542 NOCTUID.®. 
median nervure, then more erect; black points in end of cell and 
on disecocellulars : postmedial line double, blackish filled in with 
silvery purple, the outer line indistinct, slightly exeurved below 
costa, then more erect; cilia purple mixed with blackish. Hind 
wing fuscous brown, the cilia fiery red, pale towards tornus. Under- 
side of fore wing fiery red tinged with purple on costal area, the 
inner half brown except on terminal erea, the apex with slight 
whitish suffusion; hind wing fiery red, the inner half whitish 
except at termen. 
3. Fore wing more chocolate-brown and less red, the postmedial 
line oblique from middle of costa to tornus, 
Hab. Dutcu N. Gurnra, Snow Mts., Octakwa R. (Meek), 1 S, 
2 9: Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), type T Q in Coll. Bethune- 
Baker. Ewp. 44 millim. 
Genus CAREA. 
Type. 
Gare Wikssx: TAS URDG) veceecsenrececececeerce tials =aitelsllenicanesnees varipes. 
ID RGT TTA NW Vga ei e7het (Cl tSt5\0)) Ronrionte onbesccbecaaecmensonuobmocdcnorcenouc subtilis. 
Didiqua, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. 181 (1862) ......... seticornis. 
Chora, Wk. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vi. p. 188 (1862) ............ repandens. 
Ranaja, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 121 (1882) ............... wieaaspeetans JFasciata. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned. the 2nd joint reaching to about 
middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd minute, porrect, frons smooth ; 
eyes large, round; antennz of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only 
and without crests; mid and hind tibie fringed with long hair; the hind tibix 
of male typically very short with minute terminal spnr on outer side only, the 
Ist. joint of tarsus very long, strongly dilated and fringed with long hair on 
inner side; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing 
with the apex somewhat produced, the termen not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 
from near angle of cell; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 
6 from the areole or from angle of cell; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 
3, 4 from angle of cell, rarely stalked; 5 fully developed from or from just 
above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only. 
Secr, I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex, excurved at middle 
and excised below vein 4. 
A. (Dabarita.) Hind tibiz of male with minute terminal spur on inner side 
only. 
6926. Carea subtilis. 
Dabarita subtilis, Wk. x. 479 (1858); Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 76, 
pl. @. £. 5 (1880); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 117, pl. 123. ff. 3, 3a; Hmpsn. 
Moths Ind. ii. p. 422. 
Head and thorax flesh-pink; palpi brownish, the Ist joint 
white in front; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibie and 
tarsi rufous in front, the fore tarsi blackish towards extremity ; 
abdomen white dorsally suffused with flesh-pink, the cests brownish. 
Vore wing flesh-pink suffused with violaceous white and sparsely 
irrorated with black; antemedial line brown, very indistinctly 
double, oblique, from costa to middie of inner margin; a black 
discoidal point; postmedial line double, brown, ineurved, from costa 
towards apex to tornus, a faint red-brown shade before it narrow- 
ing to a point at submedian fold; cilia dark brown at tips. Hind 
