220 INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



65. Catephia sericea Butler. 



Anophia sericea Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), x, p. 230, 1882. 



Upolu : Apia, 5 18, 20.V.1922 (Armstrong), ix., 17.xi.1924, vii.1925. 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 4 5 14.ix.1923, x.1923, i.1924 (Steffany) ; 

 Leone Ed., 2 $$, 22.iii.1926 (Judd). 



Manua : Ofu, 1 $, 21.ii.1926 (Judd). 



66. Nagia homotima, sp. n. (Plate VIII, fig. 3). 



Palpus fuscous, sparsely irrorated with white ; antenna fuscous ; head 

 fuscous, irrorated with white ; thorax fuscous, glossy, changing with changing 

 light through varying shades of blue and violet, the tegula with some auburn 

 scales at centre ; abdomen fuscous, the crests similar to thorax in having the 

 cupreous gloss ; pectus hair brown streaked with white ; legs fuscous, hair 

 brown and white mixed ; venter hair brown to fuscous mixed with white. 

 Forewing argus brown to auburn ; sub-basal fascia velvety clove brown to 

 fuscous black from costa to middle of wing, remainder hidden by a patch of 

 fuscous scales with cupreous gloss ; an irregular velvety clove brown to fuscous 

 black antemedial fascia, inwardly oblique from costa to lower margin of cell, 

 sharply out-curved from cell to vein A 2 , slightly bowed between costa and inner 

 margin (in both cases concavity basad) ; orbicular a clove brown dot ; a clove 

 brown to fuscous black crenate medial fascia, slightly bowed (concavity basad) ; 

 reniform outlined with argus brown, with a few clove brown scales intermixed ; 

 postmedial fascia velvety clove brown to fuscous black, sinuous and sharply 

 oblique tornad from costa to vein M 3 , dentate at M 3 and Cui, looping back to 

 lower angle of cell (loop in this example closed, but possibly not always so), 

 then a sharp narrow indentation basad along Cu 2 , thence oblique inwards to 

 vein A 2 , then sharply oblique outwards to near inner margin, angling to oblique 

 inwards to inner margin ; an irregularly sinuate-undulate subterminal fascia, 

 light ochraceous buff at costa becoming gradually darker and approaching the 

 ground-colour towards inner margin, succeeded by a diffuse clove brown spot, 

 between veins R 5 and M l5 and a similarly coloured dash to termen between 

 veins M 2 and M 3 ; some white irroration near apex ; a series of clove brown 

 terminal lunules ; fringe fuscous black ; area between antemedial and post- 

 medial fasciae suffused with tea green, this colour extending out in a trilobate 



