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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



whitish irrorated dark brownish-grey ; markings dark brownish-grey, some- 

 what roughened, with a few blackish scales posteriorly ; an oblique blotch from 

 dorsum at |, an angulated median fascia, a spot on costa at •§, one on tornus, 

 and a spot in disc towards apex confluent with an apical spot : cilia whitish 

 irrorated grey, an antemedian line of blackish scales. Hindwings light grey ; 

 cilia whitish-grey. 



Upolu, Apia, March ; 1 ex. 



122. Decadarchis perfumata, n. sp. 



(^11 mm. Head dark fuscous. Palpi rough-haired, ascending, dark 

 fuscous. Thorax grey. Forewings light brownish-grey sprinkled darker ; 

 slight very oblique dark fuscous marks from costa at ^ and middle ; a very 

 oblique blackish-grey streak from costa at §, edged whitish posteriorly, pointing 

 to a round blackish apical spot : cilia pale grey, about apex whitish at tips, 

 above apex a blackish-grey basal shade. Hindwings grey, darker posteriorly ; 

 cilia light grey. 



Tutuila, Pago Pago, December ; 1 ex. 



123. Decadarchis eriophysa, n. sp. 



13 mm. Head whitish, $ sometimes tinged fuscous. Palpi white, 

 in $ dark grey externally beneath apex of second joint, and on terminal joint 

 except base and apex, with long projecting white hairscales beneath throughout ; 

 in $ very long, obliquely ascending, thickened with scales and towards apex 

 above expanded with rough brush of scales, more or less infuscated externally, 

 furnished internally with a dense mass of long white woolly hairs longer than 

 palpi terminating in a small blackish-grey spot. Thorax whitish variably 

 spotted fuscous anteriorly. Forewings ochreous-white, more silvery-white 

 towards costa, variably and irregularly marbled on dorsal § with dark fuscous 

 irroration especially towards apex, a similar undefined fasciate streak running 

 from costa about | to tornus ; an oblique mark of dark fuscous irroration on 

 costa beyond middle, whence a yellow-ochreous streak runs beneath costa to 

 meet apex of a very oblique fine dark fuscous line from costa at f, separated 

 by a white streak from a dark ochreous-fuscous streak along apical part of costa ; 

 a blackish apical dot : cilia white, in $ sprinkled black basally on termen, a 

 greyish postmedian shade, at apex a brownish bar with short dark fuscous post- 

 median and black apical lines. Hindwings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey ; 



