DEVA.— AMPHIPYRA. 23 



DEVA, Walker. 

 Deva splendida. (Plate XLVI. fig. 8.) 

 Deva splendida, Bailer, Ann. cf Mar/. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 203 (1878). 



Primaries above greyish Lrowu, speckled here and there with blackj streaked with shining 

 lilac ; central area ferruginous, shading into ochraceous ; external area shot with bright 

 cupreous ; a bisinuated basal litura, a &-shaped marking above the median vein, a discal 

 streak, the outer margin, the inner edge of the outer border at apex, and the outer border of 

 the external angle lilaeiue ; a line from below the cell and an irregular discal line silver^' ; a 

 bright silvery r-shaped marking at the base of the first median branch; reniform spot 

 constricted, feebly outlined in lilacine : secondaries shining brown, with two darker central 

 streaks ; fringe whitish-tipped ; head and collar testaceous, banded with lilac ; thorax darker, 

 also banded with lilac ; abdomen greyish, whitish at base, with a lilac-tipped black and 

 ochraceous dorsal tuft. Under surface not unlike that of Orcesia emarginata, but the primaries 

 and the disk of secondaries darker ; these wings also with a well-marked arched discal stripe : 

 legs greyish ; tarsi blackish, banded with whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Hakodate [Whitely). 



Several species of this genus were placed by Mr. Walker under the Plusiodonta of 

 Guenee, with which some Lepidopterists regard it as synonymous : it differs in the form of 

 the wings and its shorter and more recurved palpi. 



The typical species of Plusiodonta have long straight palpi like Deltoids ; and the 

 introduction of several species of Deva into the genus, combined with the absence of the 

 typical species, has been the cause of an error in naming one of the Japanese species; 

 " Platydia casta, " which resembles a Deltoid, being in reality a typical Plusiodonta. 



AMPHIPYIIID.E. 



AMPHIPYRA, Ochs. 

 Amphipyra erebina. (Plate XLVI. fig. 12.) 

 Amphipyra erebina, Batlcr, Ann. cj- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 287 (1878). 



Allied to ^. 7je?-^«ff, but rather smaller, more sericeous; the primaries with the inner 

 zigzag stripe obscured, the outer stripe tinted with brown and not so regularly dentate-sinuate, 

 the external area greyer, with the markings less distinct ; a blackish lunate subapical patch : 

 secondaries dark grey instead of pale brown ; fringe and edge of margin sordid whitish. Wings 

 below streaked with grey, the discal band darker and more sharply defined ; the discocellular 

 spot of primaries dark brown, ill-defined, that of secondaries black ; a broad submarginal 

 greyish-brown band, dift\ised internally on the primaries. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 



Yokohama (Jonas); Hakodate [Whitely). 



