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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



dark purple drab, glossy anthracene green to patent blue in oblique light, the 

 pectinations bone brown. Head dark purple drab to fuscous, with the frons and 

 vertex in oblique light glossy anthracene green to patent blue, and with the 

 occipital region ochraceous orange. Thorax dark purple drab, in oblique light 

 anthracene green to dark bluish violet, glossy, edged with ochraceous orange 

 at wing-bases ; patagium and tegula ochraceous orange varying to ochraceous 

 salmon with changing light, the tegula with some of the varying dark purple 

 drab shading. Abdomen ochraceous buff above, to ochraceous orange ventrally 

 and terminally. Pectus and legs ochraceous orange, the latter with the femora 

 shaded with varying dark purple drab distally, the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi 

 dark purple drab dorsally, the hind tibia with the dark shading proximally 

 only, except for the tips of the spurs, the hind tarsus lightly shaded with the 

 same colour. Forewing (including fringe) versicolorate, dark purple drab, 

 varying with changing light through a series of greens and blues (anthracene 

 green, patent blue, Berlin blue, azurite blue to dark bluish violet), with some 

 irregular ochraceous orange longitudinal streaks at the wing-base below the costa, 

 which is finely ochraceous orange ; an elliptical ochraceous orange spot below 

 the cell just exceeding one-third of the cell-length, a second similar, but slightly 

 smaller spot filling the distal third of the cell ; faint scattered traces of the 

 ochraceous orange colour postmedially, extending to termen, a similarly coloured 

 indefinite mark on costa before the apex, and traces of the same colour at the 

 tornus. Hindwing entirely ochraceous buff to antimony yellow, with a 

 remarkable expansible brush of long, curved, spatulate hair-scales, the expanded 

 brush rising half-a-centimetre above the wing surface, and spreading over half 

 the wing. Fringe paler. 



Underside : forewing ochraceous orange, hindwing ochraceous buff, 

 deepening to ochraceous orange costally. 



Expanse : 32-35 mm. 



Neallotype tf. Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 21. iv. 1924. 

 Other material : — 



Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 3 22, 25, 26.vi.1924 ; 5 22, 25, 

 27.vi., 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; 2 2 $$, vii.1925 (Wilder); 5^, 22, 25.ii., 

 5, 7.vii.l924 ; 12 $$, 14, 22, 23.ii., 21.vi., 13.vii., 18.viii., 29.xi.1924. 



Savaii : 1,000 feet, $, 21.xi.1925. 



The type, a female, was collected by Dr. Friederichs, and is in the Natur- 

 historisches Museum, Hamburg. 



