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minent dot on the anal vein (A 2 ) ; medial area with heavier vinaceous fawn and 

 fuscous irroration forming a shade ; a sepia spot at end of cell ; an irregular 

 white postmedial fascia, strongly bowed round end of cell, accentuated proximad 

 by fuscous black dots on the veins (that on Cu 2 most prominent), edged distad 

 by a vinaceous fawn shade ; a fuscous black subterminal line, less deeply bowed 

 than postmedial, obsolescent at costa, between veins M x and M 3 , and between 

 Cu 2 and inner margin ; all the fasciae commencing with chocolate on costa ; 

 strong vinaceous fawn irroration before the termen, forming a distinct shade 

 broadest at costa, where there is a fuscous black apical mark ; a series of fuscous 

 black terminal dots on veins ; fringe variegated vinaceous fawn, white and 

 fuscous. Hindwing white, the distal third lightly shaded fuscous ; fringe white. 



Underside : forewing tawny olive to fuscous, costa with white edge, 

 tinged with chocolate at base with three chocolate dashes before apex, fringe 

 almost entirely white ; hindwing white, shaded tawny olive to fuscous from cell 

 to costa, distal fourth infuscate ; fringe white with a few fuscous scales. 



9. Larger, markings somewhat lighter. Underside forewings tawny 

 olive rather than fuscous. 



Expanse, $ 22 mm., $ 26 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 24.ii.1924. 

 Allotype Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 21.iv.1925. 

 Paratypes. Samoa, iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). 



Upolu : Apia, 1 <$, 13.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 1 $, ix., 17.xi.1924. 



Malololelei, 2^, 2 24.ii.1924, 21.iv.1926; Siumu, 1 g, 24.xi.1923 (Armstrong). 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 2 1 $, i, ii.1924 (StefTany). 



40. Characoma scoparioides Walker. 



Corticata scoparioides Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., vii, p. 53, 1863. 

 Characoma scoparioides Walker, Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., xi, p. 230, 1912. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 $, 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



I suspect that this moth lacks the areole in the forewing, and may belong 

 more properly in the genus Dilophothripa. 



41. Mniothripa lichenigera Hampson. 



Giaura lichenigera Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xvi, p. 543, 1905. 

 Mniothripa lichenigera Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., xi, p. 261, 1912. 



Tutuila : 1 & 1 ? (Kellers). 



