INSECTS OF SAMOA. 

 Philampelinae. 

 106. Chromis erotus eras Boisduval. 



Deilephila eras Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, hep., p. 185, 1832 



Chromis erotus eras Boisduval, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. KL, lxxxv, 

 p. 422, 1910. 



Chromis erotus eras Boisduval, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 144, 1915. 



Samoa. 1 1920, 1 $, iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor) ; 1 $, labelled " Navigators' 

 Islands "; 1 <J, 1 $, before 1878 (Whitmee) ; 1 6.x. 



TJpolu : Apia, 3 1 $, 14.ii., ll.iii., 18.iv.1923, 20.vii.1924 (Armstrong) ; 

 1 6.vii.l923 (Edwards) ; 1 <$, 5 ?$, 17.ii.1923, 13, 19, 24.iii., 2.ix., 18.X.1924 ; 

 Malololelei, 2 2 $$, 14, 24.ii., iv., 10.vii.1924 ; Motootua, 1 1 31.v., 

 10.vi.1905 (Rechinger) ; Vailima, 1 $, 29.iii.1924. 



Savaii : 1 specimen (sex ?), vii.1905 (Rechinger) ; Salailua, 1 12.viii.1924 ; 

 Fagamalo, 1 19.ii.1925. 



Tntuila : 1 $, xii.1917 (Kellers) ; Pago Pago, 1 % v.1896 (de la Garde). 



107. Deilephila placida steffanyi Clark. 



Deilephila placida steffanyi Clark, Proc. Neiv England Zool. Club, ix, p. 106, 1927. 

 Deilephila placida torenia Bruce, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 123, 

 fig., 1915 (non Druce). 



Upolu : Apia, 1 $, before 1914 (Henniger) ; 1 <$, iv.1925. 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 $, x.1923 (Steffany). 



108. Macroglossum hirundo samoanum Rothschild and Jordan. 



Mucroglossum hirundo samoanum Rothschild and Jordan, Nov. Zool., xiii, p. 407, 1906. 

 Macroglossum hirundo samoanum Rothschild and Jordan, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



Math.-Naturw. EX., lxxxv, p. 423, 1910. 

 Macroglossum hirundo samoanum Rothschild and Jordan, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. 



Anstalt., xxxii, p. 124, 1915. 

 Macroglossum hirundo samoanum ah. navigatorum Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., 



xxxii, p. 124, 1915. 



Upolu: vi. 1905 (Rechinger), observed but not taken ; Apia, 1 27.V.1912 

 (Henniger) ; 1 1 9, ab. navigatorum Rebel (Henniger) ; I 2 8.V.1922, 

 12.iii.1923, l.ix.1924 (Armstrong) ; 6 5 $$, 25.viii., 2, 20, 26, 27, 29.ix., 

 2.X.1924 (several bred from Morinda citrifolia) ; Malololelei, 1 <$, 10.viii.1922 

 (Armstrong) ; 5 1 $, 23.ii., 4. v., 7, lO.vii., ix.1924, 22.iv.1925. 



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