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as far into the wing ; in some examples tlie border is 

 reduced to two isolated marginal spots. 



249. Deiopeia ornatrix = Noctua ornatrix, Linn. Syst. 



Nat. ii. p. 829. Hab. — Bolivia, Venezuela, 

 Nevis. 

 Var. Stretchii. 

 Utetlieisa — ?, Stretch, Zyg. and Bomb. pi. ii. fig. 17. 

 Ilab. — Honduras. 

 Var. hybrida. 

 Primaries of D. bella, but the yellow belts indistinct, 

 secondaries of typical D. ornatrix, but Avith the ground 

 colour red as in D. bella, and with a Avhite-edged inter- 

 rupted black belt across the discoidal cell. Hab. — United 

 States. 



250. Deiopeia bella = Tinea bella, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 2, 



p. 884. Hab. — United States, E." Florida. 

 Var. intermedia. 

 Primaries with the yellow belts very pale, so that the 

 white borders of the black spots show faintly ; secondaries 

 exactly like D. speciosa. Hab. — United States. 



Mr. Stretch says (Zyg. & Bomb. p. 58), "I have yet 

 to see anything which is intermediate in color between 

 U. bella and speciosa.''^ 



251. Deiopeia speciosa, Wlk. Lep. Het. 2, p. 568. Hab. 



— Jamaica, Haiti. 



252. Deiopeia pulchella = Tinea pulchella, Linn. Syst. 



Nat. 1, 2, p. 884. Hab. — Germany, Spain, 

 Cape, Natal, Ashanti, Turkey, N. India, Nepal, 

 S. India, Ceylon, Australia, Port Essington, 

 Moreton Bay. 

 Var. lotrix, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 20, pi. cix. 



Hab. — Ceylon, Philippines, Keelong Islands, New 

 Guinea, Sydney, ISIoreton Bay. 

 Var. Candida. 



Hab. — Congo, Interior of South Africa, Natal, Cape. 



Primaries with the scarlet spots so pale as to be scarcely 

 visible, but the black spots large and well defined. 



253. Deiopeia thyter, n. sp. Hab. — Turkey, Punjab. 

 General pattern of D. jndchclla, but the black spots of 



