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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



structure of the female genitalia is so utterly different that I prefer to keep the 

 two genera separate. An examination of the male genitalia is necessary, and 

 this must wait until we can obtain males of Hyphantidium sericarium Scott, 

 of which we possess only three females, although it is a pest in Australia. 



149. Oligochroa leucophaeella Zeller. 



Pempelia (Salebria) leucophaeella Zeller, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxviii, p. 390, 1867. 

 Oligochroa leucophaeella Zeller, Ragonot, Rom. Mem., vii, p. 378, pi. 12, fig. 15, 1893. 

 Oligochroa leucophaeella Zeller, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 134, 1915. 



Upolu: 1 $ (Friederichs). 



Not represented in the material under review. 



150. Etiella zinckenella Treitschke. 



Phycis zinckenella Treitschke, Schmett. Eur., ix, 1, p. 201, 1832. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 <J, 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 

 The larva damages various Leguminosae. 



151. Calguia defiguralis Walker (Plate XIII, fig. 7). 



Calguia defiguralis Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M., xxvii, p. 83, 1863. 

 Upolu : Apia, 1 <$, 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



152. Hypsipyla swezeyi, sp. n. (Plate XIII, figs. 8, 9). 



$. Fuscous, sparsely streaked with pale drab grey. Markings so indis- 

 tinct as to make their accurate description difficult. A wavy antemedial fascia 

 of pale drab grey scales, emphasised by narrow strips of plain fuscous ground- 

 colour on each side ; a subterminal series of fuscous dashes between the veins, 

 each edged distally with pale drab grey scales ; each vein with an indistinct 

 streak of pale drab grey close below it before the termen. Hindwing pale drab 

 grey, lightly edged with fuscous on costa and at termen ; a drab line through the 

 fringe. 



Expanse : 27 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Apia, 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



