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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Under bed and variable, always with strong dark strigulae : 

 groimd-r owing chiefly in a broad band outside the postmedian 

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

 costa about horn apex), also on the fore wing in an apical dash, on the 

 hind : ; .al band between R 3 and tornus ; the rest suffused with 

 sha< li i > ' own or red-brown, on the hind wing with a large, dark greyish- 

 brow u apical patch, which is otherwise only developed in N. tractata Prout, 



though l«M. iwed in N. intractata Walker; cell-dots sharply black, on the 

 hind wing large. ^ . 



The most outstanding aberration — 1 ^, 4 99 — has a strong fuscous shade 

 proximally to the postmediaipjj^Egles^on the under side, and on the upper 

 side a narrower one distally to the antemedian. . One or two 99 are slightly 

 transitional. 



Upolu: Maloblelei type $, 16.vi.1924 ; 1 <$ ab., 21.iv.1925 ; 1 9 ab.,. 

 12.ii.1924; 1 9 ab., 20. vi. 1924 ; allotype 9. 21.vi.1924 ; 2 99, 25, 28.vi.1924 ; 

 1 1 ,.!,. ., , ^rations of Chora sa-mmm, Butler. (Natural^). g ?ft 2 2.xi.l924 ; 



1 |, intermediate, 2,000 feet, o.xii.1925 ; Apia, 1 typical 9, 1 9 ab., x.1924. 

 A coloured figure -of this species will appear in Part Hi. Fascicle 4. 



EXPLANATION OF TEXT -FIGURES AND PLATE. 



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

 from Singapore (B) ; C. 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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