HETEROCERA. 



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and tegula shaded with liver brown. Abdomen ochraceous buff. Pectus and 

 venter warm buff, with orange-buff scaling at the claspers. Legs vinaceous 

 cinnamon shaded with drab, cinnamon and fuscous ; mid femur and tibia stout 

 the latter fringed broadly with drab scales ; hind tibia with a long ochre red 

 brush of hair-scales from proximal third, distal two-thirds broadly fringed with 

 long pinkish cinnamon scales. Forewing vinaceous cinnamon, irrorated and 

 shaded with liver brown ; an antemedial ridge of liver brown raised scales ; an 

 oblique, bowed, liver brown discocellular streak ; a prominent crenulate sub- 

 terminal fascia roughly parallel with termen ; a terminal series of interneural 

 liver brown dots ; fringe cinnamon. Hindwing ochraceous buff to pale orange 

 yellow, glossy. Underside both fore and hindwings ochraceous buff, glossy, 

 forewing with proximal half strongly shaded with fuscous, hindwing with 

 pinkish cinnamon shading on costa. 

 Expanse : 20 mm. 



Holotype^. Upolu : Malololelei, 22.ii.1924. 

 Paratype Tutuila : Pago Pago, x.1923 (Steffany). 



142. Nephopteryx ceratistes, sp. n. 



(Plate VI, fig. 24 ; Plate XIII, figs. 3, 4 ; Plate XIV, figs. 1,3). 



Palpus large, hollowed out to receive tufted maxillary palpus, reaching 

 above vertex of head, pinkish buff shaded with chocolate. Antenna russet, 

 the shaft pinkish buff shaded with chocolate, at the base of the shaft swollen 

 and slightly distorted. Head warm buff, frons with a curved horn-shaped tuft 

 of flattened scales reaching above the vertex. Thorax chocolate. Abdomen 

 warm buff. Pectus warm buff, with a long narrow (1 mm. X 0-25 mm.) patch 

 of fuscous black scales on the mesothorax, immediately below base of hindwings. 

 Venter warm buff. Legs pinkish buff, shaded with chocolate. Forewings with 

 costa deeply bowed ; chocolate, with a few fuscous black scales intermixed ; 

 and sometimes massed just beyond antemedial fascia ; an oblique pinkish buff 

 antemedial fascia from costa at one-fourth to inner margin at one-third ; an 

 ill-defined, somewhat triangular area (base on costa, apex on inner margin) of 

 pinkish buff scaling, degraded in varying degrees by intermixture with chocolate ; 

 an irregularly serrated pinkish buff subterminal fascia with a sharp kink below 

 costa, then roughly parallel with termen ; fringe pinkish buff with a chocolate 



