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elongate, posterior broad, subdiaphanous, much folded : body subconic, stout, 

 a little tufted in the male : legs moderate, tibia: very short ; posterior with two 

 pair of spurs at the apex. Larva hairy : pupa folUculated. 



Deiopeia, which was separated as a genus by me at the same 

 time with Eulepia, ditfers considerably from the latter genus, and 

 has evidently much affinity with the Tineidse, and, as in that family, 

 it has four palpi, though the second pair are but rudimentary. Unlike 

 the Lithosia;, all the species, which are very numerous, are known 

 by the beautiful and lively colours with which their wings are 

 adorned: from the genjis just alluded to they also differ by having 

 the palpi three-jointed, &c., and from Eulepia by the terminal joint 

 of those organs being minute, the antennse being simple in both 

 sexes, the maxillae elongated, and in less essential particulars. 



Sp. 1. pulchella. Alls anticis Jlavescentibus, atro sanguineoque punctatis, pos- 

 ticis lacteis nigro marginatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 9 lin.) 



Ph. Ti. pulchella. Linnc. — De. pulchra. Curtis, iv. pL 169. — De. pulchella. 

 Steph. Catal. No. 6049. 



Antennffi and legs dusky : eyes black : head and thorax pale straw-colour, the 

 latter spotted with yellow and black : abdomen milky- white, with the apex 

 luteous, and a row of minute ^lack spots on the sides : anterior wings pale 

 straw-colour, with five irregularly bent rows of quadrate black spots, between 

 which are several larger irregularly shaped sanguineous spots, the fringe pale- 

 yellowj spotted externally with dusky: posterior wings milky- white, with 

 a sinuated black margin, and a dusky spot at the apex of the basal areolet. 

 Both sexes resemble each other. 



Caterpillar bluish-gray, spotted with black and red, with a broad white dorsal 

 stripe; legs dusky: it feeds on the Mousear or Forget-me-not (Myosotis 

 arvensis). 



Of this truly beautiful species I have hitherto seen but four indi- 

 genous examples ; one of which, in Mr. Vigors's cabinet, was taken 

 many years since in Yorkshire ; the second, a fine female, in that of 

 Mr. Dale, found by him hi a stubble field, near Christchurch, Hants, 

 at the end of September, 1818; and a fine pair in my own cabinet, 

 captured by Mr. Brown, in a similar locality, near Brighton, one 

 about the middle of September, the other at the beginning of October, 

 in the same year. 



Genus LXXXIII. — Lithosia, Fabricius. 



Palpi short, irregularly covered with scales, biarticvdate, the basal joint larger, 

 attenuated, curved upwards, second joint minute, nearly rhomboid, or one- 

 third as long as the first, elongate-trigonate ; maxillw longer than the antennae. 



