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scales whicli are most numerous on the exterior border ; a transverse duplex black 

 line, witli lilac-wbite centre, curving from tlie costa near the apex to posterior angle, 

 the outer ends of the line bordered with a few white scales ; two small black-speckled 

 spots in middle of the cell and one at its end : hindwing pale along costal border. 

 Palpi and legs above dark ferruginous ; pectus and legs beneath white ; abdomen 

 pale ferruginous at the base, with a blackish anal tuft. 



Expanse If inch. 



Larva with the second, third, and fourth segments extremely tumid, and an 

 elongated conical tubercle on twelfth segment; head small. Colour purplish olive- 

 brown, or greenish olive-brown above, green beneath, with a purplish-white lateral 

 band from fourth to last segment ; head red. Cocoon compact, bluntly oval, with a 

 conical point projecting from one end. Pupa purphsh olive-brown. 



" Feeds on Eugenia xanthocarpa." (Thwaites.) 



Genus DABARITA. 

 Dabarita, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. x. p. 478 (1856). 

 Closely allied to Carea. Forewing more produced and slightly falcated at the 

 tip, exterior margin very irregular and angular in the middle. Venation similar. 

 Palpi smaller, laxly squamose. 



DABARITA SITBTILIS (Plate 123, Fig. 3, 3a, <? ?). 

 Dabarita subtilis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. x. p. 479 (1856). 



Forewing varying from greyish-ferruginous to ferruginous-red, with a few 

 scattered brown or black scales ; a more or less distinct outwardly oblique antemedial 

 brown or black speckled Hne, and a postmedial duplex line, both lines sometimes 

 more thickly and darker speckled at posterior end ; an indistinct blackish dot in the 

 cell and one at its end : hindwing paler, somewhat whitish at the base. Palpi at the 

 base, pectus, and legs beneath white ; abdomen palest at the sides. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



Larva similar to that of Garea varipes. 



Genus BR AD A. 



Brada, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 1665 (1858). 

 Phanaca, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 856 (1865). 



Forewing elongated, somewhat fusiform ; costal and subcostal veins wide apart ; 

 first subcostal emitted beyond one-third before end of the cell, second at one-eighth, 

 bifid, fourth from end of the cell and joining third for a short distance, fifth from 

 below its junction with the third ; ceU narrow, disposed towards middle of the wing; 

 discocellular concave, upper radial emitted from above base of fourth subcostal, 

 lower radial from lower end of discocellular ; middle median from close to end of 



