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153. Rhodophaea acrobasella Rebel. 



Rhodophaea acrobasella Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 134, pi. 1, fig. 10, 

 1915. 



Upolu : Apia, several x., at light (Friederichs) ; Malololelei, 1 $, 

 25.vi.1924. 



Epipaschiinae. 

 154. Locastra ardua Swinhoe. 



Locastra ardua Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), ix, p. 181, 1902. 



Locastra drucei Bethune-Baker, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905, p. 94, pi. 8, fig. 8. 



Upolu : Malololelei, 1 $, 21. iv. 1925. 



155. Odontopaschia stephanuchra, sp. n. 

 (Plate XI, figs. 9, 10 ; Plate XIII, fig. 5). 



c£. Palpus warm buff, third segment on inner side tipped with fuscous. 

 Antenna stout at base, tapering distally, a small backwardly and inwardly 

 directed hook at base of shaft, honey yellow, the shaft with warm buff scales. 

 Head citrine with a few olivaceous black scales. Thorax citrine, the tegulae 

 with some long olivaceous black scales behind, metathorax with some ferruginous 

 scales. Abdomen, pectus and venter warm buff. Legs warm buff, with some 

 fuscous shading, most pronounced on tarsi. Forewing with proximal two- 

 thirds citrine mixed with fuscous and ferruginous, distal third warm buff with 

 some scattered citrine, fuscous and ferruginous scaling ; a crenate warm buff 

 antemedial fascia, broad and with indications of citrine and fuscous intermixture ; 

 on the inner margin before it a prominent tuft of olivaceous black scales with a 

 brilliant bronze sheen ; in the middle of the wing, its straight edge lying 

 obliquely in the cell not quite parallel with costa, a prominent tuft of olivaceous 

 black scales, with a purple sheen ; the body of the tuft is of flat broad raised 

 scales, from under which arise long narrow scales, the proximal ones warm buff, 

 the distal ones olivaceous black ; at upper angle of cell another spreading tuft 

 of long raised, olivaceous black scales. Hindwing light buff, lightly shaded 

 with fuscous. Underside light buff, with scattered fuscous shading, the hind- 

 wing with a fuscous spot on discocellulars. 



Expanse : 22 mm. 



Holotype $ and paratype Upolu : Apia, 1,000 feet, x.1925. 



