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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Abdomen (tergum) fuscous, some warm buff laterally, distal third swollen, white 

 to cartridge buff, with bushy extrusible terminal tuft. Pectus light buff, with 

 drab to fuscous in front. Venter light buff to cinnamon. Legs fuscous, with 

 some light buff on inner side, tibiae and tarsal segments tipped with light buff. 

 Forewing with anal vein deeply bowed (convexity costa), and inner margin 

 modified, bearing a curved spreading tuft of fine hair-scales on the underside ; 

 fuscous with a blackish purple sheen ; a round fuscous black spot in cell at two- 

 thirds, a small patch of warm buff, then a large subquadrate fuscous black spot 

 followed by another warm buff patch ; a medial shade running from the larger 

 spot to the inner margin ; an erratic fuscous black postmedial fascia edged distad 

 with warm buff (for its course, see figure). Hindwing light buff heavily suffused 

 with fuscous on distal third, less heavily below cell along inner margin, with 

 traces elsewhere ; a large ill-defined spot on discocellulars ; postmedial fascia 

 with a course somewhat similar to that of forewing postmedial fascia ; termen 

 edged with light buff ; fringe fuscous drab grey distally. Underside fuscous 

 and light buff, markings prominent and similar in distribution to those of 

 upperside. 



Similar, but without modified forewing inner margin and distal part of 

 abdomen. Expanse : 30 mm. 



Holotype Tutuila : Pago Pago, i.1924 (Steffany). 

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



Paratypes. Upolu : Malololelei, 1 20. v. 1922 (Armstrong) ; 1 24.ii.1924, 

 21.iv.1926. 



Tutuila : 1 $ (Kellers) ; Pago Pago, <$, 1 i.1924 (Steffany). 



184. Piletocera rechingeri, sp. n. (Plate XVII, fig. 3). 



Palpus with first segment white, second segment hair brown dorsally, 

 white ventrally, third segment hair brown. Antenna hair brown, a tuft of 

 scales directed distad before the middle and another after. Head and thorax 

 hair brown. Abdomen hair brown inclined to fuscous. Pectus drab grey and 

 white. Venter light buff. Legs cartridge buff, femora and tibiae shaded with 

 drab grey. Forewing hair brown ; a round white spot in cell at two-thirds, a 

 slightly larger oval white spot at discocellulars, with a hint of darker colour 

 before the spots ; postmedial fascia light buff, indistinct (for course cf. figure) ; 

 fringe drab grey. Hindwing hair brown, with a hint of darker colour at the end 

 of the cell ; postmedial fascia of the same type as that on forewing, but even less 



