UTIiTHEISA. 483 



a crimson spot beyond it at origin of vein 3, aad black spots above 

 veins 3, 4, and (5, followed by two curved series of irregular marks 

 conjoined into blotches ; three black streaks below costa towards 

 apex ; a crimson subapical spot and a series of black spots on 

 termen and cilia. Hind wing white, with terminal black band 

 rather broad at apex, emitting a short streak above vein 5 and 

 narrowing to a point at tornus. 



Hah. NicoBARs, 1 S type. Exp, 36 millim. 



B. Antennre of male ciliated or minutely serrate. 

 a. Hind wing white. 



a^. Pore wing not suffused with pink or fuscous pidchella. 



h^. Fore wing suffused with fuscous semara. 



c^. Fore wing suffused with pink ornatrix. 



h. Hind wing pink hella. 



e. Hind wing fuscous brown galapagensls. 



2088. Utetheisa pulchella. 



Tinea pulchella, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 534 (1758) ; Sulz. Gesch. lus. p. 162, 



pi. 23. f 11 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 93 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. 



p. 67, pi. 104. f. 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 55 ; Staud. Oat. p. 56 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 346. 

 Noctua pulchra, Den. & Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 68 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. 



iv. p. 570, pi. 164. ff. 3-5; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 23, pi. 42. f. 4; 



Curt. Brit. Eut. v. pi. 169. 

 Geometm lotrix, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 109, E, F (1779). 

 ? Dsiopeia lepida, Eambur, Oat. Lep. And. ii. p. 226 (1866) ; Kirby, Oat. 



Het. p. 346. 

 Deiopeia pulchella, var. Candida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 361. 

 Deiopeia thyter, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 361 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 346. 



Head and thorax yellowish white ; 2nd joint of palpi, vertex of 

 head, tegulas, patagia, and thorax with orange spots ; 3rd joint of 

 palpi, antennae, and spots on tegulae, patagia, and pro- meso- 



and metathorax black ; pectus 

 spotted with black ; legs 

 ®^*''^;»^^X yi^^^^^ } ^^^^^^^<^ ^\^ black; abdomen 

 *'&^'^^5^^^^ ' ^—^ ^ / white, with sublateral series of 



black points. Fore wing j-el- 



^//k 1 ^^T^^^ / lowish white ; a black point at 



%M i \\^^^^^ 1(4 ^^®® ^^ ^^^^^ ' ^ curved sub- 



\\^_\X j^ basal series of three black spots 



Yxgr2\n.-T)eiopeia pulchella, S- \- followed by scarlet spots on 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) costa and above vein 1 ; a 



curved antemedial series of 

 five black spots followed by scarlet spots on costa, below cell, and 

 above vein 1 ; a medial series of seven black points, the one in cell 

 displaced outwards, and the pairs below costa and cell often con- 

 joined, and followed by scarlet spots on costa and above veins 2 and 

 1, then by another series of seven black spots, two being displaced 

 outwards on discocellulars, incurved below cell, followed by scarlet 

 spots on costa and above veins 3 and 1, then by black spots above 



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