MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



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52. Labdia gypsodelta, n. sp. 



c?$ 10 mm. Head, thorax dark grey, face whitish, eyes crimson ; thorax 

 <J with expansible tuft of very long whitish hairs from beneath forewings. Palpi 

 whitish, terminal joint suffused grey anteriorly. Forewings rather dark violet- 

 grey ; stigmata round, obscurely darker, faintly whitish -ringed, plical slightly 

 beyond first discal ; a triangular whitish spot on middle of costa, its apex just 

 beyond first discal and tending to meet an irregular subcrescentic smaller whitish 

 spot in disc rather beyond these : cilia grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Upolu, Apia, Vailima, March, June ; 2 ex. 



53. Labdia rhectaula, n. sp. 



c?$ 9-10 mm. Head, thorax shining whitish-yellow, tegulae dark fuscous. 

 Palpi white, second joint grey except towards apex. Forewings dark fuscous ; 

 a broad whitish-yellow costal streak from base to beyond middle, its apex suffused 

 and some slight suffusion beyond this ; a broad whitish-yellow streak from 

 base along dorsum and termen to near apex, more or less completely interrupted 

 by an irregular oblique bar of groundcolour about middle of -wing, apex pointed : 

 cilia light grey, on termen base suffused whitish-yellow. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia grey. 



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



54. Labdia leptonoma, n. sp. 



S 7 mm. Head, thorax whitish, a central streak of brownish suffusion. 

 Antennae whitish ringed brownish. Palpi whitish. Forewings brownish ; 

 dorsal area to fold whitish ; costal edge and all veins marked in distinct whitish 

 lines : cilia whitish. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia whitish. 



Upolu, Apia, March ; 1 ex. 



55. Labdia triformis, n. sp. 



c?$ 8-10 mm. Head shining white, eyes crimson. Antennae ochreous- 

 whitish. Palpi whitish, anterior edge of terminal joint more or less grey. Thorax 

 grey, a broad white dorsal stripe, in S an expansible tuft of very fine long whitish 

 hairs from beneath forewings. Forewings fuscous ; costal edge white from base 

 to a triangular spot near apex, with attached narrow-elongate ochreous-whitish 

 blotch before middle, and a shorter one beyond middle ; a white streak along 

 dorsum from base to about § of wing, hardly protuberant posteriorly, there 



