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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Phycitinae. 

 137. Ephestia cautella Walker. 



Pempelia cautella Walker, List Lep. his. B. M., xxvii, p. 73, 1863. 



Ephestia cautella Walker, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iv, p. 66, 1896. 



Ephestia cautella Walker, Ragonot, Rom. Mem., viii, p. 292, pi. 34, fig. 23, 1901. 



Upolu : Lalomanu, Aleipata, 1 $, xi.1924. 



138. Homoeosoma ephestidiella Hampson. 



Homoeosoma ephestidiella Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iv, p. 67, 1896. 



Homoeosoma ephestidiella Hampson, in Ragonot, Rom. Mem., viii, p. 255, pi. 49, fig. 5, 1901. 



Upolu : 1 $, vi.1924 ; Malololelei, 6 $$, 21, 22, 25.vi.1924, 2.iv.l925. 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 3 9, 10, 18.ix.1923 (Steffany) ; 1 14.xii.1925. 



139. Ptyobathra polia, sp. n. (Plate XIII, fig. 12). 



2. Fuscous, with some white irroration on palpus, legs and pectus. 

 Forewing fuscous suffused with white, the white forming noticeably an oblique 

 bar from costa at one- third to middle of lower margin of cell, the ground-colour 

 accentuated to fuscous black beyond it in middle of cell, followed by an ill- 

 defined white patch surrounding two fuscous black discocellular dots ; traces 

 of an indistinct subterminal fascia and a series of terminal dots ; fringe fuscous. 

 Hind wing drab. Underside drab. 



Expanse : 20 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Malololelei, 2 vii.1924 (Armstrong). 



140. Thylacoptila auchmodes Turner. 



Phycita auchmodes Turner, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xix, p. 50, 1905. 

 Thylacoptila auchmodes Turner, loc. cit. 



Upolu : Malololelei, 2 2 $$, 24, 25.ii.1924. 



141. Thylacoptila gonylasia, sp. n. (Plate XIII, fig. 1 ; Plate XIV, fig. 2). 



Palpus vinaceous cinnamon mixed with liver brown. Antenna honey 

 yellow. Head vinaceous cinnamon. Thorax vinaceous cinnamon, patagium 



