DEVA— AMPHIPTEA. 
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DEVA, Walker. 
Deva splendida. (Plate XLVI. tig. 8.) 
Deva splendida, Butler, Ann. Mar/. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 203 (1878). 
Primaries above greyish brown, speckled here and there with black, streaked with shining 
lilac; central area ferruginous, shading into ochraccous; external area shot with bright 
cupreous ; a bisiuuated basal litura, a &/-shaped marking above the median vein, a discal 
streak, the outer margin, the inner edge of the outer border at apex, and the outer border of 
the external angle lilacine ; a line from below the cell and an irregular discal line silvery ; a 
bright silvery v-shaped marking at the base of the first median branch; reniform spot 
constricted, feebly outlined in lilacine : secondaries shining brown, with two darker central 
streaks ; fringe whitish-tipped ; head and collar testaceous, banded with lilac ; thorax darker, 
also banded with lilac ; abdomen greyish, whitish at base, witli a lilac-tipped black and 
ochraccous dorsal tuft. Under surface not unlike that of Oreesia emarginata, but the primaries 
and the disk of secondaries darker ; these wings also with a well-marked arched discal stripe : 
legs greyish ; tarsi blackish, banded with whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 
Hakodate [Wldtely). 
Several species of this genus were placed by Mr. Walker under the Plusiodoiita of 
Guenee, with which some Lepidopterists regard it as synonymous : it differs in the form of 
the wings and its shorter and more recurved palpi. 
The typical species of Plusiodonta have long straight palpi like Deltoids ; and the 
introduction of several species of Deva into the genus, combined with the absence of the 
typical species, has been the cause of an error in naming one of the Japanese speeies; 
“ Platydia casta, ” Avhich resembles a Deltoid, being in reality a typical Plusiodonta. 
AMPIIIPYEID2E. 
AMPHIPYEA, Ochs. 
Amphipyra erehina. (Plate XLVI. fig. 12.) 
Amphipyra crebina, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 287 (1878). 
Allied to A. perflua, but rather smaller, more sericeous ; the primaries with the inner 
zigzag stripe obscured, the outer stripe tinted with brown and not so regularly dentate-sinuate, 
the external area greyer, with the markings less distinct ; a blackish lunate subapical patcli : 
secondaries dark grey instead of pale brown ; fringe and edge of margin sordid whitish. Wings 
below streaked with grey, the discal band darker and more sharply defined ; the discocellular 
spot of primaries dark brown, ill-defined, that of secondaries black ; a broad sidimarginal 
greyish-brown band, diffused internally on the primaries. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 
Yokohama {.Tonas) ; Hakodate (JF/aVe/y). 
