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Cargados Carajos. — Abundant in all stages at the end of August, the larviB on 

 Tournefortia argentea. The twenty-three examples in the present collection repi'esent a 

 flavescent form in which the usually red markings are of a pale yellow, probably 

 a variation directly correlated with existence on a sandbanlc. 



Coetivy. — Of fourteen specimens, ten have the usual red markings, but in four 

 examples these spots are distinctly yellow as in the Cargados form. 



Poivre. — Eleven examples, of which ten have the spots of a pale orange colour, 

 similar to those of Cargados, and only one has these markings red, and even in this 

 case the red is of a very dull shade. 



D'Arros. — Three specimens from St. Joseph Island and thirteen from D'Arros. Of 

 these only one from D'Arros has the typical red markings, and even in this case the 

 red colour is very dull ; in all the others the fore-wing spots are of a pale orange 

 colour. 



He Desroches. — Larvae were found on Tournefortia argentea, but the moth was not 

 common. 



Eagle Island.— Ten specimens, of which only two have the typical red markings on 

 the fore wing, and even in their cases the red colour is very dull. The other eight 

 have these markings of a pale orange colour, similar to that seen in examples from 

 Cargados. 



Seychelles. — Thirteen specimens, all collected in La Digue during November 1905. 

 All have typical red markings. 



DistriJjution. — Seychelles (Praslin) ; Coetivy ; Amirante Islands (Eagle, D'Arros, 

 St. Joseph, Desroches, and Poivre) ; Cargados Carajos ; Chagos Islands ; Cocos-Keeling ; 

 Christmas Isd. ; Ceylon; Singapore; Formosa; Loo-Choo Is. ; New Guinea; North 

 Australia ; Solomon Is. ; Gilbert Is. ; Marshall Is. ; Eilice Is. It seems to be almost 

 everywhere an insular form. 



3. XJtetheisa pulchella, Linn. 



Tinea pulchelia, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) p. 534'. 



Euchelia pulchella, Boisd., Faun. Mad. Maur. p. 85. 



Deiopeia piilchella, Guenee, Maill. Reuu., L^p. p. 24. 



Vtetheisa pulchella (partim), Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 159; Hampson, Moths Ind. ii. p. 55 (fig.) ; 



? Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1894, p. 430 ; ? Holland, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1895, p. 270 



(Mahe) ; Hampson, Cat. Phal. iii. p. 483 *. 

 Utetheisa pulchella, Hampson, A. M. N. H. (7) xix. (1907) p. 240. 



Seychelles. — Eight specimens ; of these, four were taken in St. Anne Island on 

 26 October, 1905, and four are from Mr. de Gaye's collection and also from St. Anne 

 Island. 



I assume that Dr. Abbott's specimens recorded by Holland as pulchella from 



* Before I drew attention to the fold and tuft on the hind wing of U. pulclielloides this latter species had always 

 heen confused with pulchella ; honce it is often extremely difficult to ascertain, in the case of many of these 

 earlier records, which species is really intended to be referred to. 



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