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lolelei, 2,000 feet, 3 5 $$, 12, 24, 25.ii., 6.vii.l924, 21.iv.1925 ; Malifa, 

 28.v., 6.vi.l905 (Rechinger) ; Motootua, 31.V.1905 (Rechinger) ; Vaimea, 

 7.vi.l905 (Rechinger). 



Savaii : Salailua, 2 $$, 12.viii.1924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 & x.1923 ; 10 $?, 14.ix., x.1923, L, ii.1924 

 (StefTany) ; Leone Rd., 2 22.iii.1926 (Judd). 

 Manua : Ofu, 3 27.ii., 2.iii.l926 (Judd). 



21. Perigea illecta Walker (Plate VII, figs. 10, 11 ; Plate VIII, figs. 6, 7). 

 Perigea illecta Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M., xxxii, p. 684, 1865. 



Perigea capensis Guenee Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. EX., lxxxv, p. 425, 

 1910, non Guenee. 



Perigea capensis Guenee Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 145, 1915, non 

 Guenee. 



It is unfortunate that the name " Perigea capensis " has been wrongly 

 applied to this species, because the moth is of economic importance and the name 

 has in consequence become widely diffused through economic entomological 

 literature. I have been unable to discover the type of Perigea capensis, which 

 should be in the Oberthiir collection, but Guenee's description leaves no doubt 

 in my mind that the moth he described was certainly not the one with which 

 we are here concerned. There is scope for more research in connection with 

 the geographical distribution of the species and its possible representation by 

 subspecies in various parts of the world. At present, however, I cannot find 

 constant differentiating characters and so I prefer to leave the Samoan insect 

 under its new name Perigea illecta. 



Samoa. 1 iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). 



Upolu : Apia, 1 3.V.1922, 2 $$, 14.ii., 10.iii.1923 (Armstrong) ; 2 

 19.ii., 31.viii.1924 ; Malololelei, 2 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; Malololelei, 

 2,000 feet, 9 13, 22, 25.ii.1924, 21.iv.1925, 7 ?$, 22-24.fi., 25.vi.1924 ; 

 20.ix.1925 ; Malifa, 10, 26. vi., 29.vii., 6.viii.l905 (Rechinger). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 2 0, 3 $$, i.1924 (Steffany). 



22. Elydna nonagrica Walker. 



Curgia nonagrica Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoology, vii, p. 166, 1864. 

 Amphipxjra agrotoides Snellen, Tijdschr. v. Ent., xxiii, p. 77, pi. 6, fig. 6, 1880. 



This species is widely, and wrongly, known as Elydna reclusa Walker. 

 Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 2 6, 7.vii.l924, 1 9.vii.l924. 



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