UTETHEISA. 485 



P. Essington, 1 J , Pt. Durwiu, 1 J , 3 $ ; N. S. Wales, Sydney 

 (Baynor), 2 S , 1 2 ; Gilbert Is. ( IVoodford), 2 d" ; Ellice Is. 

 (Matheiv), 3 cj , 2 ? ; Marshall Is. (Ma'thew), 1 c? , 2 $ . ^.x^j. 

 40-40 niillim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. ^7 ; Barrett, Lej). Brit. ii. p. 242, pi. CO. f. o. 



With scanty hairs, some tinely branched ; dark grey ; dull pur- 

 plish or blackish; often with orange-red transverse segmental bands; 

 hairs black and whitish; dorsal area more or less marked with 

 white ; spiraeular line often whitish ; head reddish-ochreous 

 marked wiMi black. Food-plants, Myosotis, grasses, etc. 7-8 & 

 10-5. 



2089. Utetheisa semara. 



Utethesia semara, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 307, pi. 7 a. f. 12 (18.59) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Ilet. p. 346. 



Head and thorax grey-white tinged with yellow ; palpi, except 

 at base, antennae, spots on frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, 

 pro- meso- and metathorax black ; legs striped with black ; 

 abdomen grey-white tinged with fuscous, with sublateral and 

 ventral series of black spots. Fore wing whitish, thickly irrorated 

 with grey-black, letiviug a white streak in and beyond end of cell ; 

 a crimson streak below costa ; basal, subbasal, medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal black spots on costa ; a crimson streak in sub- 

 median fold, with subbasal and antemedial black spots above and 

 below it : a short crimson streak usually present in cell, followed 

 by a short bUick streak, often with another below it above vein 1 ; 

 two black spots in end of cell and two on discocellulars ; a series of 

 more or less developed crimson streaks in interspaces of terminal 

 area interrupted by a postmedial series of black spots bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 3, and by a subterminal series of short streaks ; 

 two black spots below costa just before apex, and a terminal series. 

 Hind wing semiliyaline white ; a rather broad fuscous black terminal 

 band with irregular inner edge. 



Hah. Java {Borsjield), 3 $ type, Arjuno, SOOO ft. {Doheriy), 

 1 cT , 2 $ . i:.vp. 38-46 millim. 



2090. Utetheisa ornatrix. 



Noctua ornafrix, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 511 (1738) ; Drurv, III. Ex. Eut. i. 



pi. 24. f. 2; Cnim. Tap. Exot. ii. pi. 166, C, D, F ; ll'iibn. Sainml. Ex. 



Sdimett. ii. ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. K Am. p. 58, pi. 2. f. 18; Mosehl. 



Abh. Sonck. Ges. xiv. p. 32, f. 21 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 134; Kirby, Cut. Het. p. 345. 

 Deiopeia oriiatriv, var. stretchii, Biitl. Trans. Eut. See. 1877, p. 361 ; 



Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 5U, pi. 2. f. 17. 

 Lciopcia inirn, Butl. Trans. Ent. iSoc. 1877, p. 360. 



Head and Lliora.x wliite, sometimes tinged with brown ; 3rd joint 

 of palpi, antenn-.e, and spots on frons, vertex of head, tegula\ 

 patagia, and tliorax black ; shoulders with scarlet ])atches ; jiectus 

 spotted with black ; legs sliiped and banded w itli black ; abdomen 

 white, sometimes tinged with fuscous towards extremity and on 



