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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



on the dorsum of abdominal segments six and seven. The larva has all the 

 characters of an Arctiid, as defined by Fracker, and by Forbes." 



11. Deilemera mundipicta samoensis, subsp. n. (Plate XII, fig. 4). 



<$ and In size smaller than the typical subspecies, and more like the 

 Fijian D. mundipicta fasciata Walker. The transverse white band of the fore- 

 wings, which in the Fijian subspecies is narrower than that in any other known 

 subspecies, is in this new subspecies broad at the middle, and is shaped somewhat 

 like that of the Solomon Islands subspecies, D. mundipicta aluensis. 



Holotype <$ and allotype Tutuila : Pago Pago, 14.xii.1925. 



Paratypes. Tutuila: 4 6 $$, xii.1917, iv.1918 (Kellers); 1 $, 1889 

 (Lister) ; Pago Pago, 1 10.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 1 <$, ii.1927 (Steffany) ; 



1 % 12.iv.1925 (Bryan) ; 3 xii.1924, 14.xii.1925 ; Atauloma, 1 2 

 11, 12.viii. 1925. 



Manua : Tau, 1 <$, 1 $, 21. ii. 1926 (Judd). 



12. Argina cribraria Clerck. 



Ph. [alaena] cribraria Clerck, I cones, ii, pi. 54, 1764. 



Argina cribraria Clerck, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii. p. 125, 1915. 



Upolu : 1 $ (Henniger) ; Apia, 2 $$, 29. i. 1924, 30.U925 ; Moa Moa, 



2 $$, 18.iv.1924. 



AGROTIDAE. 



Agrotinae 

 13. Heliothis armigera Hiibner. 



Noctua armigera Hiibner, Europ. Schmett., Tab. Noctua 79, fig. 370, 1802-1808. 

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



It is to be hoped that nothing will occur to disturb further the name 

 Heliothis armigera. Hampson (Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., iv, p. 15, 1903) cites : 

 Heliothis, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur., iv, p. 91, 1816, non descr. ; Treitschke, 

 Schmett. Eur., v, 3, p. 215, 1826. Ochsenheimer, however, refers under Heliothis, 

 to Heliothentes Hiibner, which, although not the name of a genus in our sense, 

 is applied to a group indicated by Hiibner in his Tentamen. I adopt the name 

 from Ochsenheimer, 1816, on the ground of that indication (cf. p. 172). 



