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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Endoteichinae {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 489) cited as type of 

 Diplopseustis, Walker's Ambia ? perieresalis, under which he sinks Cymoriza 

 minima Butler. Later Hampson, in his Revision of the Pyraustinae (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1898, p. 614), placed D. hemiofhthalma in Sufetula, where it 

 appears to belong ; it certainly seems more closely related to S. sunidesalis 

 Walker than to D. perieresalis Walker, so I have followed Hampson. I originally 

 described the Samoan material as new, as it did not seem to agree with 

 Meyrick's description, but I have come to the conclusion, after examining Fijian 

 examples identified by Meyrick as D. hemiofhthalma, that the Samoan insect is the 

 same species. I have retained my description of the pattern and colour, as, 

 with the figure, it may prove useful in drawing attention to the points which are 

 difficult to follow in comparing the insects with the description. 



193. Aulacoptera fuscinervalis Swinhoe. 



Aulacophora fuscinervalis Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), xvi, p. 300, 1895. 

 Samoa. 1 $, 1920 (O'Connor). 



The name Aulacophora as used by Swinhoe seems to be a nomen nudum ; 

 in any case it had been used previously in the Coleoptera (Chevrolet, 1834 ; 

 Clark, 1865). 



194. Rehimena cissophora Turner. 



Entephria cissophora Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral., xxxii, p. 88, 1908. 

 Upolu : Apia, 2 13.iv.1924 (Armstrong) ; Aleipata, 1 <j>, 7.iv.l924 ; 

 Vailima, 1 2.U925 ; Mt. Vaea, 10, 25.iv.1924 (Bryan). 

 Savaii : Safune, 2 lowlands to 1,000 feet (Bryan). 



195. Hymenia recurvalis Fabricius. 



Phalaena recurvalis Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 644, 1775. 



Phalaena Pyralis fascialis Stoll in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen, iv (34), p. 236 and index, pi. 398, fig. O, 

 1782. 



Upolu: Apia, 3 1 % ll.iv.1922, 4, 6, 8.V.1924 (Armstrong) ; 2 j&j, 

 1 $, 13-15.ix.1923 (Wilder) ; I & 1 $, 30.i., ix.1924 ; Malololelei, 3 2 $?, 

 23, 25.ii., 23, 25.vi., 5.vii.l924 ; Lalomanu, Aleipata, 1 $, xi.1924. 



Savaii : Tuasivi, 1 8.H.1924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 ii.1924 (Steffany) ; Amauli, 1 9.ix.l923 



(Swezey). 



