508 NOCTUID®. 
6955. Carea internifusca, n. sp. 
Carea purpurea, Hmpsn, Tl, Het. B.M. viii. p. 59, pl. 141. f. 4 (nec f. 9). 
Head and thorax deep chocolate-red; palpi fiery red at base; 
antenne with the basal joint white on outer side; pectus and legs 
white suffused with fiery red; abdomen fuscous brown; the 
ventral surface fiery red. Fore wing deep chocolate-red tinged 
with violaceous grey and thickly irrorated with dark brown, the 
costal edge red; antemedial line brown, oblique, straight, from 
costa to middle of inner margin; a black discoidal point ; post- 
medial line dark, oblique, excurved below costa and at middle and 
incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; a somewhat sinuous 
subterminal series of slight dark spots; cilia blackish at base, the 
tips red to vein 2, then white. Hind wing flesh-red, the basal 
area white, the inner arca white suffused with brown; the under- 
side white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 flesh-red 
irrorated with brown. 
Hab. Assam, Khisis, 1 ¢ type; Mapras, Nilgiris (/Zampson), 
2 2 type purpurea, 29. Exp, 3 34, 9 44 millim, 
6956. Carea ocyra. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 3.) 
Carea ocyra, Swinh, A. M. N. H. (6) xii. p. 262 (1893). 
2. Head and thorax deep chocolate-red ; palpi white in front 
at base; antenne with the basal joint white on outer side; pectus 
and legs white, the latter irrorated with red-brown; abdomen 
greyish fuscous with white segmental lines, the anal tuft reddish, 
the ventral surface white tinged with red towards extremity. Fore 
wing decp chocolate-red mostly suffused with purple-grey ; ante- 
medial line indistinet, dark defined on outer side by white suffusion, 
oblique and straight from costa to middle of inner margin ; post- 
medial line hardly traceable, excurved below costa and at middle 
and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; subterminal line 
indistinet, dark defined on outer side by white suffusion, slightly 
excurved below vein 7 and very slightly waved at veins 4, 3. 
Hind wing brick-red, the costal area whitish to beyond middle, 
the inner area whitish suffused with brown; the underside white, 
the terminal area suffused with purplish brown from costa to 
vein 2, 
Hab. Stxcarorn (Ridley), 2 9 type. Exp. 36 millim, 
6957. Carea metaphea, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 4.) 
d. Head and thorax bright red-brown ; palpi, pectus, and legs 
whitish tinged with red-brown; abdomen red-brown tinged with 
grey, the anal tuft white, the ventral surface rufous, whitish at 
base. Fore wing red-brown suffused in parts with greyish brown, 
the costal edge white; antemedial line indistinct, dark, oblique 
and slightly sinuous; a blackish discoidal point ; postmedial line 
