HETEROCERA. 



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lateral stripe at middle. Legs white ; fore coxa, femur and tibia dorsally 

 fuscous black, mid leg fuscous black at femoro-tibial and tibio-tarsal joints only, 

 hind leg fuscous black at tibio-tarsal joint. 



Forewing white, with a brand on costa near middle, and with somewhat 

 irregularly wavy fasciae parallel with termen ; sub-basal fascia orange buff out- 

 lined with fuscous black ; antemedial fuscous black ; postmedial white tinged 

 with buff yellow near costa and between cell and inner margin, outlined in 

 fuscous black ; subterminal fascia fuscous black, with a projection to middle of 

 termen ; along the termen a fairly wide strip of buff yellow, interrupted below 

 wing-apex, at middle and at tornus with fuscous black. Hindwing colouring 

 and pattern similar. Underside white, with only traces of the upperside pattern 

 marked out in fuscous black. 



Expanse : 16 mm. 



Holotype^. Tutuila : Pago Pago, 12.viii.1925. 



167. Oligostigma villidalis Walker. 



Oligostigma villidalis Walker, List. Lep. Ins. B. M., xvii, p. 435, 1859. 



Upolu : Vailima, 2 $?, 3.vi.l924, 2.U925. 

 Tutuila : Leone, ll.viii.1925. 



168. Parthenodes eugethes, sp. n. (Plate XV, fig. 7). 



Palpus white, a trace of fuscous dorsally. Antenna honey yellow, shaft 

 white-scaled, dotted with fuscous. Head white, fuscous hair-scales occipitally. 

 Thorax xanthine orange, patagium with outer half white, inner half xanthine 

 orange. Abdomen (tergum) white, a dash of xanthine orange at middle of first 

 segment, a semi-circular patch of xanthine orange on second segment distally, 

 remaining segments, except the terminal two, shaded with old gold. Pectus and 

 venter white. Legs white, fore and mid legs with distal half of femur, proximal 

 half of tibia, proximal half of tarsal first segment, and the whole of tarsal seg- 

 ments two to five, fuscous ; fuscous on fore tibia extends down entire outer side. 

 Forewing white, glossy ; sub-basal and antemedial fasciae xanthine orange, 

 forming a Y-shaped figure across wing-base, antemedial deeply bowed (con- 

 cavity terminad) ; a large xanthine orange reniform spot at end of cell ; a 

 curiously shaped postmedial fascia (cf. figure), xanthine orange edged in places 



