HETEROCERA. 



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Chaerocampinae. 

 109. Hippotion celerio Linnaeus. 

 Sphinx celerio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 491, 1758. 



Hippotion celerio Linnaeus, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 124, 1915. 



Upolu : Apia, 5 4 8, 10, 11, 14.X.1922 (Armstrong) ; 1 <£, 3 $$, 

 18.iv., 17.vii., 16.viii., 15.ix.1924 ; Malololelei, 1 J, lO.v.1924 (Armstrong) ; 

 1 & 25.iv.1924. 



The larvae are occasionally a serious pest of the leaves of " taro " (Colocasia) 

 an Aroid with an edible root. An illustration, showing the damage to this plant, 

 J s to be found in Bull. Ent. Res., xviii, Plate 2, fig. 1. 



URANIIDAE. 

 Epipleminae. 

 110. Epiplema amygdalipennis Warren. 



Epiplema amygdalipennis Warren, Nov. Zool., iv, p. 201, 1897. 



Epiplema amygdalipennis Warren, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 131, 

 pi. 1, fig. 7, 1915. 



Samoa. 1 $, iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). 



Savaii : Fagamalo, 1 <j>, 3.viii.l924 ; Tuasivi, 1 .'<$, 1 £, 8.ii.l924. 



111. Epiplema, sp. 



Epiplema sp., Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 151, 1915. 



Rebel gives a description of a single female example, which he considers 

 is in too poor a condition to determine properly. The description does not appear 

 to me to be applicable to any of the material in my hands at the moment. 



112. Epiplema hapala, sp. n. (Plate XI, fig. 3). 



Palpus cartridge buff, dorsally, and sometimes laterally, bistre. 

 Antenna honey yellow, shaft white-scaled. Head with vertex white, frons 

 bistre. Thorax white, patagia snuff brown. Abdomen white. Pectus and 

 venter white, the latter tinged with cartridge buff distally. Legs white, fore 

 coxa, tibia and tarsus shaded with bistre, mid and hind tibiae tinged with light 



