CAREA. 551 



Ilah. DtjiCH N. GcrmEA, Arfak Mts, Ninay Valley {Pratt), 1 J, 

 1 2; Br. ISr. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type f J in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker ; Uubensland, Kuraiida (Dodd), 1 5 . Er2:>. 40 

 millim. 



6937. Carea purpurea. 



Carea pm-jmrea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 59, pi. 141. f. 9 (1891), 

 nee f. 4 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 423. 



Head and thorax deep chocolate-red ; palpi dark brown, white in 

 front ; antennae Avith the basal joint white at outer side ; pectus 

 and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae 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. Tore 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 sutt'used with fiery red ; the underside 

 with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 suft'usedwith fiery 

 red and irrorated with brown. 



JJab. Madras, Nilgiris (Plampson), 1 J , 1 $ type ; Teavancoee, 

 Pirmad {Imray), 1 J . Exp. 28-36 millim. 



6933. Carea biviata. (Plate CLXXXVllI. fig. 10.) 



Carea biviata, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 595 (1905). 



S . Head and thorax fierj^ red mixed with some yellow ; fore 

 tibise and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; pectus and mid and hind legs 

 whitish; abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the anal tuft blackish. 

 Pore 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 toM'ards 

 base. Hind wing pale fiery red ; the underside whitish with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated wdth brown. 



2 . Pore 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. $ . Similar to the male. 



Hab. Penanq (S. S. Floiver, lUdley), 1 cJ , 1 5 type 'i Perak, 

 Larut Hills {S. S. Flower), 1 $ ; Borneo, Sandakan {Pryer), in 

 Coll. Druce. E.q). 6 32, $ 40 millim. 



