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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Tonga paler still. The under side is always weakly marked. The originals 

 were both marked by their author " cotype," but Sir George Hampson has 

 made the from the Marshall Is., the holotype. 



Micrulia Warren. 



Nov. Zool, iii, 396, 1896. 



This genus differs from the two previous genera in that the hind tibia in 

 both sexes has only three spurs, the proximal one very long. The characters 

 upon which Warren bases his genus are : hind wing of the triangular, with 

 termen nearly straight, abdominal margin puckered above and bearing beneath, 

 from anal angle to M, tufts of thick hair. He adds that it is otherwise as 

 Chloroclystis ; but, besides the tibial character, it differs in having SC 1 of the 

 fore wing parallel with C and closely approximated, but not anastomosing. 

 Only the type species entirely agrees with this characterisation, but I consider 

 Opistheploce Warren, with termen of hind wing in $ " convolute and folded over 

 above," to be merely a section of Micrulia, and would refer to Opistheploce the 

 following : M. cinerea Warren (1896) (Batjan, only the type known) ; M. rufula 

 Warren (1899) (praec. form. ?) (Milne Bay ; also found from Dutch New Guinea 

 to Choiseul) ; M. eurotosoma Hampson (1903) (sequ. § ?) (Ceylon) ; M . medio- 

 plaga Swinhoe (1902) (Borneo ; also occurs in Ceylon). 



19. Micrulia tenuilinea Warren. 



Micrulia tenuilinea Warren, Nov. Zool., iii, 391, 1896 (Khasi Hills). 

 Megatkeca dentosa Warren, Nov. Zool., viii, 31, 1901 (Queensland). 



Gymnoscelis lobata $ Hampson, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, xxi, 1246, 1912 (ex err., nec $) 

 (Ceylon). 



Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 1 25.ii.1924. 



Like several of the small and obscure Eupitheciids, this species must have 

 an enormously wide distribution, but has been much overlooked. I had seen 

 specimens of it from Ceylon, Assam, the Malay Peninsula and Pulo Laut and 

 had confidently labelled the " Queensland " example in Tring Museum, with 

 the facies and setting of the specimens in the same collection from the Khasi 

 Hills, as " err. loc. (probably Khasis)." In view, however, of the astonishing 

 discovery of it on Upolu, I must revise that judgment. Turner (Proc. Roij. Soc. 

 Vict., xvi, 281-2, 1904) does not know Australian material. F. Wood Jones 



