560 koctuid.t:. 



excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing pure white, the 

 tennen and cilia tinged witli crimson-red from apex to vein 3, 



Hah. Ceylon, Puttalam {Pole), 1 S type, 5 in Coll. Mackwood. 

 Exjy, 32 millim. 



6960. Carea roMnsoni. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 6.) 



Carca rohlnsoni, Swinli. in Annan. & Eobins. Fascic. Malay., Zool. i. p. 75 

 (1903). 



5 . Head and thorax chocolate red-brown ; palpi white at base ; 

 antennfe with the basal joint white on outer side ; pectus and legs 

 white, the fore femora chocolate-brown above, the tibite and tarsi 

 banded with brown ; abdomen dorsally suffused with grey-brown 

 and red-brown, leaving slight white segmental lines, the anal tufc 

 and ventral surface white. I'ore wing chocolate red-brown ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, brown with some white scales on it, waved ; 

 some white scales on discocellulars ; postmedial line brown with 

 some white scales on it, excurved below costa and at middle and 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; subterminal line brown 

 with a patch of white suffusion irrorated with brown before it from 

 below costa to vein 5 and with white spots on outer side and an 

 oblique mark from apex, then defined on each side by small white 

 spots, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 incurved at discal fold; cilia with a series of white points at base, 

 the tips white on inner half. Hind wing pure white, the apex 

 suffused with red, the extremities of the veins with slight red 

 streaks to vein 2 ; cilia with a red line through them from apex to 

 vein 3 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with red. 



Hah. Straits Settlements, Selangor, Semangho (Robinson), 

 1 5 type. Exp. 36 millim. 



6961. Carea albopurpurea. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 7.) 



Carea alhojmrptirea, Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 424 (1894) ; Swinli. 

 A.M.N. IL (6) XV. p. 9(1895). 



Head, tegulte, and front of thorax red-brown ; antcnure with the 

 basal joint Avhite on outer side ; thorax white slightly mixed with 

 brown ; the fore legs and mid tibiae in front red-brown, the tarsi red- 

 brown ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown, 

 the costal area and inner area from antemedial line to tornus tinged 

 with purplish grey, the costal edge rufous ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double brown striae from costa; antemedial line red- 

 brown, oblique, sinuous ; a slight red-brown discoidal lunule with 

 oblique striga above it from costa, the area just beyond the cell 

 tinged with yellow and the veins with brown streaks ; postmedial 

 line double, red-broAvn filled in with white, slightly excurved below 

 costa and strongly at middle, incurved at discal fold and below vein 

 3 ; a red-brown subterminal line, punctiform except towards costa 

 and tornus and slightly angled outwards below vein 7 and at 



