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Fore wing typically olive-brown (sometimes mahogany or purplish- 

 brown), irrorated with white, especially on (and posteriorly between) 

 antemedial and postmedial lines, before termen and (slightly) near 

 base, the medial white irroration sometimes continued almost to 

 costa ; a black cell-dot, proximally defined by white ; antemedial line 

 oblique, slightly sinuous, from two-thirds costa to near middle of 

 hindmargin, distally dark-edged ; postmedial proximately dark-edged, 

 from four-sevenths costa to four-fifths hindmargin, twice excurved, 

 as in endophaea Hmpsn. {A.M.N. H. [7] xvi, 596 [1905] [Travancore]), 

 but with the curve behind R 2 larger ; a subterminal dark shade crossing 

 the white irroration, angled outward behind SC 5 and inward on R 2 , 

 excurved to M 2 , obsolescent at tornus, usually more or less broken 

 into spots. In one or two specimens an oblique blackish shade crosses 

 the disc from the first curve of postmedial to antemedial line at middle 

 of fold. 



Hind wing cerise-pink, more yellowish-white at base, in fold and 

 at abdominal margin. 



Underside of fore wing red (except at hindmargin), with some 

 apical white irroration. Hind wing reddish to M and M 1 , thence 

 yellowish-white to abdominal margin ; costa and distal third of inter- 

 spaces from apex to R 2 irrorated with dark purple ; the veins orange. 



? , 42—47 mm. 



Thorax and fore wing typically nearly matching the typical cf , but 

 rather brighter (more ochraceous) with hardly any white irroration; 

 in one ? the ground-colour of fore wing is deep purplish-red, cor- 

 responding to the dark $ $ , but somewhat brighter. 



Central West Buru : Gamoe 'Mrapat, 5,000 feet, March-April, 

 1922, seven $ $ , six ? ? . 



Should probably follow G. obsolescens Moore (Trans. Ent. Soc, 

 1884, p. 356 [Bombay]), according to the System of Cat. Lep. Phal. xi. 



13. Carea semipallida, sp. nov. (pi. XXII, fig. 14). 

 Belongs to Section IV — A of Hampson. 

 $ , 42 — 45 mm. 



Head and thorax dull brownish-red ; abdomen above brownish-grey 

 slightly tinged in parts with pink, the anal tuft white ; pectus, legs and 

 abdomen beneath yellowish-white with some brown shading and pink 

 irroration. 



