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with tufts of long black hairs, the tufts most dense at their base ; some orange- 

 yellow dorsal marks on third, eighth, and last segment, and a slender line between 

 the latter. Pupa reddish, in a lax hairy cocoon. 



" Puselawe. Hills, 3000 feet. On cultivated ground, during S.W. Monsoon," 



Genus UTETHEISA. 



UtetJieisa, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sohmett. p. 168 (1818-25). 

 Deiopeia, Stephens, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 92 (1829). 



Forewing long, narrow; cell long, narrow, extending to two-thirds the wing; 

 first subcostal emitted at one-tenth and second at one-twelfth before end of the cell, 

 second trifid, fifth from end of the cell and anastomosed to third for a short distance 

 above its base ; discocellular bent outward close to upper end and inward in the 

 middle, radial from upper angle ; three upper medians from angles at end of the cell, 

 lower beyond one-third before the end ; submedian extending close to the margin, : 

 hindwing broad; exterior margin oblique and almost angular before the end; cell 

 broad, extending nearly to two-thirds the wing; costal joined to subcostal to one- 

 third from the base, and terminating at the apex ; two subcostal branches from end 

 of the cell ; discocellular bent inward and outward below the middle, radial from the 

 lower angle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before 

 the end ; submedian and internal straight. Body moderately slender ; palpi porrect, 

 laxly squamose beneath, second joint extending to vertex, third joint short, thick ; 

 antennae very finely pectinated ; legs smooth, 



UTETHEISA PTJLCHELLA (Plate 104, Fig. 5,^). 

 Phal. Tinea pulchella, Linnaaus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 884 (1767). 

 Deiopeia pulchella, Stephens, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 93 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii" 



p. 566. 

 Utetheisa pulchella, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 306, pi. 14, fig. 1, la, larva. 

 Utetheisa pulchra, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 168. 

 Phal. Geom. Lutrix, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 109, fig. E (1779). 



Forewing pale ochreous-yellow ; crossed by five nearly equidistant zigzag serial 

 rows of small black spots, which are more or less quadrate, followed by a marginal 

 linear row of similar spots ; between the fourth and fifth row are two pairs of similar 

 spots, and between the transverse rows are some irregular shaped scarlet spots ; 

 hindwing pure white, with a black irregular bordered marginal band and a streak at 

 end of the cell. Thorax and head ochreous-yellow, spotted with black ; abdomen 

 white ; tip of palpi black ; legs black streaked ; antennse black. 



Expanse li%- inch. 



" Colombo. On grass land, A slow flier. "When disturbed flies a short way 

 and settles again in the grass." {Hutchison.) 



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