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ARCTIlN:AEDiacrisia oiceta (Stoll)Phalaena Bombyx niceta Stoll, 1782, in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen, 4: 151, pI. 368: C.Diacrisia niceta Stoll, Strand, 1922, Lepidoptorum Catalogus, 22: 205-206.Hutuna, 3 &" 1 ~.Distribution: Moluccas eastwards to the Solomon Is.All the specimens of this species that have so far been examined from Bougainvilleat the N. W. to Guadalcanal at the S. E. of the Solomon Is. belong to niceta semiroseaButler (1887). Of the Rennell I. material, one male matches the type of niceta semiraseaand the remaining two males and one female have the fore wings pale ochraceousbuff eged distally with light buff and match the type of niceta pallida Rothschild(1916), described from material collected on Vulcan I. The genitalia of both races areidentical.Utetheisa salomonis RothschildUtetheisa pulchel10ides salomonis Rothschild, \9\0, Novit. zoot, 17: \S1.Utetheisa salomonis Rothschild, Jordan, 1939, Novit. zoo!. 41: 277.Hutuna, 1 J, I

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