UTETHEISA. 485 



P. Essington, 1 <5 , Pt. Darwin, 1 J , 3 $ ; N. S. Wales, Sydney 

 (Raynor), 2 cT , 1 $ ; Gilbert Is. ( Woodford), 2 6 ; Ellice Is. 

 (Matheiv), 3 c^* , 2 $; Marshall Is. (Maihew), 1 (S , 2 $. ^^p. 

 40-4G millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 37 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 242, pi. 69. f. 3. 



With scanty hairs, some finely branched ; dark grey ; dull pur- 

 plish or blackish; often with orange-red transverse segmental bands; 

 hairs black and whitish; dorsal area more or less marked with 

 white ; spiracular line often whitish ; head reddish-ochreous 

 marked wifh black. Eood-plants, Myosotis, grasses, etc. 7-8 & 

 10-5. 



2089. Utetheisa semara. 



Utethesia se7nara, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 307, pi. 7 a. f. 12 (1859) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 346. 



Head and thorax grey-white tinged with yellow; palpi, except 

 at base, antennae, spots on frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, 

 pro- raeso- and metathorax black ; legs striped with black ; 

 abdomen grey-white tinged with fuscous, with sublateral and 

 ventral series of black spots. Fore wing whitish, thickly irrorated 

 with grey-black, leaving a white streak in and bej'^ond end of cell ; 

 a crimson streak below costa ; basal, subbasal, medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal black spots on costa ; a crimson streak in sub- 

 median fold, with subbasal and antemedial black spots above and 

 below it ; a short crimson streak usually present in cell, followed 

 by a short black streak, often with another below it above vein 1 ; 

 two black spots in end of cell and two on discocellulars ; a series of 

 more or less developed crimson streaks in interspaces of terminal 

 area interrupted by a postmedial series of black spots bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 3, and by a subterminal series of short streaks ; 

 two black spots below costa just before apex, and a terminal series. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white ; a rather broad fuscous black terminal 

 band with irregular inner edge. 



Hah. Java {Horsfield), 3 $ type, Arjuno, 8000 ft. (Doherty), 

 1 c? , 2 $ . Uxp. 38-46 millim. 



2090. Utetheisa ornatrix. 



Noctua ornatrix, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 511 (1758) ; Drury, 111. Ex. Eut. i. 



pi. 24. f. 2 ; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 166, C, D, F ; Hiibn. Samml. Ex. 



Schmett. ii. ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 58, pi. 2. f. 18 ; Moschl. 



Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 32, f. 21 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 134; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 345. 

 Deiopeia ornatrix, var. stretchii, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 361 ; 



Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 59, pi. 2. f. 17. 

 Deiopeia pura, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 360. 



Head and thorax white, sometimes tinged with brown ; 3rd joint 

 of palpi, antenna?, and spots on frons, vertex of head, tegulae, 

 patagia, and thorax black ; shoulders with scarlet patches ; pectus 

 spotted with black ; legs striped and banded with black ; abdomen 

 white, sometimes tinged with fuscous towards extremity and on 



