116 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



and a postmedial blackish waved line, a submarginal and a marginal row of black 

 spots ; a black spot in middle of tlie cell and a lunule at the end : hindwing whitish, 

 with slight red suffused apical border, and a marginal row of minute black dots. 

 Thorax purplish-red, abdomen paler; palpi, abdomen, and legs beneath whitish. 



Expanse i% to 1 inch. 



Larva pale purple, with a purple-red dorsal tubercle on sixth and another on 

 twelfth segment ; anterior segments with minute black-bordered white tubercular 

 spots, and two lateral rows of similar spots on all the segments, from each of these 

 and the dorsal tubercles project short fine whitish hairs ; a dorsal yellow band from 

 anterior to posterior tubercle. Cocoon pale purphsh-red, attached by a silken peduncle 

 to a leaf or twig, truncated and with a conical projection at one end. 



" Feeds on Celtis onentalis." 



Subfamily CAREIN.^. 

 Larva with sixteen feet, naked; anterior segments tumid; with a dorsal 

 prominence on the twelfth segment. 



Genus CAREA. 



Carea, Walker, Cat.il. Lep. Het. B. M. x. p. 475 (1856). 

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



Forewing shghtly elongated, costa arched at the base, apex pointed, exterior 

 margin convex, posterior angle pointed, posterior margin convex at base ; first sub- 

 costal emitted at nearly half before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, bifid, third 

 at one-fourth from its base ; fourth from end of the cell, ascending and joining third 

 for a short distance, fifth from near its base below the junction with third; dis- 

 cocellular slender, concave ; upper radial fi-om end of cell in a line with subcostal, 

 lower radial from near lower end of discocellular ; middle median from near end of 

 the cell, lower median at one-fourth before the end : submedian recurved : hindwins: 

 short, broad, exterior margin very convex; costal and subcostal touching near their 

 base ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular deeply concave, oblique ; 

 radial from near its lower end ; two upper medians from acute angle at end of the 

 cell, lower at one-sixth before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 compactly clothed, abdomen extending beyond hindwing ; palpi porrect, squamose, 

 second joint long, third minute, conical ; antennte ciliated in male ; legs thickly pilose, 

 middle and hind tib* tumid, hind tibte with four spurs. 



CAEEA VAEIPES (Plate 123, Fig. 1, ?, la, larva). 

 Carea varices, Walker, Cat.ll. Lep. Het. B. M. x. p. 475 (1856). 

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

 Dabarita rhodophila. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. sxxiii. p. 718 (1865), ?. 



Male and female. Ferruginous-red : forewing with a few scattered minute black 



