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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



the proximal two- thirds of the cell, with a small patch just beyond the dis- 

 cocellulars, both areas irrorated with opalescent scales. 

 Expanse : 23 mm. 



Holotype $ and paratype Tutuila : Pago Pago, v. 1896 (de la Garde). 



Galleriinae. 



125. Ceratothalama argosema Meyrick (Plate VI, fig. 25 ; Plate XIII, fig. 2). 



Ceratothalama argosema Meyrick, Exot. Microlep., iv, p. 246, 1932. 

 Tirathaba chionophthalma Meyrick, Exot. Microlep., iv, p. 488, 1934. 



Upolu : Malololelei, 3 $$, 25.ii.1924, 21.iv.1925. 



In the Samoan specimens here recorded the white spot in the disc is 

 obsolescent or actually obsolete. The variation in the size of the white spot leads 

 me to believe that only one species is represented, as in all other respects the 

 insects seem to me to be identical. 



126. Acolastodes oenotripta Meyrick (Plate XIV, figs. 4-6). 



Acolastodes oenotripta Meyrick, Exot. Microlep., iv, p. 489, 1934. 

 Upolu : Malololelei, 1 $, 24.ii.1924. 



127. Corcyra cephalonica Stainton. 



Melissoblaptes (?) cephalonica Stainton, Ent. Monthly Mag., ii, p. 172, 1866. 

 Corcyra cephalonica Stainton, Ragonot, Ent. Monthly Mag., xxii, p. 23, 1885. 



Upolu : Apia, 2^, 1 $, 7, 30.v., ll.vi.1924. 

 Larvae infesting rice. 



128. Tirathaba trichogramma Meyrick. 



Heteromicta trichogramma Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 273. 

 Tirathaba trichogramma Meyrick, Ragonot, Rom. Mem., viii, p. 461, pi. 51, fig. 13, 1901. 

 Tirathaba trichogramma Meyrick, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 133, 1915. 

 Hylaletis trichogramma Meyrick, Exot. Microlep., iv, p. 241, 1932. 



Samoa. 1 $ (Henniger). 



Upolu : 2 (Friederichs) ; Apia, 1 $, 12.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 

 2 30.v., 19.vii.1924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 3 ?$, x.1923, i., ii.1924 (SteiTany). 

 Manua : Ofu, 1 $, 27.ii.1926 (Judd). 



