548 NOCTUIDJE. 



black line near base ; fore legs blackish in front; pectus ■whitish ; 

 abdomen rufous, doi-sally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing bright 

 rufous suffused with silky grey on inner area, as a wedge-shaped 

 patch from basal half of costa to near tornus, and from postmedial 

 line to near termen ; subbasal line represented by an oblique black 

 striga from costa ; an indistinct, oblique, slightly curved ante- 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, black, from costa beyond 

 middle to tornus; an indistinct subterminal line, somewhat oblique 

 and maculate from costa to vein 6 and obscurely angled inwards at 

 vein 5. Hind wing fiery red, the inner area fuscous brown. 

 Underside fiery red ; fore wing with the apical area suffused with 

 grey ; hind wing tinged with grey. 



Hah. Penang {S. S. Flower), 1 5; Singapore {Ridley), 1 S\ 

 Borneo, Sadong (Shelf ord), 1 J , 1 5 type. E.vj). 48 millim. 



6934. Carea costiplaga. (Plate CLXXXYIII. fig. 8.) 



Carea costiplaga, Swinb. A. M. N. H. (6) xii. p. 262 (1893); Hmpsii. 

 Moths Incl. 'ii. p. 424. 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with purplish grey; pectus 

 whitish; abdomen fuscous brown, the extremity greyish, the ventral 

 surface fiery red. Fore wing purple-grey slightly irrorated with 

 blackish ; a subbasal black striga from costa ; a conical antemedial 

 black-brown patch on costa with oblique line fromittomiddleof inner 

 margin, sometimes with faint green suffusion beyond it below the 

 cell ; a black discoidal point ; a large truncate conical black-brown 

 patch on postmedial area from costa to discal fold with an obliquely 

 curved line from its inner edge to inner margin ; the subterminal 

 line represented by a faint dark shade below the patch ; cilia dark 

 brown from a[>ex to vein 2. Hind wing purplish red, the inner 

 area grey suffused with 'brown; the underside paler, the apical 

 area slightly irrorated with brown, the inner area grey. 



Hah. Assam, Sibsagar, 3 5 tj-pe ; Andamans, 1 J ; Borneo, 

 Sandakan (Pryer), 1 c5' . Exp. 36 millim. 



6935. Carea repandens. 



Chora repandens, Wlk. Jonrn. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 188 (1862). 

 Cosmia sundana, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 38 (1872). 



2 . Head and thorax deep chocolate-red ; palpi white in front ; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore femora rufous above, the fore tibiae 

 and the tarsi irrorated with rufous; abdomen purplish grey-brown, 

 the ventral surface white tinged with rufous. Fore wing chocolate- 

 red suffused with silvery purple except on basal area, before the 

 postmedial line and on termen ; the costal edge whitish at base ; 

 antemedial line oblique, slightly waved, bent inwards to inner 

 margin ; a black discoidal point ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with silvery purple, oblique and ending at tornus ; traces of a 

 punctiform dark subterminal line defined on outer side by whitish, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and middle. Hind wing fuscous brown. 



