HETEROCERA. 



273 



Pyraustinae. 



191. Sufetula choreutalis Snellen. 



Pseudochoreutes choreutalis Snellen, Tijdschr. v. Ent., xxiii, p. 202, 1880 ; xxvi, pi. 6, figs. 8, 8a, 

 1883. 



Samoa. 1 1920 (O'Connor). 



Upolu : 1 23.vi.1924 ; Apia, 3 ii., 28.iv.1924, iv.1925. 



192. Sufetula hemiophthalma Meyrick (Plate XVII, fig. 7). 



Diplopseustis hemiophlhalma Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1884, p. 286. 



<§. Palpus cartridge buff, second segment shaded with clove brown. 

 Antenna light buff with traces of clove brown. Head, thorax, abdomen, pectus 

 and venter cartridge buff to light buff, with sometimes a trace of clove brown 

 irroration, particularly at middle of venter. Legs cartridge buff, with clove 

 brown shading, fore tibia and tarsus shaded, other legs with spots of shading 

 on extremities of tibiae, on spurs, and on tarsal segments. Forewing cartridge 

 buff to light buff, the costal margin broadly shaded with clove brown, leaving 

 three small semicircles of ground-colour on costa between middle and postmedial 

 fascia ; a wavy antemedial fascia at one-third, outlined in clove brown ; a pro- 

 minent clove brown spot on discocellulars ; a postmedial fascia outlined in clove 

 brown, from costa at three-fourths to inner margin at three-fourths with a kink 

 at vein M 2 forming a projection terminad ; a pre-terminal clove brown line, 

 touching the termen at the veins ; a very faint clove brown terminal edging, 

 the fringe with a line through it and some patchy shading. Hindwing similar, 

 without antemedial fascia. Underside like upperside. Sometimes some general 

 fuscous irroration. 



$. Similar, sometimes larger and more densely shaded. 



Expanse : 9-12 mm. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 31.V.1924 ; Malololelei, 2 4 $$, iv., 25, 28.vi.1924 ; 

 Aleipata, 1 <£,. 1 xi.1924. 



Savaii : Fagamalo, 2 viii.1924, xi.1925. 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 $, 14.xii.1925. 



Meyrick (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1884, p. 284) described the genus Diplo- 

 fseustis, in which he included two species, D. minima Butler, originally Cymoriza 

 minima, and a new species D. hemiophthalma. Hampson, in his Revision of the 



