12 ^ ' ■ - / INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Text-fig. 1. — Ornithoica piisilla (Schiner), male, from Halcyon jiiliae, New Hebrides ; a, hind 

 border of posterior trochanter ; b, apex of posterior tibia, showing spur. 



1923. Ornithoica confluens (Say), Aldrich, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 

 Vol. XI, p. 79 (partim). 



Previous records. — Recorded by Schiner from Halcyon veneratum in Tahiti. 

 Speiser (1904) records under this name a specimen from Samoa without indi- 

 cation of host, and other specimens from Pitta vigorsi from Christmas Island.* 



.V * I.e. the island of that name near Java. — P. A. Buxton. 



