CAREA, 5AT 
6932. Carea varipes. 
Carea varipes, Wik. x. 475 (1856); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 116, pl. 123. 
ff. 1, 1a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 423. 
Chora curvifera, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. 188 (1862). 
Dabarita rhodophila, Wik. xxxiii. 718 (1865). 
Head and thorax brick-red, the head and teguie rather paler ; 
palpi chocolate-red, pale in front; antenne with the basal joint 
white at sides; pectus and legs pure white, the fore legs in front 
and the mid and hind tibia and tarsi above chocolate-red; abdomen 
chocolate-red, pale red at sides and below. Fore wing bright red 
with a slight silvery grey gloss especially beyond the postmedial 
line and very slight black irroration ; black points in cell towards 
extremity and on discocellulars; a double incurved blackish line 
Fig 211.—Carea varipes, S$. }. 
from costa towards apex to tornus, a faint brownish shade before 
it on costal area; cilia bright rufous, blackish and white at 
tornus. Hind wing orange-red; the underside tinged with 
purplish and irrorated with fuscous, the inner area white. 
Ab. 1. curvifera. Fore wing with a pateh of black suffusion at 
lower angle of cell. 
Ab. 2. rhodophila. Fore wing with the postmedial line more 
prominent and with olive suffusion before it on costa. 
Ab. 3. Head and thorax grey-brown; abdomen purplish grey, 
blackish at extremity ; fore wing purplish grey tinged in parts with 
olive. 
Hab, Honaxone (T. B. Fletcher), 1 $; Assam (Badyley) 1 92; 
Cryton, 2 9; Pxrnana (Ridley), 1 9; Stncarorn (Ridley), 5 9 ; 
Boxrnno, 1 9; Java ({Horsfield), 1 3,1 2 type rhodophila. Exp. 
42-46 millim. 
Larva. Thoracic somites very much dilated, an elongate conical 
tubercle on 11th somite; colour purplish or greenish olive-brown, a 
purplish white stripe from 3rd to 11th somites; head small, red. 
Cocoon. Compact, oval with a conical dorsal projection in front. 
6933. Carea tumida. (Plate CLXXXVIII. fig. 30.) 
Carea tumida, Hmpsn, A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 894 (1905). 
Head and thorax deep rufous; palpi blackish ; frons whitish at 
base with blackish bars above and between antenne; tegule with 
2 Ne? 
