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Genus TATARGINA. 

 Tatargina, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 366. 



Type, T. picta, Wlk. 



Range. S. China ; Burma. 



Palpi rather short and porrect. Antennae simple in female. 

 Mid and hind tibiaB with minute terminal pairs of spurs. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4 and 5 on a short 

 stalk ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind \ving with 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from close to lower angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



1278. Tatargina picta, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 263 ; C. $ S. no. 750. 



Tatargina forniosa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 306, pi. viii, 

 fig. 17. 



$ . Head and thorax scarlet ; collar with two whitish patches, 

 with a black spot centred with grey on each ; tegulae, meso- and 

 metathorax with similar patches ; abdomen yellow, red at base, 



Fig. 27. Tatargina picta, 



with dorsal and lateral series of black spots and black ventral bands. 

 Fore wing grey, crossed by six scarlet bands, each on a white 

 ground edged by black ; the veins white, outlined with black ; cilia 

 scarlet. Hind wing crimson, with four black spots on the costa 

 near the apex, and sometimes other subapical and discal spots. 



In the variety formosa the crimson and white black-edged bands 

 of the fore wing are much narrower than m picta. 



Hab. S. China ; Moulmein ; Prome. Evp. 54-58 millim. 



Genus DEIOPIA. 



Deiopeia, Stcph. Ill Brit. Ent., Haust. ii, p. 92 (1829). 

 Utetheisa, Hicbn. Verz. p. 168 (1818), gen. non descr. 



Type, D. pulchella, Linn. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi porrect, extending beyond the frons. Antennas ciliated. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, the outer margin short and somewhat 

 erect ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4 and 5 from the angle ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 7 and 10 from a short areole. Hind wing 

 with vein 5 from above angle of cell : 6 and 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 from middle of cell. 



