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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



(Armstrong) ; Tuaefu, 1 1 16.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; Leulumoega, 

 1 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



Savaii : Salailua, 1 <j> 12.viii.1924 ; Safune, 1 l.v.1924 (Bryan) ; 

 Tuasivi, 1 1 $, 8.ii.l924. 



Tutuila : Leone Ed., 1 ?, 22.iii.1926 (Judd). 



173. Bradina leucura Hampson. 



Bradina leucura Hampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 200. 



Bradina leucura Hampson, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jalirb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 151, 1915. 



Samoa. 1 $ (Friederichs) . 



Upolu : Malifa, 1 specimen (Rechinger). 



Not represented in the collections before me. 



174. Bradina chlorionalis, sp. nov. (Plate XV, fig. 4). 



Palpus fuscous, first segment and proximal half of second segment white 

 ventrally. Antenna buff yellow. Head fuscous. Thorax buff yellow shaded 

 with fuscous on tegula anteriorly. Abdomen (tergum) buff yellow, anal tuft 

 light buff. Pectus and venter buff yellow. Legs buff yellow, with some drab 

 shading on femoro- tibial joints, more extensive on foreleg. Forewing glossy, 

 with basal fourth buff yellow, remainder fuscous black with a blackish purple 

 sheen. Hindwing similarly coloured, but with the buff yellow extending down 

 inner margin to anal angle. Underside buff yellow, forewing with distal three- 

 fourths degraded as a result of the showing through of dark colour of upperside ; 

 hindwing with this effect less pronounced. 

 Similar. 

 Expanse : 30 mm. 



Holotype Savaii : Fagamalo, 7.viii.l924. 

 Allotype Savaii : Safune, l.v.1924 (Bryan). 

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

 Savaii : Safune, 3 4 30.iv., l.v.1924 (Bryan) ; Fagamalo, 4 

 7.viii.l924. 



175. Bradina pycnolopha, sp. nov. (Plate XV, fig. 1). 



Palpus fuscous, first segment and proximal half of second segment white 

 ventrally. Antenna light buff. Head with frons fuscous, vertex light buff. 



