280 INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



dull purplish black gloss. Abdomen (tergum) fuscous, darkening to fuscous 

 black distally. Pectus warm buff, fuscous in front. Venter warm buff with 

 some hair brown shading proximally on last few segments. Legs with femora 

 warm buff with slight fuscous shading ; tarsal segments blackish brown, tipped 

 with warm buff ; fore tibia blackish brown, with a warm buff transverse fascia 

 medially and traces of warm buff distally ; middle tibia shaded dorsally with 

 blackish brown, distally tipped warm buff ; hind tibia warm buff with some 

 blackish-brown shading. Forewing deep slaty brown with a dull purplish black 

 gloss, the pattern is fuscous black to blackish brown ; an interrupted antemedial 

 fascia ; a dot in middle of cell, with a spot in discocellulars ; a postmedial 

 fascia (for course cf. figure) dentate on veins to Cu 2 ; a subterminal fascia 

 emphasised interneurally ; a pre-terminal series of prominent dots at vein-ends, 

 with extensions into fringe, producing there a chequered effect. Hindwing light 

 drab, densely suffused with fuscous, the postmedial and subterminal fasciae and 

 the fringe chequering in denser shading. Underside light drab uniformly suffused 

 with fuscous, the markings not prominently emphasised. 



Expanse : 32-34 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Apia, ix.1924. 



Paratype $. Upolu: Malololelei, x.1925. 



212. Agathodes rebeli, sp. n. (Plate XVI, fig. 2). 



Agathodes ostentalis Geyer, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 152, 1915, non 

 Geyer. 



and $. Palpus xanthine orange. Antenna cinnamon brown, shaft with 

 warm buff scales. Head light orange yellow, xanthine orange at sides of frons. 

 Thorax xanthine orange. Abdomen with basal segment glossy white, the rest 

 xanthine orange to amber brown, mixed with magenta or Indian lake, warm 

 buff distally. Pectus glossy white. Venter glossy white, tinged over distal 

 two-thirds with light orange yellow. Legs glossy white. Forewing with 

 proximal two- thirds broadly glossy white, rest of wing light orange yellow tinged 

 with xanthine orange, broken up by a broad irregular longitudinal patch of 

 Indian lake through the distal two-thirds (for distribution of pattern see figure) ; 

 parts of the Indian red patch are edged with opalescent white lines ; a fine 

 silvery white line before termen (not always present) ; fringe sometimes light 

 orange yellow to xanthine orange, or Indian red. Hindwing light orange 

 yellow. Underside light orange yellow. 



