INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



15. Catophaga jacquinotn manaia, ssp. n. 

 Catophaga athama ; Butler Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.. 1898, p. 398. 

 Rebel, 1910, p. 420. 

 Female (PL II, fig. 11). Upperside pale creamy-yellow, darker on the 

 hindwing. Forewing ; costa thickly sprinkled with black scales ; apical third 

 of wing and a broad terminal band black, black area somewhat deeply excavated 

 in interspace 2 and bearing a series of 3 large and 2 small and diffuse sub-apical 

 spots of the ground-colour ; hindwing with a broad black subterminal border, 

 between which and the termen is a series of small triangular areas of the 

 ground-colour. Underside : forewing with a broad irregular black postdis- 

 cal band dividing the wing into two areas, a very pale yellow basal area in 

 which the cell is strongly suffused with chrome-yellow, and an apical area 

 which appears to be black in reality, but is so strongly suffused with white 

 scales as to seem pearly-white ; the subapical spots appear pure white on 

 this pearly- white ground ; hindwing greenish- white, a narrow strip along 

 the costa and a small area at the anal angle chrome-yellow ; a broad subter- 

 minal band as on the upperside, but so strongly suffused with white as to appear 

 pearly. 



Male (PI. II, fig. 9). Upperside white, costa, apex, and termen of fore- 

 wing very narrowly edged with black ; underside white, black markings as on 

 upperside, apex of forewing and whole of hindwing yellowish-buff, deepening 

 to canary-yellow along the costa and at the anal angle of the hindwing. There 

 is an opaque area in the disc of the upperside of the hindwing, which is apparently 

 a patch of scent-scales. 



Types from Lalomanu, Aleipata district, Upolu Island, female 20.xi.24, 

 male 23.X.24 ; a series of more than forty paratypes from the above locality 

 and others, in Western Samoa. Maximum, mean, and minimum expanse of 

 female (twenty-three specimens) 66, 61, and 54 mm., of male (twenty-three 

 specimens) 69, 64, and 58 mm. I have made the female the holotype on account 

 of the difficulty of separating males of the different forms in this subgenus. 

 The name means " beautiful " in Samoan. 



The above race is apparently very closely allied to C. jacquinotii Lucas 

 (=C. athama Lucas), but is distinguished in the female by the paler ground- 

 colour, the deeper indentation of the black area of the forewing in interspace 2, 

 and the presence of more than three subapical spots ; the above differences 

 are taken from Lucas' figure (Blanchard, Voyage au Pole Sud, Zoologie IV, 



