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INSECTS OF SAMOA, 



Pyrrhoneura Kirkaldy 

 ' 41. Pyrrhoneura saccharicida Kirkaldy 



Pyrrhoneura saccharicida Kirkakly, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association 

 Ent. Bull, I, 9, p. 435, 1906 ; oj). c. Bull. Ill, p. 170, f. 4. 1907. 



Savaii : Safune, three specimens ; Salailua, one specimen, v,1924 (Bryan). 

 Fagamalo, one specimen, ix.l925. 



Upoki : Apia, five specimens, ix.l928 (Swezey and Wilder) ; eleven speci- 

 mens, i., iii., iv., v., vii., viii., xii.1924 (Buxton and Hopkins) ; Aleipata, 

 Lalomanu, two specimens, xi.l924. 



Manua : Tau, ten specimens, ix.l923 (Swezey). 



Tonga : Neiafu, Vavau, one specimen, iii. 1925 (Hopkins), 



Previously found in Fiji. 



^ . 42, Pyrrhoneura samoensis sp. n. Fig. 18. 

 Male : length 2-6 mm. ; tegmen 4 mm. 



Shoulder keel very small ; antennae much longer than head, reaching nearly 

 to apex of head. Genitalia figured. 



Stramineous, slightly fuscous on the abdomen, 

 much powdered waxy secretion over the head and 

 thorax. 



Tegmina fuscous, pale hyaline over base, most of 

 clavus on to fork of Cu, basal half of C cell, a small 

 Text^fig 18 —Pyfrhoneura ^P°^ about the position of stigma and another at apex 

 samoensis Muir, sp. n., of Ms 3, veins reddish, darker at cross veins between 

 male genitaHa,lateral view. 3 ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^oyQ^^d. with white waxy 



powder. Wings light fuscous with darker veins. 

 Upolu : Malololelei, four male specimens. 



This species can be distinguished from P. saccharicida by its lighter colour, 

 and by its genitalia, especially the anal segment, 



Swezeyia Kirkaldy 



Swezeyia Kirk., Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Ent. Bull., I. (9), 

 p, 430, males. 1906. 



Phantasmatocera Kirk., t. c. p. 430, 1906, females. 

 Nesojjhantasma Kirk., oj). c. Ill, p. 177. 1907. 



