CARKADE3. 



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red, the apical area slightly irrorated with black, the inner area 

 whitish with the tuft of hair deep red. 



$ . Redder ; fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 double, the latter less oblique with orange-red before and beyond it 

 at costa. 



Hah. Bk. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), type f S in Coll. 

 Bethuiie-Baker, Diuawa. Exp. 42 millim. 



*6924. Careades fulva. (Plate CLXXXVIII. fig. 27.) 



Careadesfidva, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 244 (1006). 



r? . Head and thorax reddish olive-brown, the prothorax with 

 white scales below teguhe, the dorsum oF thorax ochreous yellow ; 

 palpi crimson behiud and with some white scales towards tips ; 

 lower part of Irons white ; antennas with the basal joint white on 

 outer side ; pectus and legs pale red, the fore and mid femora at 

 extremities and tibite at base white, the fore tibiae and tarsi red- 

 brown in front irrorated with white ; abdomen browni suffused with 

 silvery grey and with red at extremity, the ventral surface deep 

 crimson, black-brown at extremity, the genital tufts yellowish 

 white. Fore wing olive-brown tinged with red, the costa slightly 

 irrorated with silver ; minute blackish spots in cell towards ex- 

 tremity and on discocellulars ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, 

 slightly defined by silver on outer side, and very oblique from costa 

 to rein 6, then more prominent and defined by silvery white, erect 

 and ending near tornus ; a diffused subterminal band of silvery 

 white expanding inwardly on costal area and ending on termen just 

 above tornus ; cilia red. Hind wing bright orange-red, the inner 

 area clothed with silvery grey hair. Underside of both wings red ; 

 fore wing with some white at base of costa and at apex ; hind wing 

 with brown suffusion on apical area, the inner area whitish. 



5 . Pinker ; fore wing with slight dark antemedial line, the 

 postmedial line evenly curved to vein 2 then angled outwards and 

 oblique to inner mnrgin ; hind wing paler. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker, Ekeikoi. Eay. J' 50, 5 45 millim. 



6925. Careades rubricosa. (Plate CLXXXVIII. fig. 28.) 



Careades rubricosa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 215 (1906). 



5 . Head and thorax deep crimson ; palpi white in front and 

 brown at tips ; pectus and legs pure white, the tibiae slightly 

 irrorated with brown and the tarsi tinged with crimson ; abdomen 

 black-brown slightly mixed with grey, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface crimson-red, the latter with white mixed at base. Pore 

 wing deep crimson suffused with silvery purple except an oblique 

 band from base of costa to inner margin, before postmedial line and 

 on terminal area from below apex to vein 2 and with slight black 

 irroration ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, oblique from costa to 



