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98. Hypenodes taona, sp. n. (Plate XII, fig. 6 ; Plate XVIII, fig. 11). 



<£. Palpus inwardly light buff to warm buff, outwardly warm sepia with a 

 dull violet black gloss (in changing light), irrorated with wood brown, the third 

 segment tipped with warm buff. Antenna light buff to pale drab grey, proximal 

 third irrorated with warm sepia. Head and thorax fuscous to warm sepia. 

 Abdomen dorsally and ventrally pale drab grey proximally to drab grey 

 and fuscous distally, glossy, with expanding lateral tufts of fuscous dorsal 

 crests. Pectus pale drab grey. Legs pale drab grey, fore and mid legs 

 heavily shaded with warm sepia, hind leg with tarsi infuscate. Forewing 

 warm sepia with dull violet black gloss ; an orange rufous to Sanford's brown 

 sub-basal spot below costa ; three Sanford's brown spots antemedially, broadly 

 edged distally with fuscous black, inwardly oblique from below costa towards 

 inner margin ; a light buff dash from costa towards upper angle of cell ; an ill- 

 defined Sanford's brown spot on discocellulars, broadly surrounded with fuscous 

 black ; three small equidistant light buff dots on costa between end of cell and 

 apex ; commencing below the third dot, and just above vein R 5 , an oblique, 

 narrow, orange rufous to Sanford's brown postmedial fascia to inner margin at 

 two-thirds edged proximally with fuscous black ; an oblique light buff dash 

 from just before apex, almost joining the postmedial, but continued as an ill- 

 defined sinuous light buff subterminal fascia ; a light buff terminal line inter- 

 rupted at the veins, converting it into a series of terminal interneural dashes, 

 each preceded by fuscous black. Hindwing semi-translucent, whitish to pale 

 olive grey, lightly suffused with fuscous distally, with a lightly infuscate dis- 

 cocellular spot, and traces of postmedial fascia ; fringe fuscous, except at anal 

 angle. Underside of forewing uniformly hair brown with five light buff marks 

 on costa ; of hindwing similar to upperside. Expanse 18 mm. 



Similar, but with orange rufous markings on forewing almost obliterated 

 by fuscous black scales, and hindwing more generally infuscate. Underside 

 as in male. Expanse : 18 mm. 



Holotype g. Savaii : 1,000 feet, 21 .xi. 1925. 



Allotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 25.ii.1924. 



Paratypes. Upolu : 1 <$, 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; Apia, 10 13 

 22-25.ii., 15, 22.vi.1924, 21-22.iv., 5.xii.l925. 



Savaii : 3 1 21. xi. 1925. 



