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segment hair brown. Antenna honey yellow, the shaft clothed with light drab 

 scales. Head and thorax warm buff to antimony yellow. Abdomen drab, 

 warm buff over proximal third. Pectus light buff, white in front. Vertex 

 light to warm buff. Legs with femora white shaded with light drab to hair brown ; 

 fore tibia with proximal third light buff, rest hair brown, tipped with white 

 distally, mid tibia white shaded with light drab dorsally ; hind tibia light buff ; 

 fore tarsus white, each segment tipped with hair brown to drab grey, mid and hind 

 tarsi white tinged with light to warm buff. Forewing hair brown approaching 

 fuscous, with a faint purplish sheen ; a trace of warm buff and white at base ; 

 a wavy antemedial fascia ending in a white sub triangular patch on inner margin ; 

 a fuscous dot in cell at two-thirds, with a fuscous streak on discocellulars ; a 

 broad white postmedial fascia, oblique from costa at two-thirds to lower angle 

 of cell, then wavy in a direction at right angles to inner margin, which it reaches 

 at two-thirds ; some white in fringe at tornus. Hindwing hair brown ; a broad, 

 slightly sinuous postmedial fascia ; fringe white tinged with light buff towards 

 wing-apex, a dark stripe running through its base. Underside forewing 

 similar, but with hair brown extending beyond end of cell and so reducing 

 breadth of postmedial fascia between costa and vein Cu L ; hindwing with white 

 spreading (below the cell) to wing-base, broken by traces of hair brown shading 

 veins Cux and A 2 . 



Expanse : 36 mm. 



!p. Similar, but with the forewing warm buff densely irrorated with fuscous 

 to produce a snuff-brown effect ; fasciae produced by reduction in irroration, 

 with no trace of white ; hindwing fuscous, with a much reduced buff fascia ; 

 fringe as in male. Underside pattern as in male, but underlying colour buff, 

 warm in forewing, light in hindwing. 



Expanse : 40 mm. 



Holotype^. Upolu : Malololelei, 21.iv.1925. 



Allotype Upolu : Malololelei, 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) . 



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



Upolu : Apia, 1 $>, 13.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 1 1 $, x.1925 ; 

 Malololelei, 1 <j; 1 $, 20.V.1922, l.vii.1924 (Armstrong) ; 13 <$J, 7 13, 22, 

 24.ii., 22.iii., 7.vii.l924, 21, 22.iv.1925. 



