542 NOCTUID,^!). 



median nervnre, then more erect ; black points in end of cell and 

 on discocellnlars ; postmedial line double, blackish filled in with 

 silvery purple, the outer line indistinct, slightly exeurved below 

 rosta, then more erect ; cilia purple mixed with blacldsh. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, the cilia ficrj red, pale towards tornus. Under- 

 side of fore wing fiery red tinged with purple on costal area, the 

 inner half brown except on terminal erea, the apex with slight 

 whitish sufi^usion ; hind wing fiery red, the inner half whitish 

 except at termcn. 



(^ . Fore wing more chocolate-brown and less red, the postmedial 

 lino oblique from middle of costa to tornus. 



Hah. DtJTCH N. Guinea, Snow Mts., Oetakwa U. {Meelc), 1 S , 

 2 5 ; Br. N. Gitin-ea, Ekeikei {Pratt), type t $ in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 44 millira. 



Genus CARE A. 



Type. 



Carea. Wlk. x. 474 (l^ofi) varipps. 



Baharita, Wlk. x. 478 (1806) suhtilis. 



Bidigua, Wlk. Joum. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 181 (1802) seticornis, 



Chora. Wlk. Jonrn. Linn. Son., Zool. tI. p. 188 (1862) repandens. 



jRanaJa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 121 (1882) fasciata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi iiptarned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of frona and moderately scaled, the 3rd minute, porrect, frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; tliorax clot-lied with hair only 

 and without crests; mid and hind tibire fringed with long hair ; the hind tibise 

 of male typically very short with minute terminal spur on outer side only, the 

 1st joint of tarsus very long, strongly dilated and fringed with long hair on 

 inner side ; abdomen with dorsal cre.sts on two basal segment.s. Fore wing 

 with the apex somewhat produced, the termen not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 

 from the areole or from angle of cell ; 11 froin cell. ITind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell, rarely stalked; 5 fnlly developed from or from just 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 ana-stomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below a)>es, escurvecl at middle 

 and excised below vein 4. 



A. {Baharlla.} Hind tibiic of male with minute terminal spur on inner side 

 only. 



C926. Carea snbtilis. 



Baharita suhtiliff, Wlk. x. 479 (18.58) ; Snell. Tijd. v. Enfc. xxiii. p. 76, 

 pi. P. f. 5 (1880) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p, 117, pi. 123. ff. 3, 3 a ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 422. 



Head and thorax flesh-pink; palpi brownish, the ]st joint 

 white in front ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibia) and 

 tarsi rufous in front, the fore tarsi blackish towards extremity ; 

 abdomen white dorsally suffused with flesh-pink, the crests brownish. 

 Fore wing flesh-pink sufiused wnth violaceous white and sparsely 

 irrorated with black; antemedial line brown, very indistinctly 

 double, oblique, from costa to middle of inner margin ; a black 

 discoidal point; postmedial line double, brown, incurved, from costa 

 towards apex to tornus, a faint red-brown shade before it narrow- 

 ing to a point at submedian fold ; cilia dark brown at tips. Hind 



