266 INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



178. Bradina modestalis Lederer. 



Erilita modestalis Lederer, W ien. Ent. Monatschr., vii, p. 426, pi. 16, fig. 3, 1863. 

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



179. Bradina neuralis Hampson. 



Bradina neuralis Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xix, p. 4, 1907. 



Bradina neuralis Hampson, Eebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 135, 1915. 



Upolu : Apia, 3 4 29.iii., l.vi.1924 ; Vailima, 5 1 $, 24.V.1924, 

 12.xii.1925 ; Mt. Vaea, 2 1 $, 1,100 feet, 25.iv.1924 (Bryan). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 <$ (type), v. 1896 (de la Garde) ; Afono Trail, 1 

 6.ix.l923 (Swezey). 



180. Bradina parbattoides, sp. n. (Plate VI, fig. 26). 



and $. Palpus fuscous, first and second segments light buff proximally. 

 Antenna warm buff, dotted with fuscous. Head fuscous, light buff occipitally. 

 Thorax and abdomen light buff shaded with fuscous. Pectus fuscous in front, 

 otherwise light buff shaded with fuscous, venter light buff. Legs fuscous, 

 tibiae and tarsal segments tipped with light buff, hind tibia proximally light buff 

 as well as at tip. Forewing glossy, semi-translucent, tinged with naphthalene 

 yellow, heavily mottled with fuscous with a blackish purple sheen, leaving 

 prominent fasciae of ground-colour ; a short, broad, wavy antemedial fascia ; 

 a prominent black spot in middle of cell, and another, slightly larger and almost 

 reniform, at end of cell ; postmedial fascia broad, wavy ; veins streaked ter- 

 minally with naphthalene yellow ; fringe fuscous with naphthalene yellow streaks 

 interneurally and at vein ends. Hindwing naphthalene yellow, shaded distally 

 with fuscous, but leaving a wavy broad postmedial fascia of ground-colour, 

 the fuscous shading before it being very slight ; a fuscous discocellular lunule : 

 fringe like that of forewing. Underside similar to upperside, smoother. 

 Expanse : 36 mm. 



Holotype <£. Upolu : Malololelei, 18.vi.1924. 

 Allotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 24.vi.1924. 

 Paratype $. Upolu: Malololelei, 9.vii. 1924. 



