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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



of mixed avellaneous and fuscous scales on the costa. Some traces of the 

 darker shading subterminally, especially near the costa. Hind wing maize 

 yellow to buff yellow, without markings, fringe paler. 



Underside : forewing maize yellow to buff yellow costally, with a heavy 

 fuscous to fuscous black ill-defined patch postmedially extending from costa to 

 vein M 2 , and a lighter fuscous shade subterminally below apex, but reaching 

 the termen. Hindwing with a small diffuse fuscous patch postmedially at costa. 



Similar to but with forewing markings in clove brown to fuscous 

 black (probably only an individual difference and not a sexual one), and without 

 the postmedial tuft of scales on the costa (a sexual distinction). The specimen 

 here described has hardly any trace of an antemedial fascia, the postmedial fascia 

 is dentate rather than crenulate, and there is a considerable amount of clove 

 brown irroration over the distal half of the wing. The fuscous shading on distal 

 half of forewing underside is more extensive than in the but as in that sex, 

 leaves a strip of the ground-colour along one-third of the costa. 



Expanse : and $,19 mm. 



Holotype $ and allotype £. Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, vii.1924 and 

 23.ii.1924 respectively. 



6. Asura pyropa, sp. n. (Plate VI, fig 11). 



Palpus orange buff streaked with scarlet, the third segment fuscous- 

 tipped. Antenna with the shaft orange buff, with one or two stray specks of 

 scarlet. Head and thorax orange buff mixed with scarlet. Abdomen warm 

 buff. Pectus, legs and underside of abdomen orange buff ; the foreleg with the 

 coxa and femur tinged with scarlet, the tibia shaded with fuscous ; the other legs 

 with the tibiae slightly infuscate distally. Forewing orange buff, blotched and 

 streaked somewhat irregularly with scarlet ; sub-basal, antemedial, medial 

 and postmedial blotches on costa ; a scarlet streak from wing-base to termen 

 through middle of cell, expanding towards the end of the cell ; interneural 

 scarlet streaks ; traces of a waved antemedial fascia and a bowed (concavity 

 basad) postmedial fascia, faintly infuscate. Fringe infuscate. Hindwing light 

 buff to pale ochraceous buff. 



Underside : forewing salmon buff tinged with scarlet towards costa. 

 Hindwing as on upper side. 



9- Similar to but with abdomen and hindwing warm buff to ochraceous 



