Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam Author Swezey, O. H. Experiment Station Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Honolulu text 1946 1942-12-20 Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189 Honolulu, Hawaii Insects of Guam II 163 185 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5165313 058b438a-ffe3-452b-a286-9267419b3014 5165313 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.