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fifths hind margin; subterniinal shade very slight, diffused, waved, but 

 (apparently) not strongly angled. 



Hind wing much as in egens. 



Underside somewhat as in egens, but with the pale shades even less 

 tinged with yellow and with more red on fore wing and on apex of 

 hind wing. 



S.W. Sumatra : North Korintji Valley, 5,000 feet, September- 

 October, 1921, S — holotype only. 



Distinguished from all other Carea species in this group known 

 to me by the perfectly straight, equidistant and widely separated lines 

 on the fore wing. 



10. Carea erectilinea sp. nov. (pi. XXII, fig. 11). 

 Belongs to Section IV — A of Hampson. 

 $ , ? , 40—47 mm. 



Head, palpus, antenna and thorax predominantly chocolate-brown ; 

 abdomen above greyish-brown, with the first abdominal crest (in one 

 $ with both abdominal crests) white, anal tuft, pectus, legs and 

 abdomen beneath ochraceous, the legs shaded with brown. 



Fore wing dull violet-grey, thickly irrorated with greenish-ochraceous 

 except on medial area, with black cell-dot, erect, somewhat indistinct 

 antemedial and postmedial lines (which are nearly obsolete at costa) 

 and an erect, slightly waved, diffused subterminal shade, which has 

 a tendency to become broken at middle ; in the ? this shade is rather 

 more waved and less diffused. 



Hind wing pale pinkish-orange, with posterior third greyish-brown. 



Underside of fore wing pale pinkish-orange (posteriorly whitish), 

 with apex and fringe violet-grey and the cell and fold (to about two- 

 thirds of wing) deeper, more greenish in tone, more thickly scaled. 

 Hind wing with both shades paler than above, the pinkish area reduced 

 to a slight shade along costa and a large apical patch, the two colours 

 shading gradually into each other. 



Perak, 2,000-3,500 feet (W. Doherty), S , holotype; Selangor : 

 Bukit Kutu, April, 1915, ? , allotype, presented to Coll. Joicey by the 

 Baffles Museum. A <? from Negri Sembilan : Gunong Angsi, 2,000- 

 2,700 feet, April, 1918, belonging to the Baffles Museum, is also 

 before me. 



Nearest to C. trilineata Warr. (Nov. Zool., xix, p. 40 [1912] 

 [Khasias]), but has the fore wing paler, more variegated, with the 



