HBTEROCERA. 



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buff, patchily covered with fuscous black to present a longitudinally streaked 

 effect, relieved with some chestnut brown mostly beyond the indistinct post- 

 medial fascia ; bowed (concavity basad) antemedial and postmedial fasciae, 

 hardly traceable ; costa broadly fuscous black ; termen and fringe fuscous ; 

 the chestnut brown runs indistinctly in two fasciae, one through the cell roughly 

 parallel with costa, the other between the cubital veins. Hindwing liver brown 

 with inner margin broadly light buff, some chestnut brown where the other two 

 colours join ; a narrow, bowed (concavity basad) chestnut postmedial fascia 

 from costa at three-fourths, roughly parallel with the direction of the termen 

 (but lacking its irregularities), obsolescent towards inner margin. 



Underside light buff sparsely irrorated with fuscous, more noticeably on 

 costa of both wings ; forewing with a longitudinal indistinct stripe of irroration 

 through the cell from base to termen. 



Expanse : 23 mm. 



Similar, larger. Bowed antemedial and postmedial fasciae on fore- 

 wings slightly more prominent ; hindwing with the projection on the termen 

 at vein Rs more produced than in the <$ ; colours more mixed and patchy ; a 

 distinct discocellular streak. Underside of hindwing noticeably paler in colour 

 than forewing, more so than in $ ; traces of bowed postmedial bands of irroration. 



Expanse : 28 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Malololelei, 24.ii.1924. 

 Allotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 24.vi.1924. 

 Paratype Upolu : Malololelei, 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong). 



114. Gathynia lugens Warren. 



Epiplema lugens Warren, Nov. Zool., iv, p. 202, 1897. 



The type in the Tring Museum is a female taken at Apia by Woodford. 

 Upolu : Apia, 1 x.1925 ; Malololelei, 1 $, 21.iv.1925 ; Vailima, 1 

 29.iii.1924. 



115. Phazaca kellersi, sp. n. (Plate XVIII, fig. 14). 



Palpus olive brown, white on inner side. Antenna with the shaft 

 white. Head with frons olive brown, lower half streaked with white ; vertex 

 white. Thorax tilleul buff, buffy brown in front. Abdomen tilleul buff tinged 



