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DEIOPEIA BELLA.
nine lines: anterior wings fine yellow, traversed with several narrow irregular white bands, with a series of black dots in each, and a regular row of black dots on the outer margin; the fringe pure white. The hinder wings are scarlet, irregularly margined with black behind; the fringe white. The thorax and abdomen are nearly white, the former spotted with black; antennæ of the latter colour.
D. ornatrix.—Superior wings flesh-coloured, the anterior border scarlet with four white spots having a black dot in each, a regular row of black dots not far from the exterior margin, within which are a few scarlet streaks: there are likewise a few scarlet streaks near the base, with one or two black dots: hinder wings white, with a black border behind emitting broad patches internally: thorax spotted. Expansion one inch nine lines.—Phal. ornatrix, Linn.—Bombyx orn. Fabr., Drury, i. pl. 24, fig. 2.
D. astrea.—Whole surface fulvous; anterior wings with seven transverse white bands spotted with black; hinder wings with pretty large scattered black spots; neck with two black spots, thorax with four, abdomen with three rows. Expansion one inch seven lines.—Phal. astrea, Drury, i. pl. 6. fig. 3.—Phal. Geom. cribrata, Gmel.—Gold Coast, Africa.
