HETEROCERA. 



289 



Holotype Upolu : Malololelei, 20.vi.1924. 



Allotype $. Upolu : Malololelei, vii.1924. 



Paratypes. Upolu : Malololelei, 2 18.viii., 25.xi.1924. 



236. Pyrausta amboinalis Pagenstecher. 



Botys amboinalis Pagenstecher, Jahrb. Nassau. Ver. f. Naturkunde, xxxvii, p. 269, pi. 6, fig. 2, 

 1884. 



Pyrausta amboinalis Pagenstecher, Rebel, 2 Beiheft Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalt., xxxii, p. 153, 

 1915. 



Samoa. 1 $ (Friederichs). 



Hepialidae. 



237. Phassodes vitiensis Rothschild (Plate XII, fig. 1). 



Phassodes vitiensis Rothschild, Nov. Zool., ii, p. 482, 1895. 

 Upolu : Malololelei, 2 specimens, 18.viii.1924 ; 25.xi.1924. 



Tineidae. 



238. Thuriostoma homalospora Meyrick (Text-fig. 12). 



Thuriostoma homalospora Meyrick, Exot. Microlep., iv, p. 515, 1934. 

 Holotype Upolu : Malololelei, 25.xi.1924. 



This specimen was overlooked when the original consignment of Micro- 

 lepidoptera was sent to Mr. Meyrick, and I found it mixed with 

 the three species of Exeristis. Mr. Meyrick has very kindly 

 described it at once, and on returning it he wrote : " I return 

 your insect herewith ; it is undoubtedly curious, abnormal in 

 aspect and in some points of structure," and in a later letter : Text-pig. 12 — 



" You might like to know on what I relied in placing this Thuriostoma 



insect of undoubtedly puzzling aspect. The basal half of the M°eVrick°^ 



palpi bears long scattered bristles pointing diversely outwards Labial palpus to 



beneath and laterally ; this structure occurs in very many (though sllow scattered 



by no means all) the typical Tineidae, but nowhere else except 



in a single Gelechiad genus, Pogochaetia (a very odd abnormality, but 



the genus is in every other point a typical Gelechiad), and as your insect, though 



departing from normal Tineid type in several particulars, exhibits no prohibitive 



character, I have no real doubt of its position." 

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