new Species of Noctuidse. 595 



inner area fuscous brown. Underside pale fiery red; fore 

 wing with the costal area greyish ; hind wing with the inner 

 area whitish, traces of a dark subterminal line except 

 towards tornus. 



Hab. Malacca, Johore {Ridley), 1 ? type. Exp. 40 mm. 



Carea holophcea, sp. n. 



Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, 

 the termen excurved at middle. 



?. Head and tegulse black-brown; palpi rufous, greyish 

 in front ; fi'ons at base and basal joint of antennae in front 

 whitish ; thorax rufous more or less tinged with grey ; 

 pectus and legs greyish, the fore legs dark in front ; abdomen 

 fuscous, ventrally rufous. Fore wing rufous more or less 

 suffused with grey ; an indistinct dark subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; a pale green subbasal patch on 

 inner margin ; antemedial line fine, black, obliquely excurved 

 from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; a large triangular 

 patch of blackish suffusion on costa before the double oblique 

 black postmedial line, and extending to below lower angle of 

 cell ; a slight fuscous tinge ou termen below apex. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with a slight rufous tinge ; termen and 

 cilia rufous. Underside fiery red, the costal area tinged with 

 grey towards apex; hind wing with the inner half whitish. 



Hab. Malacca, Johore {Ridley), 1 ? ; Perak Hills 

 {Ridley), 1 ? type. Exp. 3i mm. 



Carea biviata, sp. n. 



(J . Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some yellow ; 

 fore tibiai and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; pectus and mid and 

 hind legs whitish ; abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the 

 anal tuft blackish. Fore wing with the apex slightly 

 produced, the termen nearly evenly curved, fiery red 

 sparsely iiTorated with black; the base of inner area 

 yellowish, the apical area tinged with grey ; an oblique 

 straight dark line from costa before middle to middle of 

 inner margin ; an oblique line from costa beyond middle to 

 tornus, slightly excurved below costa ; the inner margin 

 (lark except towards base. Hind wing pale fiery red; the 

 underside whitish, with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown. 



? . Fore wing with the ground-colour nearly uniform 

 fiery red ; the Inies slightly more diffused, the postmedial 

 line hardly excurved below costa ; a dark discoidal point. 



