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with a greyish tinge, the inner margin fringed with rufous hair at 
base, and white hair towards tornus. Underside of fore wing fuscous 
with the apical half of costa white; hind wing fuscous, the basal 
and inner areas suffused with crimson red, the apical area slightly 
irrorated with black. 
2. Fore wing with the band nearly erect with bronze-green 
suffusion beyond it. 
Hab, Br. N. Gurvea, Ekeikei (Pratt), type tT ¢ in Coll. Bethune- 
Baker. Lap. 44 millim. 
*6919. Careades hemichlora. (Plate CXCI. fig. 28.) 
Careades hemichlora, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1911, p. 309. 
3. Head and thorax chocolate-brown suffused with sap-green ; 
pectus ochreous white; legs ochreous white suffused with rufous ; 
abdomen fuscous tinged with grey, the ventral surface rufous. Fore 
wing with the basal half deep sap-green, the costal edge reddish 
with some purple-grey below it, the green area defined by an 
oblique purple-grey line from costa before middle to tornus; the 
rest of wing purple-grey with some rufous beyond the oblique line 
and some greenish on terminal area from below apex to below 
middle ; slight fuscous postmedial spots below veins 8 and 6. Hind 
wing fuscous brown; the cilia whitish, tinged with rufous towards 
apex. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown, the costa red towards 
base, whitish towards apex, some red on terminal area below apex ; 
kind wing red with the submedian interspace fuscous brown. 
Hab. Burv, type  ¢ in Coll. de Joannis. Zxp. 50 millim, 
*6920. Careades huntei. (Plate CLXXXYIII. fig. 25.) 
Thyrsosceles huntei, Warr. Nov. Zool. x. p. 123 (1903). 
Careades sanguinea, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 243 (1906). 
¢. Head and thorax deep chocolate-red; palpi black-brown, 
yellow at base and on inner side; pectus and legs yellow tinged 
with rufous ; abdomen fuscous brown slightly tinged with grey, the 
ventral surface rufous except at extremity. Fore wing brown- 
pink with a slight greyish gloss and sparsely irrorated with black, 
the inner area and the terminal area from below apex to vein 2 
suffused with chocolate-red, the veins with slight dark streaks, the 
costal edge rufous; antemedial line brown, erect to subcostal 
nervure, excurved to vein 1, then curved inwards to inner margin ; 
an oblique band red-brown on inner side, black-brown on outer 
from middle of costa to tornus; a slight brown subterminal line 
slightly angled outwards below veins 9, 7, 4 and ending on termen 
above tornus; cilia dark brown. Hind wing dark brown, the apical 
area chocolate-red to vein 2. Underside of fore wing fiery red with 
some white suffusion on terminal half of costa; hind wing fiery 
red, the apical area slightly irrorated with brown. 
@. Fore wing with the band somewhat inwardly oblique; hind 
wing wholly brown. 
