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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



38. Apothripa vailima, sp. n. (Plate XII, fig. 10). 



Palpus cartridge buff suffused with deep olive. Antennal scaling deep 

 olive. Head, thorax and tergum light buff tinged with deep olive. Pectus 

 light buff. Venter light buff tinged with deep olive. Legs light buff, shaded 

 with deep olive, the foreleg most strongly, the hind leg slightly. Forewing 

 deep olive, with the markings as in the figure, the lighter ones cartridge buff, 

 the darker ones dark olive. Hindwing cartridge buff, shaded distally with 

 fuscous. Underside forewing drab grey, hindwing cartridge buff lightly suffused 

 with fuscous except in and immediately around cell. $ similar. The pattern 

 is very variable, the transverse markings sometimes not exhibited, occasionally 

 a prominent dark olive or olive brown fascia extending longitudinally through 

 the middle of the wing. Expanse 20-22 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Apia, 22.V.1924. 



Allotype Upolu : Vailima, 3.vi.l924. 



Paratypes. Upolu : Apia, 1 13.iv.1924 (Armstrong) ; 2 <j>$, 31. iv., 

 26.V.1924 ; Vailima, 1 10.iv.1925. 



39. Barasa rebeli, sp. n. (Plate VII, fig. 2). 



Barasa tetragramma Hampson Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., Ixxxv, 



p. 424, pi. 18, fig. 13, 1910 (non Hampson). 

 Barasa tetragramma Hampson, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 127, 1915 



(non Hampson). 



Palpus white, shaded and irrorated with chocolate. Antenna at base 

 white irrorated with vinaceous fawn, then fuscous. Head and thorax white 

 irrorated with avellaneous, vinaceous fawn and fuscous. Abdomen white, 

 with a fuscous-tipped white basal crest, and some mouse grey shading dorsally. 

 Pectus and legs white, the foreleg with the femur heavily shaded with chocolate 

 and fuscous black, the tibia irrorated or blotched with chocolate, the tarsus with 

 the first segment white irrorated with chocolate, the rest fuscous to fuscous 

 black. Forewing white, with the pattern picked out in cinereous, avellaneous 

 to vinaceous fawn, fuscous, chestnut brown to chocolate, and fuscous black ; 

 a basal patch, fuscous mixed with vinaceous fawn and cinereous, edged on costa 

 with chocolate, distally with fuscous black, and not extending to inner margin ; 

 a pronounced zig-zag antemedial fascia, white, edged vinaceous tawny proximad, 

 with fuscous to fuscous black edging distad, from costa to lower margin of cell, 

 where there is a pronounced dot at base of vein Cu 2 , followed by another pro- 



