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188. Hoploscopa astrapias nauticorum, subsp. n. 

 (Plate VI, fig. 21 ; Plate XVIII, fig. 4). 



Hoploscopa astrapias Meyrick, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 136, pi. 1, 

 fig. 12, 1915, non Meyrick. 



<$ and $. Differs from the typical subspecies (Hoploscopa astrapias astrapias 

 Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 268)— Plate XVIII, fig. 2— noticeably 

 in the following two features : 



Lacks " a short white or yellow median streak from base to one-fifth " 

 (Meyrick) ; in its place, there is a triangular patch of scales, warm sepia with a 

 violet sheen. 



The " snow-white sinuate line, sometimes reduced to a row of dots, from 

 costa close before apex to inner margin at four-fifths, terminated beneath by a 

 short streak on the submedian fold " (Meyrick), takes, in the Samoan sub- 

 species, the form of a thin dentate whitish fascia, accentuated distad by warm 

 sepia shading. 



Holotype Upolu : Malololelei, 24.ii.1924. 



Allotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, 21.iv.1925. 



Paratypes. Upolu : Apia, 1 x.1925 ; Malololelei, 2 2 iii.1923, 

 2.vii., 18.viii.1924 (Armstrong) ; 4 10 22, 24, 25.ii., 22.iii., 24, 28. vi., 

 18.viii., 29.xi.1924, 21.iv., 21.ix.1925. 



In September, 1930, Miss L. E. Cheesman took on the island of Tanna, in 

 the New Hebrides, a series of what appears to be another subspecies of //. 

 astrapias, intermediate between the Samoan and the Fijian subspecies (cf. 

 Plate XVIII, figs. 2, 3, 4). It lacks the sharply defined subterminal fascia 

 of the typical subspecies, but this fascia is constantly more prominently white 

 than in H. a. nauticorum, and exhibits a similar dentate appearance. I propose 

 to call it Hoploscopa astrapias anamesa, subsp. n. (Plate XVIII, fig. 3). 



189. Clupeosoma lampra, sp. nov. (Plate XV, fig. 9). 



$. Palpus chestnut brown, first segment and base of second segment 

 ventrally, white. Antenna honey yellow, shaft with warm buff scaling, dotted 

 with fuscous. Head light buff, lower edge of frons ochraceous orange. Thorax 

 ochraceous orange. Abdomen warm buff. Pectus warm buff, some white, 

 edged below with fuscous, in front. Venter warm buff. Forewing ochraceous 



