GENUS. DEIOPEIA, _Steph._ Phalæna (Noctua), _Drury_.
DEIOPEIA ASTREA. Alis fulvis; anticis fasciis septem albidis
nigro-punctatis, posticis fulvis nigro-punctatis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 7
lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Noctua) Astrea, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Oliv. Enc. Méth._
8. 261. (Noctua A.)
Phalæna (Bomb.) Pylotis? _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 479. _Gmel. Linn. S.
N._ 2440. 575.
Phal. Geometra cribrata, _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2482. 751.
HABITAT: The Gold Coast, Africa.
_Upper Side._ Head deep yellow. Antennæ filiform, dark brown. Neck and
thorax yellow, with two small black spots on the former, and four on the
latter. Abdomen yellow. Wings deep yellow; the anterior being nearly
orange-coloured, and having several rows of small black spots crossing
them from the anterior to the posterior edges, most of which are very
irregular and uneven; the two last next the external edges being the
least so. The number of spots on each of these wings is forty. Posterior
wings with black spots, but much larger than those on the anterior,
except three, which run along the external edges; the whole number being
eleven.
{14}_Under Side._ Palpi yellow, tipped with black. Tongue spiral. Legs,
breast, and abdomen yellow, the last spotted with black. Wings deep
yellow. The anterior spotted with forty black spots, larger and stronger
than on the upper side. Posterior wings also spotted as on the upper
side. Edges of all the wings entire.