CA.BEA. 



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0932. Carea varipes. 



Carea varipes, Wlk. x. 475 (1856); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. IIG, pi. 123. 



ff. 1, 1 a ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. '123. 

 Chora curvifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 188 (1862), 

 Babarita rhodopMla, Wlk. xxxiii. 718 (1865). 



Head and thorax brick-red, the head and teguife rather paler ; 

 palpi chocolate-red, pale in front ; antennae with the basal joint 

 white at sides ; pectus and legs pure white, the fore legs in front 

 and the mid and hind tibiae 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 discocclkilars ; a double incurved blackish line 



Fig 211. — Carea varij)es, cT. '. 



from costa towards apex to tormis, 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 patch of black suffusion at 

 lower angle of cell. 



Ab. 2. rhodopMla. 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. 



Hah. HoKGKONG (r. B. Fletcher),! J; Assam (Bad</leij) 1 §; 

 Ceyio^% 2 5 ; Penans {Ridley), 1 f ; Singapoee {Ridley), 5 j ; 

 BoKNEO, 1 5 ; Java (ffors/leld), 1 d" , 1 ? type rJiodoj^JiiJa. Exj). 

 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. 



G933. Carea tumida. (Plate CLXXXVIII. fig. 30.) 

 Carea tumida, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xyi. p. 594 (1905). 



Head and thorax deep rufous ; palpi blackish ; frons whitish at 

 base with blackish bars above and between antennae ; tegulse with. 



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