5a4 NOCTUID®. 
brown sparsely irrorated with black; the inner margin dark brown 
except towards base; a very oblique dark brown slightly curved 
line from costa before middle to inner margin well beyond middle ; 
a black discoidal point; an oblique dark brown line from costa 
beyond middle to tornus; cilia dark brown. Hind wing fuscous 
brown, the cilia rufous. Underside of fore wing brown with the 
costal and terminal areas rufous, the costa] area irrorated with dark 
brown; hind wing rufous irrorated with dark brown, the inner 
area grey-brown. 
Hab, Bornuo, Malang (Shelford), 1 3 type. Hep. 40 miliim, 
*6940. Carea pryeri. (Plate CLXXXVIIL. fig. 17.) 
Carea pryeri, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 150 (1911). 
¢. Head and thorax pale chocolate- brown; pectus and legs with 
some whitish; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface rufous, 
whitish towards base. Fore wing pale chocolate-brown with a 
silvery grey gloss especially on medial and terminal areas and 
slight blackish irroration ; oblique straight choeolate-brown ante- 
and postmedial lines, the former ending at middle of inner margin, 
the latter at tornus; traces of a dark subterminal line towards 
costa ; cilia dark chocolate-brown at base, rufous at tips and with 
some white at apex and above tornus. Hind wing brown with 
afaint reddish tinge. Underside of both wings pale red-brown 
with slight dark irroration ; fore wing with some fuscous suffusion 
in and beyond end of cell; hind wing with the inner arca grey- 
brown. 
Hab. N. Borneo (Pryer), type + ¢ in Coll. Druce. Exp. 42 
millim, 
6946. Carea pratti. (Plate CLXX XVIII. fig. 18.) 
Carea pratti, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 243 (1906). 
Head and thorax whitish more or less strcugly tinged with rufous, 
the vertex of head and tegule more olive-brown ; palpi rufous, dark 
brown in front; fore coxee rufous, the tibis and tarsi chocolate- 
brown, the mid and hind tarsi dark brown mixed with grey ; 
abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing pale pinkish red or whitish 
tinged with pinkish red and with numerous slight silvery striae, 
the costal edge red-brown ; a black discoidal point; a diffused very 
oblique red-brown line from apex to middle of inner margin and 
with traces of a slightly incurved postmedial line from it at vein 6 
{o inner margin; cilia red-brown. Hind wing fiery red, the basal 
area whitish ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with a 
few brown scales, the inner area whitish. 
Hab. Doren N. Guinea, Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley (Pratt), 1 3; 
Br. N, Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt),3 6,19. Lvp, 44-46 millim; 
