GEOMETRIDAE. 



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at least as oblique as termen, scarcely incurved ; median area traversed by 

 ill-defined lines or — in the and 1 $ — with more or less dark shading proximally 

 and distally, converging into a more definite dark spot from M 2 to hind margin ; 

 lines beyond more or less parallel, with the proximal subterminal fairly strong, 

 band-like, an indistinct pale longitudinal mark behind R 3 ; a slight cloudy sub- 

 macular terminal band ; terminal line little darker, interrupted by pale dots 

 at the veins. Hind wing with termen faintly sinuous between the radials, and 

 more markedly between M 1 and SM 2 ; concolorous with fore wing, but looking 

 slightly paler on account of a widening or accentuation of the pale band outside 

 the postmedian ; postmedian a little angled about R, 3 ; longitudinal pale spot 

 of outer area not or scarcely developed. 



Under side paler, more glossy ; the only noticeable markings a cloudy 

 postmedian, arising on the fore wing from a costal spot, and on the fore wing 

 an antemedian costal spot (generally weaker). 



Upolu : Malololelei, type and the most similar $ (allotype), 2,000 feet, 

 21. iv. 1925 ; a more cinnamon-tinged l.vi.1924 ; a greyer, more regularly 

 lined slightly reminiscent of Gymnoscdis fasciata Hampson, 25.ii.1924. This 

 species may be placed next to C. sordida Warren (1903), which is distributed 

 in New Guinea and its islands and I believe reaches the Solomon and 

 Bismarck groups, while it is probably only a subspecies of (identical with ?) 

 C. inops Warren (1898, erroneously as Gymnoscdis), of the Kei Is. and Amboina. 

 These latter, however, have both the proximal spurs of the hind tibia short, 

 while C. pauxiUula Turner (1907), of N. Queensland, likewise closely similar 

 in shape and facies, has the hind wing hairy beneath (sect. Dasymatia Warren). 



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



18. Chloroclystis lepta (Meyrick). 



Pasiphila lepta Meyrick, Tr. Ent. Soe. Land., 1886, p. 191, 1886 (Tonga and Marshall Islands). 

 ? Pasiphilodes lepta Warren, Nov. Zool., ii, 110, 1895. 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 1 i.1924 (Steffany). 



Apparently variable, but only four specimens, all from different islands, 

 are yet known to me, so that it is not at present possible to form an opinion 

 on the nature of the variation. A 2 in the British Museum, from Moorea, 

 Society Is., is strongly marked above and agrees pretty closely with the present 

 example. Meyrick's original from the Marshall Is. is a little paler, that from 



