58 ZYG.TL,KlDJiL AND BOMnVCID^ 



The specimen from which the figure was drawn, was forwarded to 

 me with other insects from Massachusetts, by F. Sanborn, but its precise 

 locality was not stated. Walker gives the West Indies as the locality 

 from which the type of his species was received. The red-winged form 

 seems indeed to be the one most prevalent among these islands, but I 

 have yet to see anything which is intermediate in color between [/. bella 

 and speciosa. 



3.-UTETHEISA ORNATRIX. (Pi. 2, fig. 18.) 



Noctua ornairix, Linn., Syst. Nat., p. 839. (1767.) 

 Nociua ornatrix , Drury, Exot., vol. i, p. 51, pi. 24, fig. 2. (1770) 

 Bomhyx ornatrix, Fabricius, Syst., Ent. , p. 586. (1775.) 

 PhalcEna ornairix, Cramer, Exot., vol. 2, pp. 107-108, pi. 166, figs. 



CD. F. (1779-) 

 Bo??ibyx ornairix, Fabr. , Sp. Ins., vol. 2, p. 203. (1781.) 

 Bombyx ornatrix, Fabr., Mant. Ins., vol. 2, p. 131. (1787.) 

 Bomhyx orjiatrix, Fabr., Ent. Syst. , vol. 3, p. 479. (1793.) 

 Utelheisa ornatrix, Hiibner, Verz. Schmett, p. 168. (1868.) 

 Ulelheisa orfialrix, Hiibner, Samm. Exot. Schm., vol. 2, Lep. 3, 



Phal. 2, Ver. 4. (i 806-1 824.) 



Deiopeia ornairix, Westw. Ed. Drurv, vol. i, p. 46, pi. 24, fig. 2. 



(1837.) 

 Deiopeia ornatrix, Walker, C. B. M., Lep., pi. 8, p. 567. (1854.) 



Grole, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., vol. 5, p. 234. 



Expanse of wings , 1.70 inches. Length 0/ body, 0.65 inch. 



Habitat. — Texas, Mexico, West Indies. 



(S . $ . — Head, thorax and abdomen as in U. bella, except that the 

 portions colored yellow in U. bella, are verrnillioJi in U. Ornatrix. 



Yx\xa.-^x\Q.% pale flesh color, with minute black dots disposed as follows: 

 one at the base of the median vein, one on the inner margin near the 

 base, four on the costa, a sinuated subterminal band, and an outer series 

 on the outer margin. Between the two terminal bands there is a narrow 

 broken vermillion band, and the costa is narrowly edged with the same 

 color between the black dots. 



Secondaries, ivhite, subhyaline, with marginal band and markings as 

 in U. bella. Costa faintly tinged with pinkish. 



Beneath, primaries deep red, costa yellowish, the black dots on the 



