DEIOPIA. 55 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male with no fold or glandular 

 tuft on inner margin. 



1279. Deiopia pulchella, Linn. Syst. Nat. l.ii, 884 ; Kirby, Eur. Butt. 



$ Moths, p. 102, pi. 22, figs. 12, 12 a (larva) ; C. 8? S. no. 739. 

 Phalaena lotrix, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 109, fig. E j C. fy S. 



no. 738. 

 Deiopeia thyter, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 361; C. $ 8. 



no. 740. 

 Noctua pulchra, Esp. Schmett. Eur. vi, p. 570. 

 Deiopeia antennata, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 215. 



Head and thorax yellow, the collar and tegulse each with two 

 black spots, pro-, meso-, and metathorax with one each ; the third 

 joint of palpi black ; abdomen white. Pore wing white, with five 



Fig. 28. — Deiopia pulchella, $. \. 



interrupted scarlet bands with series of black spots between them ; 

 a marginal series of black spots. Hind wing semi-diaphanous 

 white ; some specimens with black marks on the discocellulars ; a 

 very irregular black submarginal band, broad at apical area and 

 between veins 1 b and 3. 



The form lotrix has the third joint of the palpi yellow, and the 

 black spots on thorax reduced ; thyter has the black spots on fore 

 wing also reduced to minute specks. The Malayan and Australian 

 form antennata has the antennae of male serrate, sometimes almost 

 forming pectinations ; it occurs from the Nicobars and Philippines 

 eastward. 



Larva dark grey, with a dorsal white band and subdorsal series 

 of red spots ; head yellow. 



Hab. Europe; Africa; throughout India and Ceylon; Philip- 

 pines ; Malay Archipelago ; New Guinea ; Australia and the 

 Pacific groups. Exp., $ 40-46, $ 45 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male with a fold and glandular 

 tuft on inner margin. 



1280. Deiopia venusta, Hubn. Samml. exot. Schmett. p. 29, no. 261, 

 figs. 521, 522. 

 Deiopeia cruentata, Butl. III. Het. v, p. 38, pi. 86, fig. 10 ; C. fy S. 



no. 737. 



Differs from pulchella in the palpi being black with a yellow 

 band ; the head black, with a white spot on vertex ; the black spots 

 of the thorax larger. Eore wing with the ground-colour black 



