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51. Anua samoensis, sp. n. 



Palpus inwardly light buff, outwardly fuscous irrorated with pearly 

 grey. Antenna dorsally light buff, ventrally hazel. Head with frons Sanford's 

 brown, vertex and occiput light to warm buff. Thorax warm buff, tinged with 

 ochraceous buff. Abdomen, dorsally and ventrally, orange buff to deep chrome. 

 Pectus ochraceous orange tinged with Sanford's brown, the vestiture behind the 

 eyes of the latter colour. Foreleg with femur warm buff to ochraceous orange, 

 tibia and tarsus fuscous irrorated with pearl grey, the former with a broad 

 fringe outwardly ; mid leg similarly coloured, with a prominent fuscous black 

 tuft of hair-scales at the femoro-tibial joint ; hind leg warm buff to avellaneous, 

 femur and tibia with long ochraceous orange hair-scales. Forewing cream buff 

 inclining to chamois, with very sparsely and irregularly distributed fuscous 

 irroration in proximal three-quarters ; costa edged with ochraceous orange ; 

 a very small sub-basal fuscous dot ; antemedial fascia barely indicated by fuscous 

 irroration ; orbicular a small fuscous dot surrounded by vinaceous cinnamon ; 

 reniform well marked, fuscous mixed with vinaceous cinnamon, and resembling 

 (left wing) a figure 3 ; postmedial fascia barely indicated by two rows of ill- 

 defined interneural dots of fuscous irroration, and reaching neither costa nor 

 inner margin ; area from sub terminal fascia to termen vinaceous cinnamon, 

 irrorated with pearl grey, the subterminal fascia accentuated by cinnamon 

 and fuscous, with some warm sepia to fuscous black between R 4 and R 5 , and R 5 

 and Mi , and a prominent distal edging of pearl grey ; fringe ochraceous tawny. 

 Hindwing orange buff to deep chrome. Underside (both wings) orange buff, 

 forewing with faint traces of fuscous shading subterminally between veins M 3 

 and Cu 2 . 



Expanse : 70 mm. 



Holotype g. Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 5.vii.l924. 



Later investigations (November, 1934) seem to indicate that this is only 

 an aberration of Anua tongaensis Hampson, of which these are so far the 

 only recorded males. 



52. Anua tongaensis Hampson. 

 Anua tongaensis Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., xii, p. 434, pi. 214, fig. 11, 1913. 

 Tutuila: 1 iv.1918 (Kellers); Pago Pago, 3 14, 23.ix.1923 (Steffany). 



