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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



ferruginous-brownish suffusion : cilia white. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia 

 whitish, suffused grey towards base. 



Upolu, Tuaefa, September (Sivezey and Wilder) ; 1 ex. in Bishop Museum. 



102. Anticrates difflua, n. sp. 



<J$ 14-16 mm. Head light yellowish, anterior edge of collar crimson. 

 Palpi pale yellowish, externally suffused crimson. Thorax yellow, posterior 

 half sometimes light purplish, apex of tegulae crimson. Forewings veins 

 separate, 2 and 3 closely approximated towards base ; yellow ; markings light 

 purplish, suffused crimson on edges, variable in development ; streaks along 

 basal fourth of costa and anterior half of dorsum ; a very irregular curved 

 fascia joining ends of these, narrow irregular fasciae from middle of costa to 

 tornus and from costa before apex to dorsum at | crossing one another, a crimson 

 line along fold throughout sometimes receiving a short line from base of dorsum, 

 bars from above and below middle of first fascia converging to middle of second, 

 some crimson marking between second and third towards costa, but these 

 are sometimes partially and irregularly obsolete : cilia yellow, basal half usually 

 crimson, a crimson tornal bar or patch. Hindwings and cilia light rosy. 



Upolu, Malololelei, 2,000 feet, February, June, December ; 4 ex. Also 

 2 poor specimens from Tutuila in Bishop Museum. Though varying in 

 detail, these are certainly all conspecific. 



Gracilaeiadae * 

 103. Epicephala acrocarpa, n. sp. 



$ 9 mm. Head white. Palpi grey, tip white. Thorax fuscous, a white 

 dorsal stripe. Forewings fuscous speckled darker ; markings white edged 

 dark fuscous suffusion ; a broad dorsal streak from base to beyond tornus, 

 towards tornus almost interrupted by an inwards-oblique indentation of edge 

 and two dark fuscous dots placed obliquely and connected by a little fuscous 

 suffusion, on tornus another dark fuscous dot, apex of streak obliquely bifurcate- 

 prominent before subterminal line ; three oblique white wedge-shaped marks 

 from costa at beyond middle, and §, first somewhat produced towards base 

 by suffusion on costa, second produced in disc almost to touch an oval white 

 spot including a fine longitudinal dark fuscous line lying between third and 



* See note on p. 76. — E. E. Austen. 



