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line through it. Hindwing light buff, heavily suffused with fuscous. Underside 

 fuscous to fuscous black, except a broad strip along proximal two-thirds of costa 

 and another along inner margin of fore wing, and also along proximal third of 

 hindwing. 



Expanse : 20 mm. 



$. Similar, but generally less rich in colour ; wings somewhat larger, costa 

 less bowed ; chief colour more vinaceous brown than chocolate. 

 Expanse : 23-24 mm. 



Holotype £ and allotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 21. iv. 1925. 

 Paratypes. Upolu : Malololelei, 1 $, 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; 7 5 

 22, 24, 25.ii., vii.1924, 21.iv.1925. 



143. Cryptoblabes proleucella Hampson. 

 Cryptoblabes proleucella Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iv, p. 105, 1896. 



Manua : Tau, 1 $, 27.ix.1923, ex cocoon on cane leaf (Swezey). 



Much more material is needed of this and other Phycitinae. There is a 

 species TJiiallela endochralis Hampson, which, if it really differs from Cryptoblabes 

 proleucella, is so like it that with the small amount of material available I find 

 it difficult to say to which the Samoan specimen belongs. 



144. Cryptoblabes elaeothrepta, sp. n. (Plate XIV, figs. 7, 8). 



Vinaceous cinnamon, legs and forewings shaded with fuscous to fuscous 

 black. Forewing with a fuscous black patch on costa at base, the distal half of 

 the wing shaded with drab to fuscous, with some fuscous black irroration ; inner 

 edge of shaded area deeply bowed (concavity basad) ; a break in the shading 

 subterminally, leaving a slightly wavy fascia of ground-colour ; a terminal 

 series of ill-defined fuscous black interneural dots ; fringe vinaceous buff. 

 Hindwing and underside of both wings vinaceous buff. 

 Expanse : 20 mm. 



Holotype $. Upolu : Apia, 19.X.1924. 

 Paratype $. Upolu : Mulifanua, 9.vi.l924. 



145. Cryptoblabes trabeata Meyrick. 



Cryptoblabes trabeata Meyrick, Exot. Microlep., iv, p. 239, 1932. 

 Upolu : Apia, 2 1889 (Lister) ; Malololelei, 3 1 $, 23, 24, 



