrubra, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 245 (1906). 
3. Head, tegule, and patagia reddish chocolate-brown, the vertex 
of thorax crimson-red ; palpi crimson-red behind, whitish at base 
in front; pectus and legs whitish suffused with crimson-red, the 
tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuseous brown mixed with 
greyish and slightly tinged with red towards extremity, the ventral 
surface suffused with crimson-red and with brown at extremity, 
Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown deepest on basal area and 
Fig. 207.— Careades subrubra, 3. }. 
on termen from below apex to vein 2 and slightly irrorated with 
black, the costal edge white towards base, the base of inner margin 
white ; an oblique ‘slightly curved brown antemedial line; black 
points in end of cell and on discocellulars ; a brown line defined on 
inner side by diffused red-brown from middle of costa to tornus; a 
diffused whitish subterminal band with slightly waved inner edge 
with some fuscous on it towards costa, ending on termen above 
tornus; cilia chocolate-brown. Hind wing deep fiery red, the 
inner area fuscous fringed with ochreous hair at base and white 
hair towards tornus. Under side of fore wing orange-red, the apical 
area brownish with white suffusion on costa. Hind wing orange- 
