HETEROCERA. 



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226. Thliptoceras octoguttalis Felder. 



Botys octoguttalis Felder, Reise Novara, Zool. ii (2), Lep. v, pi. 135, fig. 38, 1875. 

 Upolu : Malololelei, 1 $, 25.ii.1924. 



227. Terastia meticulosalis Guenee. 



Terastia meticulosalis Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lep., viii, p. 212, 1854. 



Terastia meticulosalis Guenee, Rebel, Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. EL, lxxxv, 

 p. 431, 1910 ; 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 146, 1915 



Upolu : Apia, 2 14, 21.ix.1924 (Armstrong) ; 2 $$, 13, 14.ix.1923, ex 

 Erythrina seeds (Swezey and Wilder) ; 1 $, 4.V.1925 ; Malololelei, 1 <j>, 24.ii.1924. 



228. Hyalobathra wilderi, sp. n. (Plate VI, fig. 22). 



Isocentris illectalis Walker, Rebel, Denkschr. E. Ahad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. El., lxxxv, 

 p. 431, 1910 ; 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 146, 1915, non Walker. 



Light orange yellow to deep chrome, underside light buff with some 

 white. Palpus with first segment white ventrally. Antenna warm buff. 

 Fore tarsus with segments white, tipped distally with buff yellow. Forewing 

 with a deeply bowed (concavity basad) wavy, fuscous antemedial fascia, not 

 well marked ; a fuscous streak along discocellulars ; a wavy fuscous postmedial 

 fascia oblique from costa at two-thirds to vein M 2 , bowed (concavity basad) 

 to middle of vein Ciix, then running basad to vein Cu 2 at two-thirds, thence to 

 inner margin just beyond middle, bowed between Cu 2 and A 2 , and A 2 and inner 

 margin ; a subterminal series of fuscous spots interneurally ; fringe cartridge 

 buff with a fine fuscous line throughout its base. Hindwing similarly coloured, 

 proximal two-thirds much paler, especially costad ; postmedial fascia and 

 subterminal fascia the only markings. 



Expanse : 22 mm. 

 Similar, larger. 



Expanse : 26 mm. 



Holotype $ and allotype Upolu : Malololelei, 24. ii. 1924. 

 Paratypes. Upolu : Malololelei, 1 2 vii., 12.vii.1925 (Wilder) ; 

 1 <$, 2 ?$, 24.ii.1924, 21.iv.1925. 



Tutuila ; Pago Pago, 1 & ii.1924 (Steffany). 



Rebel (1910) records 1 taken by Rechinger in 1905. 



