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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



80. Rusicada vulpina Butler. 



Gonitis vulpina Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 408. 



Gonitis fulvida Guenee, Eebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturiv. Kl., lxxxv, p. 425, 

 1910 (non Guenee.) 



Gonitis vulpina Butler, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 130, 1915 (without 

 certainty, W. H. T. T.). 



These records may refer to R. nigritarsis xanthochroa Butler, but as the type 

 of R. vulpina is a Fijian specimen, from what I know of these moths I think it 

 possible that Rebel may have had before him an example of R. vulpina, and I 

 therefore include the record here. 



81. Tiridata samoana Butler (Plate VIII, figs. 4, 5). 

 Gonitis samoana Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 407. 

 Samoa. 1 (Butler's type). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 <j, ii.1924 (Steffany), 1 $, 12.viii.1925. 



This species is apparently quite distinct from T. vitiensis Butler, but the 

 material from Samoa is too scanty to make a proper investigation possible. 



82. Hypospila similis, sp. n. (Plate VI, fig. 18). 



3. Palpus sepia, the third segment streaked with white and tipped with 

 light buff. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen dorsally sepia. Pectus sepia 

 mixed with warm buff and white giving it a warm greyish speckled appearance. 

 Legs sepia, the femora irrorated with white and fringed with mixed sepia and 

 white hairs, the tibiae with very little white irroration, the tarsal segments warm 

 buff at each end and ventrally. Underside of abdomen light to warm buff 

 irrorated with sepia. Forewing sepia, with a raisin-black suffusion over the disc 

 in oblique light, the markings in rich velvety sepia contrasted with vinaceous 

 brown ; an oblique, bowed, crenate (concavities basad) antemedial fascia ; a 

 spot in middle of cell ; a medial shade, bowed across end of cell (concavity basad), 

 broadening towards anal vein (A 2 ), between which and inner margin it forms a 

 heavy velvety sepia spot almost filling the space between the antemedial and 

 postmedial fascia ; some white scales on discocellulars ; postmedial fascia 

 apparently merging with medial shade from costa to lower angle of cell, whence 

 it is crenate (concavities terminad) ; an almost straight, very slightly waved 

 oblique subterminal fascia ; some vinaceous brown contrast on costa after the 

 postmedial and before the subterminal, with much more on the inner margin 



