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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



similar to that of forewing. Underside of both fore and hindwings cartridge buff 

 heavily shaded with fuscous, the forewing more densely than the hind wing ; 

 forewing with a very small fuscous spot at middle of discocellulars ; faint 

 traces of an oblique diffuse medial fascia from M x well beyond end of cell, to 

 middle of inner margin ; postmedial fascia deeply bowed — but without the loop 

 present in the upper side postmedial — crenulate, cartridge buff edged proximally 

 and distally with fuscous ; subterminal fascia cartridge buff, interrupted to form 

 a series of dashes ; terminal line velvety bone brown preceded by cartridge 

 buff ; fringe as on upperside ; hindwing similar, but with discocellular spot 

 triangular proximad, medial shade sinuous, prominent, postmedial fascia with 

 a broader curve than that of forewing, subterminal fascia continuous, com- 

 mencing at about vein Mi , broadening towards anal angle. 

 Expanse 35 mm. 



Holotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 22.iv.1925. 

 Paratype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 29.xi.1924. 

 This species seems closely related to P. cyanodes Turner. 



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Stictopterinae . 

 34. Stictoptera hepatica Rebel. 



Stictoptera hepatica Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, pp. 126, 148, pi. 1, fig. 8, 

 1915. 



Samoa. 1 $ and later 3 2 (Friederichs). 



Upolu : Apia, 2 x.1925 ; Malololelei, 2 22.il, 5.vi.l924, 5 $g, 

 23, 24.ii, 5.vii.l924. 



35. Gyrtona hopkinsi, sp. n. (Plate XII, fig. 11). 

 Palpus deep brownish drab finely irrorated with tilleul buff, cartridge 

 buff ventrally. Antennae deep brownish drab. Thorax deep brownish drab 

 mixed with pale brownish drab, patagium with a fine transverse medial fuscous 

 black fascia. Tergum light buff shaded with pale brownish drab. Pectus fight 

 buff. Foreleg deep brownish drab, irrorated with cartridge buff, tibia with 

 some long light buff hair-scales, tarsus with each segment narrowly ringed 

 distally with cartridge buff ; mid and hind legs light buff, the mid tibia shaded 

 with brownish drab. Venter light buff. Screwing deep brownish drab, mottled 

 with light brownish drab and some light buff ; four fine, fuscous black, crenulate, 

 gently bowed lines before the middle, all concavities basad ; a prominent 



