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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



with olive buff. Pectus, venter and legs tilleul buff, the foreleg shaded with 

 buffy brown, mid and hind tarsi enriched with warm buff. Forewing tilleul 

 buff, appearing pale brownish drab owing to the fuscous tips of numerous 

 scattered scales, sometimes so arranged as to form obscure transverse strigulae ; 

 an indistinct, fine antemedial fascia, oblique from costa at one-third to vein 

 M 3 at one quarter, there angled and then oblique to middle of inner margin ; an 

 indistinct amber brown postmedial fascia deeply bowed (concavity basad) from 

 costa at three-quarters to vein M 3 at two-thirds, thence obsolescent, possibly 

 ending in the sharply oblique streak on the inner margin at three-quarters ; 

 the inner marginal extremities of both the antemedial and postmedial fasciae 

 together give the appearance of one of those semi-circular marks common on the 

 inner margin of the forewing of moths belonging to this family ; a pre-terminal 

 series of velvety bone brown dashes ; fringe drab. Hind wing similar in colour 

 to forewing ; a bowed antemedial fascia and an angled postmedial fascia ; 

 velvety bone brown pre-terminal dashes preceeded by some opalescent scaling. 

 Underside uniform tilleul buff, covered sparsely with fuscous dots or strigulae. 

 Expanse : 25 mm. 



Holotype $ and paratype Tutuila : (Kellers). 



PSYCHIDAE. 

 [? Clania, sp.] 



? Clania sp., Rebel, Denkschr. K. Ahad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. KL, lxxxv, p. 432, fig. 33, 

 1910 (larva-case). 



Upolu : Apia, 1 larva-case, xii.1925, possibly belonging to the same species 

 as that recorded by Rebel as having been found by Dr. Rechinger on Melochia 

 odorata (Sterculiaceae). 



116. Mahasena corbetti Tarns (Plate XII, fig. 3). 



Mahasena corbetti Tarns, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10), i, p. 632, 1928. 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 xii.1925. 



[? Fumea, sp.] 



? Fumea sp., Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturiv. Kl., lxxxv, p. 432, fig. 34, 

 1910 (larva-case). 



A single larva-case is recorded as having been taken by Dr. Rechinger on an 

 epiphytic fern (Polypodium caudiforme Bl.) on Upolu on 23.vi.1905. This may 

 belong to the species described below. 



