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marginal band, narro\,ly bordered with white. The fringes of 

 all the wings are white. The thorax and abdomen are whitish, 

 the former spotted with black, and the antennae are black. 



UTETHEISA VENUSTA. 



Tinea belJa^ Cramer (nee Linn.), Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 109, figs. 



CD (1777). 

 Etiprepia venusta, Dalman, Anal. Ent. p. 28 (1823). 

 Deiopeia speciosa, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 



568, no. 5 (1854). 

 Utetheisa speciosa^ Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Amer. p. 57, pi. 2, 



fig. 16 (1872). 

 This Moth is noteworthy as showing another stage in in- 

 tensity of colour. It is an inhabitant of the West Indies and 

 the Atlantic States of North America, and is cf about the 

 same size as U. hella. The yellow on the fore-wings of the 

 latter is, in this species, replaced by red, and the thorax is also 

 of that colour. 



GENUS HIPOCRITA. 



Callimorpha (partwi), Latreille, Gen. Crust. Ins. iv. p. 220 



(1809); Cuvier, Regne Anim. iii. p. 570 (1817); 



Stephens, 111. Brit. Ins. Haust. ii. p. 89 (1829); Curtis, 



Brit. Ent. xi. pi. 499 (1834). 

 Hipocrita^ Hiibner, Tentamen, p. i (18 10?). 

 Tyri'a, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 166 (1822?). 

 Eiichelia, Boisduval, Ind. Meth. p. 39 (1829); id. Gen. Ind. 



Meth. p. 56 (1840). 



The only British species of this genus has short and simple 

 antennae, short and oval fore-wings, very narrow at the base, 

 and very broad, rounded' hind-wings. The abdomen is 

 moderately slender, and hardly longer than the hind-wings. 

 It is remarkable for i^. strongly-contrasted colours, in which it 



