244 INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Holotypec?. Upolu : Malololelei, 21.iv.1925. 

 Allotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 9.vii.l924. 



Paratypes. Upolu : Apia, 2 $$, x.1925 ; Malololelei, 1 22.iv.1925 ; 

 Vailima, 1 $, xi.1925. 



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

 1 $, 17.iii.1926 (Judd). 



120. Striglina oecia, sp. n. (Plate XI, fig. 4). 



Ochraceous buff, the forewing mottled with ochre red ; fore tibia 

 infuscate, other legs, as well as palpus, frons and base of costa tinged with 

 ochraceous tawny ; pattern of forewing consists of ochre red mottling arranged 

 in first an antemedial series of spots, almost straight, then a prominent discocel- 

 lular spot, followed by a postmedial fascia from costa at one-sixth to inner 

 margin just beyond middle, broader below vein M 2 , and also a number of dots 

 scattered over the wing ; hindwing with some chestnut brown streaking on 

 proximal half, a prominent chestnut brown discocellular spot, and the distal 

 half of the wing densely mottled with ochre red. Underside with prominent 

 drab to fuscous discocellular spots, and other scattered but small dots or strigulae. 

 Expanse : 28-30 mm. 



$. Light ochraceous buff to warm buff, pattern and mottling fuscous, with 

 no trace of ochre red. 



Expanse : 30-33 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Apia, 27.i.l924. 



Allotype $. Upolu : Apia, 10.xi.1921 (Armstrong). 



Paratypes. Samoa. 1920 (O'Connor). 



Upolu : Apia, 2 10.iii.1923 ; 13.iv.1924 (Armstrong) ; 4 2 $$, 

 30.iv., x.1925 ; Malololelei, 2 gg, vii.1925 (Wilder) ; 1 <j, 1 24.ii., 24.vi.1924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, x.1923, i., 12.iv.1924 (Steffany). 



This species differs from S. vavauensis Hampson in the genitalia, and is 

 possibly uniformly slightly larger ; superficially the two are extremely alike. 



121. Betousa hemicycla, Meyrick (Plate XI, fig. 8). 



Siculodes hemicycla Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 216. 



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

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 2 $$, ii.1924 (Steffany). 



