HETEROCERA. 



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distinct ; fringe drab grey. Underside similar, with the dark marking in hindwing 

 cell more pronounced. 

 Expanse : 26 mm. 



$. Darker, more inclined to fuscous with markings more emphasised. 

 Expanse : 26 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Apia, 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 

 Allotype Upolu : Apia, 30.iv.1924. 

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



Upolu : Apia, 2 $$, 13, 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 1 3 7.ii., 

 30.v., 1, 3.vi.l924. 



Tutuila: 1 $, on board S.Y. " Valhalla," 22.iv.1903 (Nicoll) ; Pago Pago, 

 1 2 14.ix.1923 ; i.1924 (Steffany) ; 1 <£: 1$, 22.iii.1926 (Judd). 



[Piletocera vestigialis Warren.] 



Diplotyla vestigialis Warren, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), xvii, p. 144, 1896. 



Piletocera vestigialis Warren, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturiv. Kl., lxxxv, 

 p. 430, 1910 ; Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 146, 1915. 



Samoa. 1 specimen (Reincke). 



Upolu : Malifa, $$, 6-28.vi., 7.viii.l905 (Rechinger). 



I believe that these specimens recorded by Rebel belong to the new species 

 described above, P. recJiingeri, as I cannot reconcile the latter with the descrip- 

 tion of any known species, but it certainly bears a resemblance to a drawing 

 I have seen of P. vestigialis. 



185. Piletocera signiferalis Wallengren. 



Isopteryx signiferalis Wallengren, Wien. Ent. Monatschr., iv, p. 175, 1860. 



Piletocera signiferalis Wallengren, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Natunv. Kl., 

 lxxxv, p. 430, 1910. 



Piletocera signiferalis Wallengren, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 146, 1915. 

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



Upolu : Apia, 2 $$, 18.V.1922, 4.V.1924 (Armstrong) ; 4 5 25.i., 

 5, lO.ii., 6, 8, 22.v., 9.vi., l.vii.1924. ; Malololelei, 1 29.xi.1924 ; Aleipata 

 1 cJ, 2 $$, 5, 7.iv.l924 ; Motootua, 1 ^ (Rechinger) ; Nuutele, 1 8.iv.l924. 



Savaii : Safune, 1 30.iv.1924 (Bryan) ; Tuasivi, 3 8.ii.l924. 



Tutuila : 1 <$ (Kellers) ; Pago Pago, 1 $, ii.1924 (StefEany) ; 1 $, 9.ix.l923 

 (Swezey) ; Amauli, 1 $, 6.ix.l923 (Swezey). 



