240 INSECTS OP SAMOA. 



buff. Forewing white, costa tinged with cartridge buff and shaded with bistre ; 

 a rough bistre semicircle on inner margin, its diameter extending along the third 

 quarter ; from below costa a sharply oblique bistre fascia (directed tornad) 

 through upper angle of cell but not reaching beyond vein M 3 ; from below costa 

 at two-thirds a narrow bistre postmedial fascia, oblique, slightly bowed (con- 

 cavity basad), running towards middle of termen but stopping short just beyond 

 vein M 2 ; a series of blackish brown interneural dots before the termen, con- 

 verging towards termen as they approach the tornus ; a fine pre-terminal bistre 

 line ; fringe snuff brown. Hind wing white, tinged with cartridge buff par- 

 ticularly along inner margin ; a blackish brown spot on costa at one-quarter, 

 another at the middle, commencing a slightly interrupted, bowed (concavity 

 basad) bistre postmedial fascia from middle of costa to inner margin at three- 

 quarters ; a series of interneural blackish brown dots before the termen, from 

 vein Es towards anal angle ; fringe cartridge buff ; a large fold along inner 

 margin containing fine silky hair-scales. Underside white tinged with cartridge 

 buff ; forewing with a longitudinal fascia of blackish brown irroration from base 

 to apex, running between cell and costa, with which it is parallel. 

 Expanse : 23 mm. (21 mm. from tip to tip). 



$. Similar. Forewing with bistre strigulae, causing the $ to look browner 

 than the male ; the short postmedial fascia is distinctly edged dis tally with white ; 

 hindwing with the postmedial fascia distinctly broadened towards inner margin, 

 and tinged with brighter colour — chestnut. Underside cartridge buff, forewing 

 suffused with warm buff costad and terminad ; irroration more in the form 

 of transverse strigulae, and scattered over wing. 



Expanse : 25 mm. 



Holotype J. Upolu : Malololelei, 12.iii.1924. 

 Allotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong). 

 Paratypes. Upolu : Malololelei, 1 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; 1 J, 

 12.iii.1924. 



113. Epiplema lypera, sp. n. (Plate XI, figs. 1, 2). 



<J. Palpus fuscous black. Antenna fuscous, the shaft scaled with light 

 buff. Head with frons fuscous, vertex light buff. Thorax fuscous, drab laterally. 

 Abdomen fuscous and drab mixed, light buff distally. Pectus, venter and legs 

 light buff, suffused in varying degrees with fuscous to drab. Forewing light 



