278 INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



206. Nacoleia diemenalis Guenee. 



Asopia diemenalis Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lep., viii, p. 203, 1854. 



Nacoleia diemenalis Guenee, Rebel, Denkschr. K. AJcad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. EL, lxxxv, 

 p. 430, 1910 ; 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 146, 1915. 



Samoa. 1 $, iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). 



Upolu : Apia, 1 2 15, 16.V.1924 (Armstrong) ; 14 5 $$, 12, 14, 

 16-19.vi.1924 ; Lalomanu, Aleipata : 2 1 $, xi.1924 ; Aleipata, 2 $9, 

 8.iv., iv., v.1924. 



Nuutele : 1 9, 8.iv.l924. 



Savaii : Safune, 1 <$, 30.iv.1924 (Bryan). 



Tutuila : 1 9, vii.1917 (Kellers) ; 1 1 ?, v.1896 (de la Garde) ; Pago Pago, 

 2 99, 14.xii.1925. 

 A bean pest. 



207. Nacoleia octasema Meyrick. 



Notarcha octasema Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 259. 



Upolu : Apia, 2 2 99, 19, 21, 23.V.1924 ; Malololelei , 1 2.vii.l924 

 (Armstrong). 



Tutuila. : 1 ?, on board S.Y. " Valhalla," 22.iv.1903 (Nicoll) ; Pago Pago, 

 2^, 1 9, ii.1924 (Steffany). 



Manua : Tau, 2 gg, ex banana, 13, 27.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



The dark red-brown larva makes webs among young bananas, especially 

 high up in the space between the fruits. The larva eats through the skin and the 

 young fruit dies, or, in less severe cases is left scabby and twisted. Often 

 a whole bunch is spoilt, nothing being left but a few scarred and scabby frag- 

 ments. The pupa is found in a web between the bananas. In Bull. Ent. Res., 

 xviii, p. 29, fig. 1, Hopkins illustrates the damage done by the larvae of this 

 moth to bananas. 



208. Authaeretis exaereta, sp. n. (Plate XIII, fig. 6 ; Plate XVI, fig. 8). 



$ and Palpus with first segment white, second drab to buff brown, a 

 little white at base ventrally, third drab to buffy brown. Antenna honey brown, 

 shaft clothed with avellaneous scales. Thorax drab, vinaceous buff posteriorly. 

 Abdomen (tergum) light buff to vinaceous buff. Pectus and venter white. 

 Legs white to cartridge buff, foreleg tinged with light buff, fore tibia with distal 



