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Mr. F. Laini" on 



P(iuroccji/i(i/u payJIoptera, Crawf. 



This widely distributed species has not hitherto bccMi 

 recorded from Fiji, thonjih its variety set if era lias, (ireen- 

 Mood has recently taken the type-species plentifully on 

 Ficus in the mountains of Lautoka. 



Leptynoptera didactyla, sp. u. (Fig. 1.) 



General colour canary-yellow ; black fascia at the tips of 

 segment 4 and tip of the antennse and midway between, 

 remainder of the antenuffi pale ; narrow, sordid white bauds 

 forming a U on eitlier side of the median suture of the 

 vertex and another on the lateral maririn ; two white lateral 



Fi-. 1. 



Leptynuptera didactyla- 



A, head j B, $ genitalia ; C, S genitalia; D, E, front and hind vrings ; 

 F, first two segments of antenna. 



spots on the pronotum, two white, narrow, parallel-curved 

 bands on either side of the doisuhuu, ending befoie they 

 reach the middle; niesonotum with tliree par;illel, straight, 

 narrow, median streaks, a curved one medio-laterally, and 

 another marginally, all vague or obsolete anteriorly ; wings 

 hyaline with two dark brown fascia confluent posteriorly in 

 the anterior basal cell ; abdomen with most of the segments 

 bordered with dark brown. 



Head not quite so broad as the thorax, vertex with a fovea 

 on either side of the median suture, broad anterioi'ly, 

 narrowing backwards to end level with the lateral ocelli, 



