CAREA, Hail 
Hab. Dorcu N. Gurnea, Arfak Mts. Ninay Valley (Pratt), 1 ¢, 
1 2; Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type t ¢ in Coll. 
Bethune-Baker; Qupunstann, Kuranda (Dodd), 19. vp. 40 
millim. 
6937, Carea purpurea. 
Carea purpurea, Hmpsn, Il. Het. B.M. viii. p. 59, pl. 141. f. 9 (1891), 
nec f, 4; id. Moths Ind. il. p. 428. 
Head and thorax deep chocolate-red ; palpi dark brown, white in 
front ; antenne with the basal joint white at outer side; pectus 
and legs white, the fore and mid tibiew suffused with dark brown, 
the tarsi dark brown ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, 
the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface white suffused with fiery 
red towards extremity. Fore wing deep chocolate-red with a silvery 
purple gloss and slightly irrorated with black, the costal edge 
redder; antemedial line slight, blackish, oblique from costa 
to middle of inner margin; a black discoidal point; postmedial 
line indistinct, blackish, very oblique to vein 6, then oblique to 
inner margin near tornus ; subterminal line only represented by 
the terminal area being faintly paler ; cilia blackish at tips. Hind 
wing white, the terminal half suffused with fiery red; the underside 
with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 suffused with fiery 
red and irrorated with brown. 
Hab, Manras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 3,1 @ type; TRAVANCORE, 
Pirmad (Imray), 1 3. Hep. 28-36 millim, 
6933. Carea biviata, (Plate CLXXXVIILI. fig. 10.) 
Carca biviata, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 595 (1905). 
6. Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some yellow; fore 
tibize and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; pectus and mid and hind legs 
whitish; abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the anal tuft blackish. 
Fore wing fiery red sparsely irrorated with black; the base of 
inner area yellowish, the apical area tinged with grey ; an oblique 
straight dark line from costa before middle to middle of inner 
margin; an oblique line from costa beyond middle to tornus, 
slightly excurved below costa, the inner margin dark except towards 
base. Hind wing pale fiery red; the underside whitish with the 
costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 
Q. Fore wing with the ground-colour nearly uniform fiery red ; 
the lines slightly more diffused, the postmedial line hardly excurved 
below costa; a dark discoidal point, 
Ab, 1. 2. Similar to the male. 
Hab. Penane (S. S. Flower, Ridley), 1 g, 1 9 type; Poarax, 
Larut Hills (S. S. lower), 1 2 ; Borneo, Sandakan (Pryer), in 
Coll. Druce. Hep. ¢ 32, 9 40 millim. 
