NEMEOPHILA FIGURATA. Alis anticis nigris, fasciâ longitudinali duabus
alteris convergentibus connexâ, albis, posticis sanguineis margine
maculâque externâ nigris. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Bombyx) figurata, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Pal. Bauv. Ins.
d'Afr. et d'Amer. Lep. pl._ 24. _f._ 4. [female]. (Alis posticis nigris
puncto rufo.)
HABITAT: Virginia.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ dark brown and pectinated. Thorax cream-coloured
and black. Abdomen black, the sides red. Anterior wings black; having a
cream-coloured line running from the shoulders, {24}parallel to and at a
small distance from the posterior edge, towards the lower corner;
stopping at about one-third from the external edge, from whence near the
end of this line arises two others, which run almost to the anterior
edges. Posterior wings red in the middle; surrounded, except on the
abdominal edges, by a broad black margin.
_Under Side._ Palpi hairy and black. Breast, legs, and abdomen black.
Wings as on the other side; but the colours are not so bright and
distinct. Margins of the wings entire.