Plate XXIV. fig. 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Lithosiidæ.
GENUS. DEIOPEIA, _Stephens_. Euchelia, _Boisduval_. Eyprepia p. _Ochs_.
DEIOPEIA ORNATRIX. Alis convolutis albidis, anticarum margine rubro
atropunctato, posticis albo nigroque variis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9
lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Noctua) ornatrix, _Linn. S. N._ 2. 839. _No._ 110.
Bombyx ornatrix, _Fab. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 480. _No._ 225. _Gmel.
Linn. S. N._ 2444. 110. _Oliv. Enc. Méth._ 5. 100. _No._ 258.
HABITAT: Antigua (_Drury_). America (_Linn. Fabr._).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black, filiform. Head with a black frontal spot;
tongue spiral. Thorax flesh-coloured, with small black spots. Anterior
wings fine flesh-coloured; the anterior edges being bordered with
scarlet, except four small white places, in each of which is a small
black spot; near the base is a red cordate spot, with a small black one
above it; near the external margin is a row of small black spots; above
this is a row of red ones, nearly joining together, and nearly united to
the red border at the anterior edge, and above this is another row of
black ones. Posterior wings clear white, their external edges with large
angular spots of black, one of them running to the anterior edge.
_Under Side._ Anterior wings fine deep scarlet, but next the shoulders
white, as is the cilia, where, joining to it, is a row of very small
black spots; a little above this is a black irregular line, running from
the anterior edge to the lower angle; above this line is another,
shorter, reaching half way across the wings. Posterior wings clear white,
spotted with the same black angular spots, as on the upper side; the
anterior edges being of the same scarlet colour as the superior wings.