HETEROCERA. 



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26.vi., 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; 6 5 23, 25.ii., 25, 28.vi., vii.1924, 

 21.iv.1925. 



Tutuila : E. end of island, 1,070 feet, 1 21.vi.1918 (Kellers). 



This species resembles C. ferrealis Lower (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1901, 

 p. 663), as far as I am able to judge by a coloured sketch in the British Museum 

 collection. We have no specimens. 



146. Cryptoblabes plagioleuca Turner. 



Cryptoblabes plagioleuca Turner, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xviii, p. 150, 1904. 

 Upolu : Apia, 1 13.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



147. Cryptoblabes spodopetina, sp. n. (Plate XIII, figs. 10, 11). 



$. Palpus vinaceous russet shaded with fuscous and irrorated with pale 

 drab grey. Antenna fuscous fringed with pale drab grey. Head and thorax 

 vinaceous russet. Abdomen brownish olive. Pectus pale drab grey with some 

 fuscous intermixed, fuscous in front. Venter white proximally to pale drab 

 grey distally, terminal tuft ochraceous buff. Foreleg fuscous, midleg vinaceous 

 russet, hind leg pale drab grey shaded with brownish olive. Fore wing vinaceous 

 russet, densely dusted over with pale drab grey. Hindwing brownish olive to 

 fuscous. Underside brownish olive to fuscous. 



Expanse : 20 mm. 



Holotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 25.ii.1924. 



148. Assara albicostalis Walker. 



Assara albicostalis Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M., xxvii, p. 80, 1863. 



Hyphantidium albicostale Walker, Hampson in Ragonot, Rom. Mem., viii, p. 73, pi. 25, fig. 14, 

 1901. 



Hyphantidium albicostale Walker, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jakrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 134. 1915 



Samoa. 1 specimen (Henniger). 



Not represented in the collections before me. 



I feel some doubt as to the generic status of A. albicostalis as interpreted by 

 Hampson and Rebel, who sink the genus Assara under Hyphantidium. I am 

 not sure that the venation alone differs sufficiently to justify separation, but the 



