UTETHEISA. 



483 



a crimson spot beyond it at origin of vein 3, and black spots above 

 veins 3, 4, and 0, Followed by two curved series of irregular marks 

 conjoined into blotches ; three black streaks below costa towards 

 apex ; a crimson subapical spot and a series of black spots on 

 terincn and cilia. Hind wing white, with terminal black band 

 rather broad at apex, emitting a short streak above vein 5 and 

 narrowing to a point at tornus. 



Hah. Nicouvus, 1 S type. Exp. 30 millim. 



B. Antennre of male ciliated or minutely serrate. 

 a. Hind wing white. 



a'. Fore wing not suffused with pink or fuscous piUchella. 



h^. Fore wing su (fused with fuseou-s senvMra. 



<.•'. Fore wing suffused with pink ornatrix. 



h. Hind wing pink bella. 



c. Hind wing fuscous brown r/cdapagensis. 



2088. Utetheisa pulchella. 



Ti/iea pulche'la, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 534 (1758) ; Sulz. Gesch. Ins. p. li)2, 



pi. 23. f U ; Staph, ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 93 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. 



p. 67, pi. 104. f. 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 55 ; Stand. Cat. p. 56 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 34(i. 

 Noctua pulchra, Den. & Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 68 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. 



iv. p. 570, pi. 164. tf 3-5; Qodt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 23, pi. 42. f. 4; 



Curt. Brit. Ent. v. pi. 169. 

 Geometra, lotrix. Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 109, E, P (1779). 

 ? Diiopeia lepida, Rambur, Cat. Lep. And. ii. p. 22(5 (1866) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 346. 

 Dciopeia pidehcUa, var. Candida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1877, p. 361. 

 Deiopeia thyter, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1377, p. 361 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 346. 



Head and thorax yellowish white ; 2ud joint of palpi, vertex of 

 head, tegulaj, patagia, and thorax with orange spots ; 3rd joint of 

 palpi, antennse, and spots on tegulae, patagia, and pro- meso- 



and metathorax black ; pectus 



V ^^^^ spotted with black ; legs 



^'sifrar 0\ y^^^^^$ 1 ^^'^^'^^^ '"'ith black; abdomen 



'"Jv* v*^^^^ ^^^^^^ / white, with sublateral series of 



^i^p^^'^W >==^— ^ / black points. Fore wing j-el- 



W-yK'//'/j a ^^^r^^^ / lowish white ; a black point at 



^^v/i 9 vO^^^ IfCi ^^^^ "* ^****'^ ' '^ curved sub- 



n\Jv'^ r^ l)asal series of three black spots 



Fig. 2\t-Deiopeia pulchella. S. \. followed by scarlet spots on 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) costa and above vein 1 ; a 



curved antemedial series of 

 five black spots followed by scarlet spots on costa, below cell, and 

 above vein 1 ; a medial scries of seven black points, the one in cell 

 displaced outwards, and the pairs below costa and cell often con- 

 joined, and followed by scarlet spots on costa and above veins 2 and 

 1, tlii'u by another .si^ries of seven black spots, two heini>- displaced 

 outwards on discncellulars, incurved below cell, followed by scarlet 

 spots on costa and above veins 3 and 1, then by black spots above 



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