DEIOPEIA BELLA. 
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middle. Posterior wings yellow, margined exter- 
nally with black ; abdomen likewise yellow, with 
black streaks running across. Legs black, marked 
i with white. 
This, like the former, was brought from Sierra 
i tieone by Mr. Smeathman. 
DEIOPEIA BELLA. 
PLATE XXIV. Fig. 1. 
Phalsena (Tinea) bella, Linn.; Pair.; Cramer, Pap. Exot., 
pi. 109, fig. C. D. — Deiopeia bella, Westwood's Drury, i. 
pi. 24, fig. 3. 
In our volume on British Moths, we figured the 
only native species of this pretty genus which we 
possess, and as the generic characters are there spe- 
cified, they need not be repeated in this place. They 
are insects of rather delicate structure, below the 
middle size, and generally displaying fine tints of 
crimson or yellow with small spots of white. Many 
of them are natives of the New World, but they 
are likewise extensively distributed over the old 
continent. The species here figured is found in 
the neighbourhood of New York and other parts of 
North America. It expands about an inch and 
