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INSECTS OP SAMOA. 



strongly thickened distally, tarsus extremely short. No doubt related to the 

 group of S. (A.) actiosaria Walker (Ceylon, also widely distributed in India, 

 Malaya, etc.), or may be likened to the larger S. (S.) carnearia Warren (Nov. Zool., 

 iv, 63, 1897) Labuan) = S. (P.) carneola Warren (Nov. Zool, iv, 223, 1897) 

 (<$ and $ Labuan [loc. typ.] and Penang), which, however, further differs in 

 having the termen of the £ hind wing ventricose. 



LARENTIINAE. 



A very large subfamily, but chiefly characteristic of temperate and even 

 subarctic climates, the few tropical members of its more typical genera (Larentia, 

 Xanthorhoe, Euphyia, etc.) occurring almost exclusively at high altitudes. The 

 nine genera here recorded from the Samoan Is. are for the most part such as 

 would be expected — Collix, Eupiiheda (in a specialised form), Chloroclystis 

 and Gymnoscelis with their offshoots, and Sauris. The most doubtful as regards 

 its exact generic location is the new species which I assign to Asthena. 



" Larentia" finitima Walker (List Lep. Ins., xxiv, 1203, 1862), founded on 

 4 2$ from the Isle of Pines (Kuni) and provisionally referable to Xanthorhoe, 

 sharing to some extent the shape and coloration of the larger Hawaiian X. 

 leucoxyla Meyrick ; Scotocyma albinotata legalis Warren (Nov. Zool., hi, 384, 

 1896), Loyalty Is. ; Sterrhochaeta chlorodesma (Meyrick), (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1886, p. 194:) = Coremia picta Butler (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 439), Fiji; 

 Collix subligata Warren (Nov. Zool., iii, 385, 1896) (? C. ghosha Walker, subsp.), 

 Loyalty Is. ; the unnamed species treated by Meyrick as the 9 of Gymnoscelis 

 erymna (vide infra) ; Hybridoneura cristata (Warren) (vide infra, p. 145) ; 

 Sauris elaica Meyrick (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 193), Fiji ; a related 

 species found in the Loyalty Is., recently described as S. curvicosta Prout, 

 1928 ; Eois cymatodes (Meyrick) (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 192), New 

 Hebrides — the foregoing appear to be the only Larentiine species yet known to 

 occur in the Pacific islands, apart from those which are here recorded from 

 Samoa. 



Collix Guenee. 



Spec. Gen. Lep., x, 357, 1858. 

 A very natural genus, comprising about twenty known species. Of these, 

 one belongs to Africa with Madagascar, and another to Reunion and Mauritius ; 



