486 ARCTIADJE. 



ventral surface ; usually with sublateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing white suffused with pink, and sometimes tinged with 

 brown; the costa with five black spots with scarlet streaks between 

 them ; basal black points on costa and below cell usually present ; 

 a subbasal scarlet point below the cell : an antemedial black point 

 below vein 1 usually present ; two discoidal black points ; sub- 

 terminal and terminal series of black points with scarlet spots 

 between them, and sometimes some scarlet spots before the subter- 

 minal points developed into streaks towards costa and inner margin. 

 Hind wing white, the costal area tinged with pink ; a large 

 irregular apical black patch with pink spot on it before apex, 

 continued as a band to submedian fold or vein 1 , developed into a 

 hamate patch at middle ; a discoidal band sometimes present, the 

 black from ai)ical patch running along subcostal nervure to middle 

 and up vein 2 almost to cell. Underside of fore wing and costal 

 area of hind wing deep crimson. 



Ab. 1. stretchi. Fore wing with antemedial and medial series of 

 black spots ; four black spots from costa to lower angle of cell, and 

 a postmedial series excurved from below costa to vein 3, then 

 incurved ; hind wing tinged with pink to median nervure. 

 . Hah. Antigua (Gregory), 1 (5", 1 $; St. Thomas, 'Challenger' 

 Coll., 1 2 ; St. Kitts {Marlcliam), 2 2 ; Nevis, 1 $ ; St. Lucia 

 (Eliott), 2 2 ; Dominica {Ellott), 2 $ ; St. Vincent (If. H. Smith), 

 3 2 ; Barbados {Frampion), 1 c? , 2 $ ; Trinidad (Broadway), 1 2 ) 

 Mexico, Mazatlan, 1 <5 , 1 $ ? Jalapa (Hoege, Trujillo), 3 d' , 2 $ , 

 Presidio (Forrer), 2 cS , Milpas (Ferrer), 1 ,5 , 1 $ , Tepic (Bicliard- 

 son), 2 2 , Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 2 2 , Durango (Becker), 1 2 » 

 Jalisco (Schumann, Richardson), 2 cJ , 1 $ , Misantla (TrvjiUo), 1 $ , 

 Cuernavaco (Godman), 2 (S , Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), 1 (j' , 1 $ , 

 Orizaba (Godman), 1 c? , 1 $ , Tabisco (H. H. Smith), 2 2 , Puebla 

 (Richardson), 1 J , 2 5 , Yucatan (Gaumer), 1 (S ; Honduras (Blan- 

 caneaux), 1 c? , 1 $ , t}pe stretchi ; Guatemala (Chamjnon), 6 S -,6 2 , 

 type 2^ura; I^ickragvk (Richardson, Belt), 1 c? , 1 $; Costa Rica 

 (Rogers, Underwood), 2 c^" , 6 $ ; Panama (Champion), 4 d" , 1 $, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll.; Venezuela, 1 $; Ecuador, Chiguinda, 1 (S , 



1 2 'i Bolivia, Cocha-bamba, 2 2 '■> Beazil, L. Amazon, Chaves 

 (Austen), 1 (^ , Pernambuco (Ridley), 2 c? , 3 5 1 Theresopolis 

 (Michaelis), 1 S , Bio Janeiro, 6 d" , 5 $ , Sao Paulo (Jones), 2 S ; 

 Peru, Callao ( J". J^. WaVter^, 3cT; Galapagos Is. (Darivin, CooJcson), 



2 c? ; Marquesas Is. (J. J. Walker), 1 ^ . Exp. 38-46 millim. 



2091. Utetheisa bella. 



.Tinea hella, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 534 (1758); Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. i. 

 pi. 24. f. 3 ; Stretch. Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 56, pi. 2. f. 15 ; Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 135 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 346. 



Leiopeia hella, var. intermedia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 361. 



Beiopeia ornatrix, var. hyhrida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 361. 



Utetheisa hella, var. terminali^, Neum. & Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. i, 

 p. 160. 



Head and thorax white ; 3rd joint of palpi, rings on antennae, and 



