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buff shaded with drab and fuscous. Pectus, venter and legs warm buff, streaked 

 with claret brown. Forewing claret brown with some fuscous black irroration ; 

 a prominent, wedge-shaped dash, warm buff degraded with claret brown, 

 accentuated by fuscous black shading on each side, from costa tornad, its point 

 only just reaching below lower margin of cell ; a fuscous black discocellular 

 streak ; a distinct, but ill-defined subterminal fascia parallel with termen, 

 consisting of irregular pinkish buff dots on the veins, accentuated before and 

 beyond by fuscous black streaks on veins ; from costa at the subterminal fascia 

 there is a diffuse fuscous black shade directed back towards the middle of the 

 inner margin, which it fails to reach ; a fine fuscous black terminal line ; fringe 

 claret brown, fuscous edged. Hindwing light buff, lightly suffused distally 

 with fuscous, and streaked over its whole area with sparsely distributed long 

 claret-brown scales (narrow, broader distally), all directed terminad. Underside 

 light buff, lightly shaded with fuscous. 

 Expanse : 16 mm. 



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

 Paratypes. Upolu : Malololelei, 1 <J, 25.ii.1924. 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 <J, 14.ix.1923 (Steffany). 



Pyralinae. 

 160. Pyralis pictalis Curtis. 

 Asopia pictalis Curtis, Brit. Entom., descr. and pi. no. 503, 1834. 

 Upolu : Apia, 1 21. ii. 1925, bred from fowl-house refuse. 



161. Pyralis manihotalis Guenee. 



Pyralis manihotalis Guenee, Spec. Gen., Lep., viii, p. 121, 1854. 



Pyralis manihotalis Guenee, Kebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 135, 1915. 

 Samoa. 1 <$ (Henniger). 



Upolu : Apia, 4 ii., 16, 17.iii.1925, bred from fowl-house refuse. 



Hydrocampinae. 



162. Nymphula foedalis Guenee. 



Isopteryx foedalis Guenee, Spec. Gen., Lep., viii, p. 228, pi. 4, fig. 7, 1854. 

 Nymphula foedalis Guenee, Hampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 140. 



Samoa. 1 & 1 iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). 



Upolu : Malololelei, 1 £, 25.ii.1924. 



