CAKE A I) ES. 



539 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea {Le Hunte), type f J in Coll. Eothscliild, 

 Ekcikei (Pratt), tj-pe f c? sanguined in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Ea^j. 

 J 48, 2 43 millim. 



6921. Careades plagioscia. 



Carea j)lagioscia, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 7 (1903). 



S ' Head and thorax deep red-brown ; pectus and legs orange ; 

 abdomen black-brown, the ventral surface orange except at ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing dark red-brown suiFused with greyish except 

 at base, on inner area, on costa beyond the postmedial line and on 

 termen below apex ; traces of an oblique waved antcmedial line ; a 

 double line from middle of costa to tornus ; traces of a subterminal 

 punctiform line. Hind wing black-brown, underside of fore wing 



Fig. 206. — Careades plagioscia, ^5". }. 



dark brown, the costal and apical areas fiery red ; hind wing 

 fier}' red. 



2 . Fore wing with the anteracdial line oblique below the cell, 

 the postmedial line arising from costa well beyond middle, slightly 

 excurved below costa then incurved. 



Hah. Dutch jS". Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 c? , Arfak Mts., 

 Ninay Valley (Pratt), 2 $ , Snow Mts., Octakwa E,. (iMeek), 1 J , 

 1 5 ; Queensland, Geraldton, Johnstone 11., type f c? in Coll. 

 Turner. Fxj). 40 millim. 



Sect. III. Fore wing with the costa harcllj excised at middle, the termen evenly 

 curved. 



A. Hind wing red, the inner area fuscous. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from middle of 



costa to tornus. 

 a^. Fore wing crimson-red slightly iirorated with brown ... ohliqua. 

 li^. Fore wing grey suffiised with red-brown subrubra. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from costa to 



vein 6, then erect ftilva. 



B. Hind wing fuscous brown rubricoia. 



*6922. Careades ohliqua. (Plate CLXXXVIll. fig. 26.) 

 Careades ohliqua, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool, xiii. p. 245 (1906). 



S . Head and tborax red-brown tinged with crimson ; palj>i, 

 pectus, and legs crimson-red ; abdomen greyish fuscous, whitish at 



