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Rh middle. Posterior wings yellow, margined externally with black; abdomen likewise yellow, with black streaks running across. Legs black, marked with white. This, like the former, was brought from Sierra Leone by Mr. Smeathman.

DEIOPEIA BELLA. PLATE XXIV. Fig. 1.

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 specified, 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