DEIOPEIA. 251 



1. A. radians Walk. C. B. M. 632. 



female. Dark brown. Head clothed above with luteous hairs. 

 Proboscis testaceous. Antennae black. Thorax in front luteous 

 .with two brown stripes ; middle part with two luteous stripes. 

 Abdomen above testaceous towards the base and with two luteous 

 stripes. Fore wings with testaceous borders, excepting the apical 

 third part of the costal margin ; a discal testaceous streak, extend- 

 ing from the base along one-fourth of the length of the wing, forked 

 at its tip. Hind wings red towards the base ; the outline of the 

 red part very angular. Fore femora with a luteous spot on each. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Georgia. 



WALKER. 



DEIOPEIA CUKT. Eyprepia Ochs. Euchelia Boisd. % 



Palpi elongate, above recurved subsquamous ; first article stout, 

 second long ; third short, ovate. Maxillas much longer than the 

 head. Antennas simple in both sexes, rather short, those of the 

 male subpilose below. Primaries oblong, subelliptic, truncated ; 

 secondaries subdiaphanous, strongly plicate. Legs moderate ; 

 tibiae very short, hind tibise with four spurs at the apex. 



1. D. bella Linn. Figured in Cram. Pop. Exot. II, 20, 109. Drury I, pi. 



24. Nat. Lib. vol. XXXVII, pi. 24. 



Primaries fine yellow, traversed with several irregular white 

 bands, with a series of black dots in each and a regular row of 

 black dots on the outer margin ; fringe pure white. Secondaries 

 scarlet, irregularly margined with black behind ; fringe white, 

 thorax nearly white, spotted with black ; abdomen whitish ; an- 

 tennas black, naked, setaceous. 



Expands from an inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters. 



United States. 



HARRIS. 



2. D. aurea Fitch. 



Fore wings bright marigold yellow, with four bands of round 

 pale sulphur-yellow spots upon a brilliant steel blue ground, the 

 hindmost band almost upon the apex, its outer half abruptly 

 widened and slightly united with the third band, which is the 

 broadest and towards its outer end is abruptly narrowed and 



