CAREA. 423 



purplish blotch on costa before the apex ; outer margin suffused 

 with chestnut below the apex. Abdomen and hind wing pale 

 reddish brown. 



The Sikhim specimen has the green spots large. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Ceylon. Exp. 34 millim. 



SECT. II. (Carea). Fore wing with the outer margin 

 regularly curbed. 



2333. Carea varipes, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 475 ; Moore, Lev. Ceyl. ii, pi. 123, 



figs. 1,1 ; C.$S. no. 1121. 



Chora curvifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 188. 

 Dabarita rhodophila, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 718. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing pale or dark red-brown, or suffused 

 with olive-green. Pore wing with an indistinct curved oblique 

 antemedial line ; two dark specks in the end of cell ; a curved 

 double line from costa to outer angle ; traces of a dark or greyish 

 submarginal line. Hind wing reddish orange ; the inner margin 

 whitish or fuscous. Abdomen red-brown or fuscous. 



Larva with the thoracic somites very much swollen ; an elon- 

 gated conical tubercle on llth somite. Colour purplish or 

 greenish olive-brown ; a purplish white band from 3rd to llth 

 somite ; head small and red. 



Cocoon with a conical projection from the end, compact, and 

 oval. 



ffab. Assam ; Ceylon ; Malacca ; Borneo ; Java. Exp., J 43, 

 $ 48 millim. 



2334. Carea nitida, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen paler, with a pink 

 tinge at sides. Fore wing dark red-brown suffused with purplish 

 grey, except the postrnedial area ; oblique, slightly curved, ante- and 

 postmedial dark lines ; an indistinct waved submarginal line. 

 Hind wing bright red, the inner area suffused with fuscous. 

 Underside of fore wing red ; hind wing ochreous, irrorated with 

 red. 



Hob. Sikhim (Elwes). Exp. 40 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



2335. Carea purpurea, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, 59, pi. 141, figs. 4, 9. 



Fore wing with the apex more acute. Head, thorax, and fore 

 wing dark purplish red-brown, the last with a line from the costa 

 before the middle to inner margin beyond the middle ; a dark 

 speck at end of cell ; a waved slightly oblique postmedial line ; a 

 series of submarginal specks. Hind wing pale yellow, suffused 

 with reddish orange towards outer margin. Abdomen reddish 

 fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nilgiris. Exp., <$ 32, $ 40 millim. 



2336. Carea obsolescens, Moore. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 356 : C. & S. 



no. 1120. 



