HETEROCERA. 



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throwing up strongly the velvety sepia markings. Hindwing much shorter than 

 forewing, rounded, the markings similar, though more cramped, the subterminal 

 almost straight and crossing wing halfway between cell-end and termen. 



Underside : forewing with a ground-colour of light buff, almost entirely 

 suffused with sepia with faint traces of upperside markings ; spot in middle of 

 cell, white scales on sepia spot on discocellulars ; hindwing with the markings 

 more contrasted ; a strong postmedial fascia, followed by a light strip of the 

 ground-colour, then a subterminal fascia divided from the general subterminal 

 sepia suffusion by a narrow strip of the ground-colour. 



Expanse : 42 mm. (40 mm. from tip to tip, hindwings 27 mm. from tip to 



tip). 



Holotype <£. Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 24.ii.1924. 



Paratypes. Savaii : Safune (lowlands to 1,000 feet), 1 l.v.1924 (Bryan). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 <J, i.1924 (Steffany). 



83. Anticarsia irrorata Fabricius. 



Noctua irrorata Fabricius, Spec. Ins., ii, Appendix, p. 506, 1781 ; Ent. Syst., iii, 2, p. 21, 1794. 

 Ophiusa rubricans Boisduval, Faun. Ent. Madag. (7), p. 106,' pi. 16, fig. 1, 1833 ; N. Ann. Mus. 



Hist. Nat. (Paris), ii [2], p. 254, 3rd. qtr. 1833. 

 Thermesia rubricans Boisduval, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., lxxxv, 



p. 428, 1910. 



Thermesia rubricans Boisduval, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 145, 1915. 



Samoa. 1 1 labelled " Navigators' Islands," in British Museum 

 collection. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 <J, 1 ?, 23.iii.1924, 18.V.1922 (Armstrong) ; 1 $, 31.V.1924 ; 

 Vaimea, 1 <$, 7.vi.l905 (Rechinger) ; Vailima, 1 <j>, l.ii.1925 ; Fagalii, 1 $, 

 19.vii.1924. 



Nuutele : 1 $, 8.iv.l924. 



Tutuila: Pago Pago, 3 11 $?, x.1923, i., ii.1924 (Steffany) ; 1 9, 

 12.iv.1924 (Bryan) ; 1 14.xii.1925. 



84. Lacera alopeStoll. 



Phal [aena] alope Stoll in Cramer, TJitl. Kapellen, iii (24), p. 168 and index, pi. 286, figs. E, F, 

 1780. 



Upolu : Vailima, 1 19.ix.1922 (Armstrong). 



