168 INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Under side variegated and variable, always with strong dark strigulae : 

 ground-colour whitish, showing chiefly in a broad band outside the postmedian 

 (which on fore wing is straightish and little more oblique than termen, reaching 

 costa about 5 mm. from apex), also on the fore wing in an apical dash, on the 

 hind wing in a terminal band between E, 3 and tornus ; the rest suffused with 

 shades of yellow-brown or red-brown, on the hind wing with a large, dark greyish- 

 brown apical patch, which is otherwise only developed in N. tractate/, Prout, 

 though foreshadowed in N. intractata Walker ; cell-dots sharply black, on the 

 hind wing large. 



The most outstanding aberration — 1 4 — has a strong fuscous shade 

 proximally to the postmedian, broadest on the under side, and on the upper 

 side a narrower one distally to the antemedian. One or two are slightly 

 transitional. 



Upolu: Malololelei, type <J, 16.vi.1924 ; 1 ab., 21.iv.1925 ; 1 $ ab., 

 12.ii.1924 ; 1 $ ab., 20.vi.1924 ; allotype $, 21.vi.1924 ; 2 25, 28.vi.1924; 

 1 $ ab., 2.vii.l924 (Armstrong) ; 1 vii.1925 (Wilder) ; 2 $$, 22.xi.1924 ; 

 1 intermediate, 2,000 feet, 5.xii.l925 ; Apia, 1 typical 2, 1 $ ab., x.1924. 



A coloured figure of this species will appear in Part III, Fascicle 4. 



EXPLANATION OF TEXT-FIGURES AND PLATE. 



Text-fig. 1. Valvae of males of Chora injectaria from Ceylon (A) ; C. injectaria compactaria 

 from Singapore (B) ; G. injectaria subsp ? from Fiji (C) ; C. samoana (D). Drawn 

 by W. H. T. Tarns. 



,, 2. Valvae of males of Cleroa decisaria from Key Islands (A) ; C. hemiopa from Upolu, 

 Samoa {B). Drawn by W. H. T. Tarns. 

 Plate V. Aberrations of Cleora samoana, all taken at Vailima, Upolu, Samoa, 7th September, 

 1925 (G. H. E. Hopkins). 



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