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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



29. Eustrotia ritsemae Snellen. 



Erastria ritsemae Snellen, Tijdschr v. Ent., xxiii, p. 57, pi. 5, fig. 2, 1880. 



Erastria ritsemae Snellen, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. EX., lxxxv, 

 p. 426, 1910. 



Erastria ritsemae Snellen, Rebel in Galvagni, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lxii, p. (121), 1912. 



Eustrotia ritsemae Snellen, Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., x, p. 588, 1910. 



Erastria ritsemae Snellen, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 126, 1915. 



Samoa. 1 J, 1920 (O'Connor). 



Upolu : 1 g, xii.1910 (Prowazek) ; Apia, 1 $, 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and 

 Wilder) ; 1 & 1 $, 4.V.1924 (Armstrong) ; 1 ii.1924 ; Malololelei, 3 <$J, 

 24.ii.1924, 21.iv.1925 ; 1 $, 25.vi.1924 ; Lalomanu, 1 xi.1924. 



Savaii : Fagamalo, 1 & 10.ii.1924 ; Tuasivi, 1 8.ii.l924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 4 18.ix.1923, i., ii.1924 (Steffany) ; 2 

 10.ix.1923 (Swezey) ; 2 22.ix.1923, ii.1924 ; Amauli, 1 1 ?, 9.ix.l923 

 (Swezey). 



Manua : Tau, 1 & 27.ix.1923 (Swezey). 



EUTELIINAE. 



30. Bombotelia simplex Walker. 



Eutelia simplex Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M., xxxiii, p. 824, 1865. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 24.vi.1924 (Armstrong) ; Malololelei, 1 26.vi.1922 

 (Armstrong). 



31. Phlegetonia fasciatrix Semper. 



Eurhipia fasciatrix Semper, Reise Arch. Philipp., Schmett., ii, p. 711, pi. 66, fig. 20, 1902. 

 Upolu : Apia, 1 2, 10.iii.1923 (Armstrong). 



32. Phlegetonia delatrix Guenee. 



Penicillaria delatrix Guenee, Spec. Gen., Noct., ii, p. 304, 1852. 

 Samoa. 1 9, 1920 (O'Connor). 



33. Paectes canescens, sp. n. (Plate VI. fig. 14.) 



Palpus cartridge buff, outwardly irrorated with avellaneous and bone- 

 brown mixed. Antenna with a tuft at base, cartridge buff tinged with avel- 

 laneous, the shaft dorsally with proximal half cartridge buff banded with bone 

 brown, distal half infuscate, ventrally russet. Head and thorax with cartridge 



