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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Hopkins. Rebel records one specimen taken on Upolu at Apia by Dr. 

 Friederichs. 



19. Prodenia litura Fabricius. 



Noctua litura Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 601, 1775. 



Hadena littoralis Boisduval, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ii [2], p. 239, 1833 ; Faun. Ent. 



Madag., Lep., p. 91, pi. 13, fig. 8, 1833. 

 Prodenia littoralis Boisduval, Bebel, Denkschr. K. Alcad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., lxxxv, 



p. 424, 1910. 



Prodenia litura Fabricius, Bebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 125, 1915. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 2 $$, 18.ii., 26.V.1922, 14.vi.1924 (Armstrong) ; 1 

 4 20.iv., 19.v., ix.1924, viii.1925 ; 1 <j>, 15.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 

 2 specimens (Friederichs), recorded by Rebel, 1915 ; Malifa, 2 specimens, lO.v., 

 6.viii.l905 (Rechinger), recorded by Rebel, 1910 ; Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 1 <$, 

 2 6, 7, 8.V.1924 (Armstrong) ; 2 3 ?$, 24.ii., 7, 9.V.1924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 5 1 <j>, 14.ix., x.1923, i.1924 ; Leone Road, 

 2 22.iii.1926 (Judd). 



Manua : Ofu, 1 2, 27.ii.1926 (Judd). 



A widely distributed species, found throughout Africa, and in addition 

 ranging from eastern Europe to the Sandwich Islands. The larva is injurious 

 to cotton, tobacco and maize, and feeds on many other plants. 



20. Spodoptera mauritia Boisduval. 



Hadena mauritia Boisduval, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ii [2], p. 240, 1833 ; Faun. Ent. 



Madag., Lep., p. 92, pi. 13, fig. 9, 1833. 

 Spodoptera mauritia Boisd., Bebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., lxxxv, 



p. 424, 1910. 



Spodoptera mauritia Boisduval, Bebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 125, 1915. 



A widely distributed species, found throughout Africa, and in addition 

 ranging throughout the Indo-Australian region, and also many of the Pacific 

 Islands. The larva is injurious to rice in the Punjab. 



Samoa. 1 1 iii-viii.1921 (O'Connor) ; 1 <$ (Reincke), recorded by Rebel, 

 1910. 



Upolu : Apia, a number of specimens (Friederichs), recorded by Rebel, 

 1915; 1 $, 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder); 1 4 $?, 3.ii., 18.X.1922, 

 14.ii.1923, 4.iii., lO.v.1924 (Armstrong) ; 3 14 $$, 5.v., 27.vi.1924, 26.iii. 

 1925 ; 7, 19, 22.iL, 8, 18.v., 7, 19, 21, 30.vi., 18.x., 7.xi., 24.xii.1924 ; Malo- 



