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122. Rhodoneura plagifera Butler. 



Microsca plagifera Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 420. 

 Rhodoneura sp., Rebel, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lxii, p. (121), 1912. 



Rhodoneura incarnatalis Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 132, pi. 1, fig. 4, 

 1915. 



Rhodoneura incarnatalis ab. fenestralis Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 132, 

 1915. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 $ (Friederichs) ; 1 $, xii.1910 (Prowazek) ; 2 

 ll.xii.1921, 7.V.1922 (Armstrong). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 i.1924 (Steffany). 



Hampson (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 618) treated Microsca plagifera 

 Butler as synonymous with Rhodoneura myrtaea Drury, which certainly applies 

 to an entirely different insect. Butler's type is a Tonga Islands specimen ($). 



123. Rhodoneura sericatalis Rebel. 



Rhodoneura sericatalis Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 132, pi. 1, fig. 6, 1915. 

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



Upolu : Apia, 2 (Friederichs) ; 4 3 ?$, 13-15.ix.1923 (Swezey and 

 Wilder) ; 1 30.V.1924 ; Malololelei, 1 <$, 27.vi.1924 (Armstrong) ; 3 

 6 $$, 15, 23, 24.ii., 4.V.1924, 21.iv., xii.1925 ; Mt. Vaea, 1 <£, 25.iv.1924 (Bryan) ; 

 Leulumoega, 1 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 5 $$, x.1923, i.1924 (Steffany) ; 1 10.ix.1923 

 (Swezey and Wilder). 



124. Brixia dialitha, sp. n. (Plate XI, fig. 7). 



Palpus cinnamon brown, narrowly straw yellow at joints. Antenna 

 honey yellow. Head straw yellow, with cinnamon brown in front of antennae. 

 Thorax and abdomen straw yellow shaded with cinnamon brown. Pectus, 

 venter and legs straw yellow, the latter variously shaded and banded with 

 cinnamon brown. Forewing straw yellow with a pattern of cinnamon brown 

 leaving the ground-colour mostly arranged in circular spots ; a splash of cinna- 

 mon brown from base to apex below costa, narrow proximally, spreading distally. 

 Hind wing colour similarly disposed, but instead of a longitudinal splash, a 

 transverse slightly bowed cinnamon brown fascia across middle. Underside 

 similar, the forewing with the longitudinal cinnamon-brown splash restricted to 



