HETEROCERA. 



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half shaded with buffy brown, fore tarsal segments distally lightly shaded with 

 drab. Forewing drab to buffy brown, costa shaded in the darker colour ; 

 a whitish ill-defined crenate antemedial fascia, edged terminad with buffy brown ; 

 a round spot in cell at three quarters, surrounded with whitish and with a whitish 

 centre, and similar oval spot at end of discocellulars ; a whitish subterminal 

 fascia from just below costa to vein Cu 2 , along Cu 2 to below end of cell, then wavy 

 to middle of inner margin, edged basad with buffy brown. Hindwing similar 

 in colour, inner margin broadly whitish ; traces of a discocellular spot ; post- 

 medial fascia similar in course to that on forewing. Underside whitish, with 

 traces of weak shading of a greyish olive tint. 

 Expanse : 34 mm. 



Holotype allotype 9 paratypes (7 2 

 Upolu : Malololelei, 5-7. vii. 1924. 



209. Sylepta sabinusalis Walker. 



Botys sabinusalis Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M., xviii, p. 708, 1859. 

 Upolu : Apia, 1 £, 28.vi.1924. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 2 ii.1924 (Steffany) ; 1 & 1 $, 20, 21 .ix., emerged 

 3, 4.x. 1923, ex Pif turns (Swezey and Wilder) ; Amauli, 1 <3\ 6.ix.l923 (Swezey). 



210. Sylepta derogata Fabricius. 



Phalaena derogata Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 641, 1775. 



Upolu : Apia, 1 12.iii.1923 (Armstrong) ; 1 14.ix.1923 (Swezey and 

 Wilder) ; 2 $$, 8.iv., 17.vi.1924, 23.V.1925. 



Savaii : Safune, 1 lowlands to 1,000 feet, 1. v. 1924 (Bryan). 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 $, v. 1896 (de la Garde). 



One of two females brought back by Buxton and Hopkins bears a label : 

 23.V.1925, bred from the curled leaves of a common tree, Hibiscus tiliaceus. 



211. Sylepta commotes, sp. n. (Plate XVI, fig. 6). 



Palpus fuscous. Antenna bone brown, shaft with fuscous scales. 

 Head fuscous, behind antenna snuff brown to fuscous. Thorax fuscous with a 



