Utetheisa pulchelloides subspecies umata Jordan

Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 163-185 : 164-165

2. Utetheisa pulchelloides subspecies umata Jordan .

Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. VII, 19: 239, 1907.

Utetheisa pulchelloides umata Jordan, Nov. Zool. 41: 281, 1939.

Umatac, March 28, Bryan ; Tarague , May 17, Swezey, Usinger , reared from numerous caterpillars on Messerschmidia argentea .

This pretty red-spotted moth is widely distributed from the Seychelles and Ceylon to Singapore and Formosa, Gilbert , Marshall , Ellice and Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Queensland , Samoa, Tuamotus , and Wake Island. Jordan has given subspecific names to the forms occuring in the different groups of islands. The differences are very slight. The form umata was described from four male.and two female specimens from Guam, October 1894 and April 1895, in the Rothschild collection_

The pupa is 13 mm., formed in a slight webbing in a crumpled leaf or secluded place; very dark brown, nearly black. Apex very blunt, cremaster with a few slender bristles.