. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CAEEA. 561 middle; cilia red-brown at base and yellow at tips from apex to vein 4, then white. Hind wing white, the inner area suffused with brow^n ; the underside wholly white. Hah. Assam, Khasis, 1 6 type. Exp. 30 millim. 6962. Carea alhipicta. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 8.) Carea alhipicta, Hrapsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 599 (1905). 5 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with purplish I'ed ; palpi rufous ; pectus and legs whitish, tarsi rufous ringed with white ; abdomen wbite. Fore wing white, the costal, inner, and teroiinal ar
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CAEEA. 561 middle; cilia red-brown at base and yellow at tips from apex to vein 4, then white. Hind wing white, the inner area suffused with brow^n ; the underside wholly white. Hah. Assam, Khasis, 1 6 type. Exp. 30 millim. 6962. Carea alhipicta. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 8.) Carea alhipicta, Hrapsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 599 (1905). 5 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with purplish I'ed ; palpi rufous ; pectus and legs whitish, tarsi rufous ringed with white ; abdomen wbite. Fore wing white, the costal, inner, and teroiinal areas suffused with purple-grey and irrorated with rufous ; some rufous suffusion at base of costa ; the medial and postmedial areas except towards costa and inner margin striated with bright ferruginous ; an ill-defined waved antemedial line, diffused towards costa and somewhat inwardly oblique ; a ferruginous discoidal bar ; a somewhat oblique sinuous white postmedial band, incurved in submedian interspace ; a dark brown subtermiaal line excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a dark brown terminal line expanding into small spots in the interspaces ; cilia ferruginous. Hind wing semi- hyaline white. Underside of fore wing white with the costal area suffused with grey and red-brown. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. Hah. Fiji, 1 $ type. Exp. 32 millim. B. Hind tibite of male with thick fringe of long hair on outer side except at base ; the tibiae, spurs, and tarsi normal. *6963. Carea viridipennis. Carea viridipennis, Druce, A. H. (8) viii. p. 150 (1911). (5 . Head and tegulse sap-green, the thorax sap-green mixed with whitish ; palpi rufous; pectus and legs pale rufous, the mid tibia} brown above towards base ; abdomen pale brown, the basal crest white, the ventral surface white tinged with rufous. Fore. Fig. 213.— Carea viridi2}ennis, cJ. \. wing whitish variegated with sap-green ; a brown patch at base of inner margin; a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to sub- median
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