AXIOP^NIELLA. — UTETHEISA. •'»(»'.• 



spot at base with some whitish beyond it ; subbasal black spots 

 below costa and cell; an oblique antemedial black striga from 

 costa, obliquely-plaJfced spots in and below cell and a spot on inner 

 margin ; a discoidal spot; a postmedial spot on costa, spots above 

 and below vein (5 much nearer termen and spots below vein 2 and 

 on inner margin. Hind wing crimson ; a black discoidal spot ; a 

 terminal black band expanding on apieal area, extending on costa 

 to near middle, narrowing to a point at tornus, its inner edge 

 incurved below vein 2 ; the underside with the costal edge black to 

 near base. 



Hab. Madagascar, Morondava, 1 6 . Exp. 40 millim. 



*2083 c. Axiopaeniella lasti. 



Ai'iopwniella lasti, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 182 (1910), & xviii. pi. 6. 

 f. 32. 



Head and thorax dark brown with a slight cupreous tinge ; mid 

 and hind tibiae with the tufts of hair from base of upperside 

 reddish, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen crimson, 

 the basal segment brown, the extremity black, paired dorsal, lateral, 

 and ventral series of black spots. Fore wing dark brown with a 

 cupreous tinge ; subbasal black spots below costa and cell ; a curved 

 antemedial black mark from costa, spot in cell rather further from 

 base, and spots in submedian fold and on inner margin ; a discoidal 

 spot ; a postmedial spot on costa, spots much nearer the termen above 

 and below vein 6, and spots above and below vein 1. Hind wing 

 crimson, the base brown ; the costal and terminal areas black, 

 broad at apex, narrowing to a point at tornus, the inner edge of 

 the terminal band slightly waved ; a black discoidal spot. 



Hab. Madagascar (Last) in Coll. Kothschild. Exp. 40 millim. 



Page 480. Genus UTETHEISA. insert :— 



& Type. 



Deiopeia, Curt. Brit. Ent. iv. pi. 169 (1827) pulchella. 



Euchelia, Boisd. Eur. Lep. Ind. Meth. p. 59 (1828) non descr... pulchella. 



2084. Utetheisa elata. 



Bombyx elata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 440 (1798) is the correct 

 reference. 



20S4 a. Utetheisa pectinata. (Plate LXVIIL fig. 17.) 



Utetheisa pectinata, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xix. p. 240 (1907). 



cS . Differs from IT. pulchclla only in the male having the 

 antenna? bijjectinate with very short branches and the hind wing 

 having the fold and tuft on inner area. 



Hub. N. Australia, Port Essington, 1 tf type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



