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Xenochroa
biviata
Hampson
Carea biviata Hampson, 1905, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 16: 595.
Carea biviata Hampson; Holloway, 1976: 25.
Xenochroa biviata Hampson; Kobes, 1997: 121.
Diagnosis. The forewings are a mixture of rich orange and brown, suffused
greyish in places (e.g. towards the forewing apex), and crossed by two oblique,
fine, darker fasciae. The forewing apex is slightly falcate.
Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.
Habitat preference. The species is infrequent in lowland forest, including
heath forest, secondary forest and plantations (Chey, 1994), and has also been
recorded as high as 1200m on G. Kinabalu.
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