NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 227 



70. Careades plana spec. nov. 



? . Fawn-colour washed with rufous as far as outer Hue, and finely dusted with 

 black atoms ; inner line represented only by a double patch of black scales at 

 one-third of inner margin; outer line double, reddish, indistinct, vertical but 

 slightly concave outwards, from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, 

 like the inner line marked with black scales on inner margin ; two slight dark 

 spots in cell ; a faint reddish tinge along termen ; fringe concolorons, tipped with 

 white at tornus ; hindwing orange-red in terminal half, much paler basewards ; 

 fringe red from apex to vein 2, then white ; inner margin slightly olive-grey, the 

 fringe white. 



A single ? from Cedar Bay, Cooktown, N. Queensland. 



71. Careades neglecta spec. nov. 



<5. Forewing pinkish or greyish fawn-colour, with olive-brown suffusion in 

 basal area, along inner margin, and beyond outer line ; a reddish blotch on inner 

 margin near base, not always visible ; markings much as in subrubra, but less 

 heavy. Hindwing coppery red, with the inner margin blackish fuscous ; ? suf- 

 fused with bright fulvous; the inner line obliquely curved to near middle of inner 

 margin, the outer double, bent below costa, then incurved and vertical ; subterminal 

 line blacker and more complete than usual, interrupted only in the middle ; a rufous 

 patch on inner margin near base ; some blackish scaling on inner margin at end of 

 the lines. 



Oetakwa River, S.E. Dutch New Guinea, up to 3000 ft., October — December 

 1910 (A. S. Meek), type ; Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., 3500 ft., November 

 1908— January 1909. 



72. Careades approximata spec. nov. 



Foreioing purplish plum-colour ; the lines fulvous ; a fulvous patch on inner 

 margin near base ; inner line widely outcurved from quite one-third of costa to 

 middle of inner margin ; indistinctly double ; outer line double ; the inner arm 

 oblique and diffuse from middle of costa to vein 8, then right-angled and slightly 

 oblique outwards ; the outer arm straight ; in the right wing the line is indented on 



the cell-fold ; subterminal line well expressed. Hinrliuing more orange-red than 



coppery. 



A single ? from the Upper Setekwa River, S.E. Dutch New Guinea, September 

 1910 (A. S. Meek). It may be distinguished by the much narrower breadth of the 

 median area between inner and outer lines. 



