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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



186. Piletocera xanthosoma Meyrick. 

 Strepsimela xanthosoma Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 249. 



Piletocera xanthosoma Meyrick, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., lxxxv, 

 p. 430, 1910. 



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

 Samoa. 1 ^, 1 type and allotype (Mathew). 



Upolu : Apia, 1 25.ii.1922 (Armstrong) ; Malololelei, 4 2 $$, 15, 

 22.ii., 12.iii., 5.vii.l924, 22.iii., 21.iv.1925 ; Mt. Vaea, 1 <£, 1,100 feet, 25.iv.1924 

 (Bryan) ; Tuaefu, 3 $$, 16.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



Savaii : Safune, 1 2 l.v.1924 (Bryan). 



Tutuila: 1 1 $ (Kellers) ; Pago Pago, 1 $, v.1896 (de la Garde); 1 <J, 

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

 Manua : Tau, 2 27.ix.1923 (Swezey). 



187. Piletocera albescens Rebel (Plate XVI, figs. 10, 11 ; Text-fig. 7). 

 Piletocera albescens Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 135, pi. 1, fig. 11, 1915. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 <$ (Henniger), 1 $ (Friederichs) ; Malololelei, 3 gg, 1 



?, 24, 25, 27.vi., 2.vii.l924 

 (Armstrong) ; 10 20 

 $$, 22-25 ii., 22.iii., 25.iv., 

 3,21, 23, 24.vi., 5-7, 13.vii., 

 6, 12.viii.1924, 21, 22.iv. 

 1925. 



Text-fig. 7 shows vein 

 R 2 free from the cell, and 

 not stalked with R3 + R4, 

 as is usual in the Hydro- 

 campinae. It is for this 

 reason that a closely allied 

 species occurring in Fiji, 

 has been assigned to the 

 genus Nacoleia by Meyrick 

 (Nacoleia alloco sma 

 Meyrick, subfamily 

 Text-fig. 1 .—Piletocera albescens Rebel. Wing venation. PYRAUSTINAE) . 



