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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



orange ; a slight fuscous mark on anal vein at one third, and another at middle 

 of inner margin ; a fuscous discocellular streak ; a fuscous postmedial fascia, 

 obtusely dentate basad on veins, almost parallel with termen from costa to vein 

 M 2 , then bowed (concavity basad) to vein Cu 2 , then straight to tornus crossing 

 anal vein at right angles ; termen marked at vein ends with fuscous ; fringe 

 fuscous, streaked with warm buff. Hindwing pale orange yellow, shaded 

 beyond the cell, from apex to vein Cu 2 , with ochraceous orange ; a fuscous 

 postmedial fascia almost straight and converging toward termen from vein M 2 

 to just below vein Cu 2 , here curved slightly basad before ending. Underside 

 pale to light orange yellow. 

 Expanse : 22 mm. 



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



190. Clupeosoma photina, sp. nov. (Plate XV, fig. 10). 



Palpus fuscous black with a blackish green blue sheen, first segment 

 and base of second segment ventraliy, white. Antenna honey yellow, shaft 

 clothed with warm buff scales. Head with vertex primrose yellow, frons car- 

 tridge buff edged below with fuscous black. Thorax primrose yellow tinged 

 with orange yellow, patagium and tegula edged outwardly in front with fuscous 

 black with a blackish green blue sheen. Abdomen light to warm buff. Pectus 

 warm buff with some white on it in front. Venter warm buff. Foreleg with 

 femur light yellow, tibia fuscous black with a dash of white proximally, and 

 tipped with white, tarsus with first segment white, rest warm buff ; mid leg 

 with femur warm buff, tibia white with a light orange yellow longitudinal streak 

 edged inwardly on proximal half with fuscous black, tarsus warm buff with 

 a little white. Forewing light orange yellow, deeper tinted round the margins, 

 costal margin broadly edged with fuscous black with a blackish purple sheen ; 

 a fuscous black dot at middle of upper margin of cell merging into costal stripe, 

 and a larger, subtriangular spot on discocellulars also touching costal stripe ; 

 a postmedial series of fuscous black dots (on veins) , further from termen at costa 

 than at inner margin, the first one or two not entirely separate and distinctly 

 set basad. Hindwing light orange yellow, deeper tinted beyond the postmedial 

 series of fuscous black dots lying on veins M x to Cu 2 . Underside light orange 

 yellow. 



Expanse : 22 mm. 



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



