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to notes made by Dr. Rechinger, who saw it on Upolu, but apparently took no 

 specimens. Buxton has given me a note recording that this moth " was not 

 rare, among Tournefortia argentea trees on the seashore, and nowhere else." 



Hypsinae. 

 10. Deilemera alba Pagenstecher. 



Nyctemera alba Pagenstecher, Jahrb. Nass. Ver.f. Naturk., liv, p. 135, 1901. 



Nyctemera alba Pagenstecher, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., lxxxv, 



p. 423, pi. 18, fig. 16, 1910. 

 Nyctemera alba Pagenstecher, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, pp. 148, 157, 



1915. 



Samoa. 1 <J, 1 $ (Museum Godeffroy) in Hamburg Natural History Museum, 

 recorded by Eebel, 1910 ; series^, $$ (Friederichs), recorded by Eebel, 1915 ; 

 1 (J, 1 $ (Museum Godeffroy) labelled " Viti," in British Museum collection ; 

 1 (J m Oberthiir collection (British Museum) labelled : " Alu, Salomon " Ex 

 Musaeo Doctoris Boisduval ; 1 $ (G. F. Mathew). 



Upolu : 2 $$, ll.vi.1889 (Lister) ; Apia, 1 $, v. 1896 (de la Garde) ; 1 $, 

 4.xii.l921 (Armstrong) ; 3 14, 15.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 1 $, 24.i.l924 ; 

 Malololelei, 1 3 $$, 22, 23.ii., 14.vi.1924 ; Aleipata, 2 iv., v. 1924 ; Malifa, 

 10.vi.1905 (Rechinger) ; Matootua, iii.1905 (Rechinger) ; Papaloloa Fall, 11. vi. 

 1905 (Rechinger) ; Vailima, 4<£?, 2 12.ii., 25. v., 8.vi.l924. 



Savaii: vii.1905 (Rechinger) ; Safune, 1 6 $$, 4.V.1924 (Bryan); 1 $, 

 21.xi.1925 ; Fagamalo, 1 1 % 3.viii.l924 ; Satupaitea, 3 $$, 10.viii.1924. 



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



Professor P. A. Buxton has contributed the following notes on the structure 

 of the larva of Deilemera alba. 



" The material consists of two mature larvae, in alcohol, collected at Malolo- 

 lelei, Upolu Island, in September 1925, from a small Composite weed, which grew 

 in gardens, and was frequently a food-plant of this species. 



General Description. — The colours in life were not noted. The larva has 

 been drawn from the specimens in alcohol by my friend Dr. V. B. Wiggles worth 

 (Text-fig. 4). The larva of this species is not as hairy as that of many Arctiidae. 

 On the dorsum of the second thoracic segment is a tuft of setae, thickly feathered 

 toward the tip, longer than the other long setae of the segment and projecting 

 forwards. With this exception all setae appear to the naked eye to be simple, 

 though under the microscope all of them are seen to be shortly feathered. All 



