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219. Margaronia samoana Swinhoe. 



Margaronia samoana Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xviii, p. 414, 1906. 



Glyphodes itysalis Walker, Rebel, Denkschr. K. AJcad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Natunv. KL, Ixxxv, 



p. 431, 1910, non Walker. 

 Glyphodes samoana Swinhoe, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 138, 1915. 



Samoa. 1 type, no other data. 



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

 1 dVl ?, 30.V.1924, 7.viii.l925 ; Malololelei, 2 $$, 24.ii., 21.vi.1924 ; Malifa, 

 1 <$, 1 ?, 6.vi., 6.viii.l905 (Rechinger). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 & 1 ?, i.1924 (Steffany). 



220. Margaronia buxtoni, sp. n. (Plate XVI, fig. 4). 



Palpus outwardly with first segment fuscous dorsally, white ventrally, 

 second segment fuscous with proximal third ventrally white, third segment 

 light orange yellow. Maxillary palpus proximally fuscous, distally light orange 

 yellow. Antenna honey yellow, shaft with warm buff scales, but with the second 

 fourth clothed with loose hair brown hair-scales. Head white, frons tinted with 

 light orange yellow, with a medial fuscous stripe and the sides shaded with 

 fuscous, vertex light orange yellow medially. Thorax white, patagium snuff 

 brown outwardly, white medially, light orange yellow inwardly ; tegula shaded 

 outwardly with snuff brown ; mesonotum and metanotum with a medial light 

 orange yellow longitudinal stripe. Abdomen (tergum) white with a broad 

 medial light orange yellow stripe ; anal tuft fuscous. Pectus and venter 

 white. Foreleg light orange yellow, mid and hindlegs white to cartridge buff. 

 Forewing white, opalescent, with an extensive pattern (see figure) in light orange 

 yellow, xanthine orange, snuff brown and warm sepia ; the opalescent streak 

 across middle of cell and that at discocellulars with a mixed pale turquoise green 

 and pale caerulean blue sheen, the other opalescence (including the streak before 

 the discocellulars) with a mixed pale violet blue and purple sheen ; fringe white, 

 fuscous at wing-apex. Hind wing similarly coloured, opalescence pale violet 

 blue and purple, pattern (see figure) confined to distal third ; fringe white the 

 section about vein Cu 2 to A! fuscous black at its base, edged with fuscous, with 

 a silvery gloss. Underside white, those parts opalescent on upper side corres- 

 pondingly opalescent, all the opalescence being mixed pale violet blue and purple. 

 Expanse : 29 mm. 



