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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



male with ventral portion of abdomen yellow-brown. Genital segment of 

 female sharply deflexed, acutely pointed. 



Tutuila, eleven females and seventeen males, collected by Swezey and 

 Wilder, 22.ix.1923, on " Ficus No. 8 " ; also one male taken by A. F. Judd 

 at Tan, Manua Group, 24.ii.1926, and one male on the Leone Road, Tutuila, 

 19.ii.l924 (Bryan). 



,^ 'i' CARSIDARINAE 



^ ^ ^ - • i ' ; ' 2. Tyora buxtoni sp. n. (Text-fig. 2.) 



Related to T. congrua Walker, but specifically quite distinct and smaller. 

 General colour dark brown, with lighter streaks on dorsum of thorax and 

 the ventral portion of abdomen mostly light brown ; antennae black or brown, 



basal segment lighter ; legs dark ; forewings 

 with broad dark brown band along posterior 

 margin and narrower band along each vein, 

 giving a general dark appearance to forewings ; 

 Text-fig. 2— Tyora buxtoni Crawf., hindwings clear. 



sp. n. Elytron. Body (of male) about 3 mm. long, slender ; 



forewings 4 mm. long ; antennae 2-5 mm. long. 



Head small ; vertex nearly flat, with posterior margin raised a little and 

 posterior ocelli elevated ; front ocellus between bases of antennae, which are 

 somewhat enlarged and give a birostrate appearance to front of head. Antennae 

 slender and several times as long as width of head. Rostrum long and 

 conspicuous. 



Thorax not strongly arched, moderately broad ; legs slender, with con- 

 spicuous spur at base of hind tibiae. Forewings long and slender, tapering to a 

 point at apex, with veins conspicuous ; two pseudo-crossveins as is typical of 

 this genus. 



Upolu, two males, at Lalomanu, Aleipata, 29.iii., xi.l924. 



Tyora appears to be a South Pacific genus, somewhat related to Carsidara 

 and Tenaphalara. The two other known species of this genus are Tyora congrua 

 Walker, and Tyora ornata (Kirkaldy), first described in the genus Nesiope. 

 Other species have been erroneously referred to this genus : T. hibisci Froggatt 

 should be known as Mesohomotoma hibisci (Froggatt) ; T. indica Crawford 



