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wings and the distal third of the abdomen suffused with fuscous. I can so far 

 find no structural differences between these somewhat striking variants and the 

 typical D. agramma, but as the variety seems prevalent I propose to give it the 

 name D. agramma ab. dolia ab. nov. 



170. Dracaenura adela, sp. nov. (Plate XV, fig. 3). 



$. Palpus fuscous, first segment and proximal half second segment white 

 ventrally. Antenna warm buff, dotted with fuscous. Head light buff to warm 

 buff. Thorax light buff, tinged with fuscous, patagium warm buff inwardly, 

 fuscous outwardly, tegula fuscous anteriorly. Abdomen light buff. Pectus 

 and venter light buff. Legs light buff, fore tibia fuscous, fore and mid femora 

 tipped with fuscous. Forewing naphthalene yellow, glossy, semi-translucent, 

 exhibiting a sort of metallic old gold appearance ; costa broadly fuscous ; a 

 fuscous dot just beyond middle of cell, and a fuscous discocellular lunule ; an 

 indistinct, straight, fuscous antemedial fascia at right angles to inner margin ; 

 a wavy fuscous postmedial fascia, its direction parallel with termen. Hindwing 

 naphthalene yellow, translucent, slightly suffused with fuscous over distal 

 third ; a fuscous discocellular lunule ; a fuscous postmedial fascia, converging 

 towards termen as it approaches anal angle. Underside similar to upperside, 

 without heavy fuscous scaling along costa. 

 Similar. 



Expanse : 23-24 mm. 



Holotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 31.xi.1924. 

 Allotype Savaii : Safune, 15.V.1924 (Bryan). 



171. Tatobotys biannulalis Walker. 



Botys biannulalis Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M., xxxiv, p. 1439, 1865. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 $, 13.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; Malololelei, 1 $, 

 28.vi.1924. 



172. Bradina semnopa Meyrick. 



Trematarcha semnopa Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lona 1 ., 1886, p. 234. 

 Samoa. 3 $$, iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). 



Upolu : Apia, 1 1 $, v., vii.1896 (de la Garde) ; 2 ?$, 13, 14.ix.1923 



(Swezey and Wilder) ; 4 <$<$, 2 $$, 27.i., ii., lO.ii., 7.iii., 4.xii.l924 ; Malololelei, 

 1 10.vii.1922 (Armstrong) ; Aleipata, 1 8.iv.l924 ; Vailima, 1 $, 14.ix.1922 



