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181. Diathrausta lypera, sp. nov, (Plate XVII, fig. 4). 



Labial palpus with third segment cartridge buff, palpus tipped with cartridge 

 buff. Antenna cartridge buff at base only. Head with lower part of frons edged 

 with cartridge buff. Foreleg with tibia outwardly white, tarsus white. Mid leg 

 with tibia whitish outwardly, tarsal segments tipped with white. Hind leg 

 with tibia and tarsus white. Forewing with termen distinctly sinuate ; a few 

 scattered whitish scales in and below middle of cell ; faint indications of a straight 

 fuscous black antemedial fascia at right angles to inner margin ; a similar post- 

 medial fascia from costa at two-thirds to inner margin ; fringe chequered with 

 whitish. Hindwing fringe chequered with whitish. Underside with traces of 

 scattered whitish scales. 



Expanse : 16 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Malololelei, 25.iv.1924. 



182. Piletocera cyclospila Meyrick. 

 Diplotyla cyclospila Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 248. 



Piletocera cyclospila Meyrick, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Ahad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., lxxxv, 

 p. 430, 1910. 



Piletocera cyclospila Meyrick, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 146, 1915. 



Samoa. 3 including type (Mathew) ; 2 gg, 2 $$, iii.-viii.1921 



(O'Connor). 



Upolu : Apia, 1 g, 1889 (Lister) ; 1 13.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 

 1 27.ii.1924 ; Malololelei, 1 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; 3 vii., 7.xi.l925 

 (Wilder); 10 23 $$, 22-25.ii., 21.vi., 8, 9.vii.l924, 21, 22.iv.1925; 

 Vailima, 1 14.ix.1922 (Armstrong) ; 1 12.xii.1925 ; Utumapu, Lanutoo Berg 

 (800 m.), Malifa, 2 <J<J, 2 23.vi., 6.viii.l905 (Kechinger). 



Savaii : Safune, 1 1 lowlands to 1,000 feet, 1. v. 1924 (Bryan) ; 2 

 2,000-4,000 feet, 3.V.1924 (Bryan) ; Tuasivi, 1 $, 8.ii.l924. 



Tutuila : 1 (Kellers) ; Pago Pago, 14 51 $?, 14.ix., x.1923, i., ii.1924, 

 17, 20, 22.iii.1926 (Steffany) ; 1 $, 12.viii.1925. 



183. Piletocera steffanyi, sp. nov. (Plate XVII, figs. 1,2). 



Palpus fuscous degraded to drab on inner side and ventrally. Antenna 

 with basal segment swollen, a kink at middle with a tuft of scales directed distad, 

 another kink at three-fourths, with a similar tuft of scales ; fuscous with a patch 

 of drab grey at one-fourth. Head fuscous and drab. Thorax fuscous. 



