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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



The genus Scoparia has representatives in the Hawaiian Islands and Fiji, 

 but not in Samoa so far as we at present know. 



As there are some cases in which subspecies or species closely related to 

 Samoan species or subspecies are not mentioned in the text, the two following 

 tables are inserted to show at a glance what is already known, and at the same 

 time to indicate certain lacunae in our knowledge. In the case of Callopistria 

 meridionalis and Striglina oecia the expression "unnamed" refers to British 

 Museum material not yet fully investigated but which the author has little doubt 

 can be classified in this way. 



Samoan Species with a Subspecies in 



Tonga 



Fiji 



Deilemera mundipicta samoensis Tarns . 

 Callopistria meridionalis nauticorum Tarns 

 Rivula (volynesiana Hampson ?) . 

 Oxyodes ochreata samoana Tams . 

 Deilephila placida steffanyi Clark 

 Hoploscopa astrapias nauticorum Tams 



unnamed 



R. polynesiana Hamps. 



D. m. fasciata Walk, 

 unnamed 



O.o. tany melees Tams 

 D. P. torenia Druce 

 H. a. astrapias Meyr. 









Samoan Species with a Closely Related 

 Species (oe Subspecies ?) in 



Tonga 



Fiji 



Paectes canescens Tams .... 

 Stictoptera hepatica Rebel .... 

 Barasa rebeli Tams ..... 

 Anua samoensis Tams .... 

 Nagia homotima Tams .... 

 Tiridata samoana Butler .... 

 Striglina oecia Tams ..... 

 Piletocera albescens Rebel .... 



Authaeretis exaereta Tams .... 

 Hyalobathra wilderi Tams .... 

 Exeristis pollosta Tams 1 

 Exeristis catharia Tams V . 

 Exeristis asynopta Tams J 



P. cristatrix Guen. 



A. tongaensis Hamps. 

 N. monastica Hamps. 



S. vavauensis Hamps. 

 E. asyphela Meyr. 



P. cristatrix Guen. 

 S. vitiensis Hamps. 

 B. tetragramma Hamps. 

 A. tongaensis Hamps. 



T. vitiensis Butl. 

 unnamed. 

 Nacoleia allocosma 



Meyr. 



A. eridora Meyr. 

 H. illectalis Walk. 



Attention may be directed to those genera which show the most interesting 

 developments in Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. These are Diftychofliora in the 

 Crambinae, Dracaenura, Bradina and Piletocera in the Hydrocampinae, and 

 Margaronia and Exeristis in the Pyraustinae. These, it will be noted, all belong 



