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6955. Carea internifusca, n. sp. 



Carca purpurea, Hinpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 59, pi. 141. f. 4 (nee f. 9;. 



Head and thorax deep chocolate-red; palpi fiery red at hase ; 

 antennae 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 area white suffused with brown ; the under- 

 side white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 flesh-red 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Assam, Khiisis, 1 S fyp« ; Madras, Nilgiris (Ilampson), 

 2 2 tyT^ei purpurea, §. Kvjy, c? 34, $ 44 millim, 



6956. Carea ocyra. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 3.) 



Carea oci/ra, Swinli. A. M. N. H. (6) xii. p. 2G2 (1893). 



5 . Head and thorax deep chocolate-red ; palpi white in front 

 at base ; antennae 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 

 wins; deep chocolate-red mostly suffused with purple-grey ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, 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 

 indistinct, 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. 



Ilab. SiNGAPOEE {IlidlqiX 2 5 type. Exp. 36 millim. 



6957. Carea metaphsea, n. sp, (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 4.) 



c5" . 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 rufoiis, 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 lina 



