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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



84. Stathmopoda lampryntis, n. sp. 



$ 8 mm. Head golden-yellow, fillet silvery, face white. Palpi white. 

 Thorax golden-yellow. Posterior tibiae whitish, a blackish apical ring. Fore- 

 wings orange-yellow, with brassy-metallic basal patch, and towards posterior 

 half of dorsum and apex suffused brassy-metallic ; costal edge whitish except 

 anteriorly : cilia brassy-whitish, tinged grey towards tornus. Hindwings light 

 grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Upolu, Malololelei, 2,000 feet, June ; 1 ex. 



85. Stathmopoda spilothorax, n. sp. 



$ 11-13 mm. Head orange on crown, forehead violet-grey, face pearly- 

 whitish. Palpi whitish, terminal joint grey anteriorly. Thorax orange, a 

 quadrate antemedian blotch, another postmedian, and blotches on shoulders 

 violet-grey. Forewings widest near base, attenuated, acute ; rather dark 

 violet-grey ; a suffused orange streak along fold from near base to before middle 

 of wing, and another from above apex of this to tornus, beyond apex of first 

 a suffused darker grey dorsal spot : cilia light grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Upolu, Malololelei, 2,000 feet, Apia, 1,000 feet; June, October, November ; 

 6 ex. Also 2 in Bishop Museum. 



86. Stathmopoda anticyma, n. sp. 



$ 11 mm. Head pearly white, back of crown dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, 

 a dark fuscous lateral line. Thorax dark fuscous, a broad white antemedian 

 band. Forewings dark fuscous ; a narrow ochreous- white costal streak from 

 base, expanding before middle into a triangular blotch reaching nearly half 

 across wing, and terminating in a larger triangular postmedian blotch whose 

 apex touches tornus ; a triangular white apical blotch, widest on costa and 

 sometimes almost connected with preceding, in one specimen also on termen : 

 cilia whitish-ochreous, towards tips whitish, on tornus tinged fuscous, on costa 

 a fuscous basal shade. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Upolu, Apia, Vailima, March, June, November ; 4 ex. Also 1 in Bishop 

 Museum. Nearly allied to the Australian S. megathyma and S. zalodes. 



87. Pachyrhabda antinoma Meyr. 



Upolu, Malololelei, 2,000 feet, April, May ; 2 ex. Also 1 from Tutuila, 

 Pago Pago (Swezey) in Bishop Museum. Occurs also in India, Ceylon, East 



