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legs striped with black ; abdomen white in female, blackish above 

 in male, with sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing black f 

 subbasal black spots below costa and cell, followed by quadrate 

 crimson patches on costa and inner margin ; an antemedial black 

 line from costa to median nervure, and spots below the cell and above 

 and below vein 1, the two former displaced outwards and followed by 

 an oblique series of three crimson spots below costa and cell and 

 above vein 1, all these markings being defined by white ; a cjuadrate 

 white patch in end of cell extending to lower angle, with two 

 crimson spots above it on costa, sometimes a slight crimson streak 

 on it, and below it two conjoined crimson spots on median nervure 

 and at lower angle of cell, with a white patch below them, above a 

 crimson spot above vein 1 ; a subterminal series of four irregular 

 crimson spots defined by white, the one below costa further from 

 base, and the one below middle formed by two conjoined spots. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, with terminal black band broad at 

 apex, narrowing to tornus, with irregular inner edge indented at 

 middle. 



Ab. 1. diva. Tegulse and shoulders without crimson spots ; 

 fore wiug with the crimson spots on inner and terminal areas much- 

 reduced ; hind wing with some black sufi'usion in base of cell and 

 on inner area ; the terminal band very broad and extending to 

 discocellulars. 



Hah. Madagascar (Pfeiffer), 2 2 ; Maueitifs, 2 J , 6 $ ; Jo- 

 hanna I. (Bewsher), 1 $. jEo^jj., S 44, $ 54 millim. Type f 

 2 diva in Coll. Mabille ; type in Mus. Copenhagen. 



The localities Sikhim and kSumatra for this species are erroneous. 



2085. Utetheisa cruentata. 



Beiopeia cruentata, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. p. 38, pi. 86. f. 10 (1881); 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 55 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 347. 



Head and thorax white tinged with orange ; antennae black ;. 

 palpi, frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, and pro- meso- and 

 metathorax with black spots ; tegulae at sides and shoulders with 

 crimson spots ; pectus spotted with black ; legs striped with black ; 

 abdomen white, sometimes dorsally tinged with black. Fore wing 

 fuscous black, with crimson spots defined by yellowish and pinkish 

 white ; three subdorsal black spots followed by crimson spots on 

 costa and above vein 1 ; two antemedial black spots below costa, 

 and one above inner margin ; crimson antemedial spots on costa, 

 below cell, and above vein 1, the last with another beyond it ;, 

 a pinkish-white band across end of cell, not extending to lower 

 angle, with a crimson spot above it on costa and one below it ;. 

 postmedial crimson spots on costa, at lower angle of cell, and above 

 vein 1, connected by an irregular whitish band ; a crimson spot 

 below costa before apex, and a subterminal series of spots on an 

 irregular whitish band ; cilia intersected with whitish. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, with black terminal band very broad at costa, 

 narrowing to a point at vein 1, and with very irregular inner edge 



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