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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



99. Arrade samoensis, sp. n (Plate VIII, figs. 10, 11). 



Antenna sepia. Palpus with third segment slender, as long as second, 

 sepia, avellaneous inwardly. Head avellaneous. Thorax avellaneous mixed 

 with sepia. Abdomen avellaneous, distally shaded with sepia. Sternum and 

 venter avellaneous, the latter shaded with sepia. Fore and mid legs sepia, 

 tipped with cartridge buff at both extremities of femora and tibiae, and tarsal 

 segments distally. Hind leg cartridge buff. Forewing sepia, the pattern in 

 cartridge buff ; sub-basal fascia of two lunules, oblique basad to inner margin ; 

 bowed antemedial fascia (concavity basad), broad from costa to below cell, 

 then narrow to inner margin ; spot on discocellulars ; three dots on costa 

 between antemedial fascia and postmedial fascia ; a wavy deeply bowed post- 

 medial fascia (concavity basad) from costa at about two-thirds to just beyond 

 middle of inner margin ; a wavy subterminal fascia parallel with termen ; a 

 series of ill-defined sepia terminal lunules ; fringe cartridge buff shaded with 

 sepia at apex, middle and tornus. Hindwing avellaneous, uniformly but 

 lightly shaded with fuscous ; fringe warm buff. Underside : forewing and 

 hindwing avellaneous, lightly shaded with fuscous. 

 Similar. 



Expanse : 22 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Apia, x. 1925. 



Allotype Upolu : Malololelei, 21. vi. 1924. 



Paratype Upolu : Vailima, 24.V.1924. 



100. Luceria oculalis Moore (Plate XVIII, fig. 9). 



Rivula oculalis Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 614. 

 Upolu : Apia, 2 $9, 13.iv., 18.V.1924 (Armstrong). 



101. Chusaris aurantilineata Hampson (Plate VII, fig. 4). 



Chusaris aurantilineata Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iv, Appendix, p. 546, 1896. 

 Savaii. 2 99, 21.xi.1925. 



These two specimens are in such poor condition that I am not absolutely 

 certain that they belong to this species. They are, however, sufficiently like 

 the Ceylon specimens to make it equally difficult to say they are not con-specific. 



