CAREADES. 



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followed by a slight diffused dark obliquely incurved line ; faint 

 traces of a brownish subfermiiial line incurved below costa and 

 excurved at middle ; cilia dark chocolate-brown from apex to 

 vein 4. Hind wing bright yellow suffused with fiery red on apical 



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Fig. 205. — Careades fcdcataria, c?. \. 



area, the inner area tinged with red and with some brownish hair 

 in submedian fold. Underside of both wings yellow with the costal 

 half suffused with fiery red. 



Hah. Be. jST. Guinea, Ekeikei {Pratt), type f <5 in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 46 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with the termen sliglitly excised below apex ; fore tibia? of 

 male moderately fringed witli hair. 



A. Fore wing with tbe apical half suffused with olive-green ... eceicci. 



B. Fore wing with the basal half suffused with sap-green hemichlora. 



C. Fore wing without green suffusion. 



a,. Hind wing with the apical area chocolate-red to vein 2 ... liuntei. 



h. Hind wing iiniform black-brown plagioscia. . 



*6918. Careades eceicei. (Plate CLXXXYIII. fig. 24.) 



Careades ekeikei, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 241 (1906). 



S . Head, tegulse, and front of thorax black-brown, the rest of 

 thorax pale grey ; palpi white at base in front ; pectus and legs 

 white, the fore femora crimson-red on inner side, the tarsi suffused 

 with crimson-red ; abdomen grej' with the lateral area olive-grey 

 on basal half, the sides on terminal half and extremity blackish, 

 the anal tuft red above ochreous below, the ventral surface blackish 

 with some red at base. Fore wing pale grey, with slight dark 

 irroration, the apical half tinged with olive-grey, the costal edge 

 tinged with rufous ; antemedial line slight, brown with darker 

 striga from costa, then oblique, waved ; a deep olive band defined 

 on outer side by black and then by white from middle of costa to 

 tornus ; a diffused whitish subterminal band ending at tornus, the 

 area beyond it rather darker olive-grey. Hind wing fuscous black 



