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45. Maurilia iconica Walker. 



Anomis iconica Walker, List Lcp. Ins. B. 31., xiii, p. 992, 1857. 



Churia arcuata Walker, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., lxxxv, p. 426, 

 1910 (non Walker). 



Maurilia iconica Walker, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 127, 1915. 



Upolu: L viii.1905 (Rechinger) ; 4 specimens, including at least 1 $ 

 (Friederichs) ; Apia, 1 $, 13.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; I 1 £, 10.x. 1922 

 (Armstrong) ; Malololelei, 1 <$ (very large), 6.vi.l924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 <J, 1 $, i.1924 (Steffany). 



Catocalinae. 

 Anomocala, gen. nov. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpus with the second segment obliquely 

 upturned reaching level of vertex, broadly and smoothly scaled, the third 

 segment porrect, slender, smoothly scaled, half as long as second ; frons with 

 conical tuft of hair reaching forward to palpus ; eye large, round, prominent ; 

 antenna ($ only known) with very fine short bristles ; thorax clothed with scales 

 and without noticeable crests ; fore tibia outwardly fringed with hair-scales ; 

 abdomen without crests. Forewing with the costa slightly bowed at base and 

 apex, termen ang]ed at vein M 3 , slightly crenulate ; vein E 3 from R 2 anasto- 

 mosing with R 4 to form areole ; M l5 M 2 , M 3 and Cui from the cell ; Cu 2 from 

 cell well before the angle. Hind wing with the termen rounded to vein Cu 2 , 

 crenulate ; veins Us and Mi connate, M 2 from just above lower angle, M 3 and 

 Cui connate, Cu 2 well before the angle of the cell. 



Genotype : Anomocala hophinsi Tarns, sp. nov. 



46. Anomocala hopkinsi, sp. nov. (Plate VI, fig. 16 ; Plate VII, fig. 5). 



Palpus with the second segment mummy brown outwardly, the third 

 segment warm buff. Antenna sepia. Head with frons clothed with light 

 ochraceous buff scales, vertex light buff, to fuscous occipitally. Thorax cinna- 

 mon brown to russet. Abdomen greyish olive to drab, with a small terminal 

 tuft of light ochraceous buff. Pectus clothed with white-tipped fuscous hair- 

 scales, mixed with some light buff. Legs sepia, the fore tibia irrorated with 

 white, the mid tibia warm sepia. Underside of abdomen greyish olive, the 

 segments edged with olive buff. Forewing russet to Mars brown with some traces 



