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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



fascia, with the otherwise fuscous fringe white at that point. Hindwing fuscous, 

 with four fuscous black bars and a subterminal fascia similar to that on forewing. 

 Underside light buff up to subterminal fascia, the white and fuscous black 

 markings more pronounced ; fringes white. 



Expanse : 8 mm. 



c£, Similar. 



Holotype ?. Upolu : Malololelei, 28.vi.1924. 



Allotype^. Tutuila : Amauli, 7.ix.l923 (Swezey). 



Paratopes. Upolu : Malololelei, 3 $$, 20, 28.vi.1924. 



The material of the species of Baeoptila in our collections is insufficient to 

 make possible a proper investigation of the genus. The Samoan species here 

 described lacks one more radial vein than is the case in the type of the genus, 

 B. selenias Turner, Queensland, and in B. albipunctalis Warren, Assam and 

 Ceylon. 



165. Ambia tendicularis Kebel. 



Ambia tendicularis Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 135, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1915. 

 Ambia chrysogramma Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xix, p. 459, 1917. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 $ (Henniger) ; 1 $ (Friederichs) ; 2 31.V.1924 ; 

 Malololelei, 1 <j>, 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; Vailima, 1 8.vi.l924. 



Savaii : Safune, 1 $ 30.iv.1924 (Bryan) ; Fagamalo, 2 3.viii.l924, 

 xi.1925 ; Tuasivi, 1 1 9.ii.l924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 <J, 1 $, v. 189 6 (de la Garde) ; 1 $, 9.ix.l923 (Swezey) ; 

 I 14.xii.1925. ; Amauli, 1 9.ix.l923 (Swezey). 



166. Ambia schistochaeta, sp. n. (Plate XV, fig. 8). 



(J. Palpus white, tinged with orange buff, the second segment shaded 

 dorsally and distally with fuscous black, the third with a trace of fuscous black 

 ventrally at two-thirds. Antenna " schistochaetous," i.e., with each segment 

 bearing a pair of plumose pectinations on each side, cartridge buff, a trace of 

 fuscous black at base. Head white, frons orange buff with fuscous black shading. 

 Thorax white, anterior half shaded with fuscous black, tegula tipped with 

 fuscous black behind as well as in front, and some fuscous black shading on 

 metathorax. Abdomen (tergum) white shaded with orange buff and slight 

 traces of fuscous black. Pectus and venter white, the venter with an oblique 



