220 Some apparently new Species and Forms of Noctuidae 



sometimes minutely waved; a diffused, rather elongate blackish discal 

 spot ; postmedial line from nearly two-thirds costa to hindmargin 

 towards tornus, excurved at SC 5 and E 3 and angled inward before E 2 ; 

 a subterminal blackish shade, angled outward behind SC 5 and on E 3 

 and M 1 and inward before E 2 ; fringe rufous, tipped with white from 

 about E' 2 to near tornus. 



Hind wing pale rufous ; whiter at base and on abdominal third of 

 wing. Abdominal margin clothed with short brown hairs, extending 

 to the rufous area in 3~ , in 2 leaving a slight white streak in fold. 



Underside almost uniform rufous in S , except for pale areas behind 

 fold on fore wing and at abdominal margin of hind wing ; some purplish 

 shading on apical area of both wings. ? with the proximal half of 

 costa of fore wing, an extended patch at and behind cell of fore wing 

 and the hind wing to near termen whitish. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, six $ $ , thir- 

 teen ? ? ; 4,600 feet, January, 1920, one ? . 



This and the two following species are very near to one another ; 

 but as there appear to be slight differences in the shape of wing and 

 length of the antennal fasciculation, as well as in the size, tone of 

 colour, and pattern, it has seemed necessary to accept them as three 

 different species. In caroli the fore wing seems a little shorter and is 

 decidedly less rounded at tornus than in the other two species. 



33. Carea felix sp. nov. 



3- , 43 — 46 mm. 



Antenna with rather long bunches of fasciculate cilia (twice diameter 

 of shaft?). 



Head, palpus and thorax predominantly olive-brown : antennal shaft 

 dark brown ; pectus and legs much as in last species ; dorsum of 

 abdomen dull rufous clothed with purplish and olive-brown hair ; ven- 

 tral surface dull rufous ; anal tufts white. 



Fore wing pale rufous, thickly irrorated with olive- brown and 

 purplish-grey ; some silvery-grey scales on termen (especially at apex) ; 

 costa pure white ; wing very glossy, the markings rather more sharply 

 denned than in G. caroli ; lines olive-brown. Antemedial line from 

 one-third costa to two-fifths hindmargin, oblique or very slightly in- 

 curved ; a black discal point ; postmedial line from two-thirds costa to 

 hindmargin near tornus, oblique, excurved at E 3 and very slightly so at 

 SC 5 ; a diffused subterminal shade, much as in the last species ; fringe 

 brown with a slight pale line at base and some white at tips, 



