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palpi are upturned, with the second joint 
lengthened to reach the vertex of the head; 
the third joint is short; the frons is smooth; 
the male antennae are ciliated. The thorax 
is clothed with hairs, without crest; the pro- 
and metathoracic tibiae of the males are 
fringed with long hairs; the prothoracic tibiae 
have no spines and the metathoracic tibiae 
have spines only between the medial and 
apical spurs. In the male, the underside of 
the posterior wings is entirely clothed with 
specialized scales ( the androconiae of Hamp- 
son, 1913). The first segments of the abdo- 
men carry tufts of hairs dorsally. 
Only one species is known from this area. 
Lagoptera miniacea Felder 
Fig. 3 a-c 
Lagoptera miniacea Felder, Reise Novara, 
Lepid., pi 116, fig. 8, 1874. 
Lagoptera miniacea Felder; Hampson, Cat. 
Lepid. Phal. B.M. 12: 4l6, 1913. 
Lagoptera miniacea Felder; Tams, Ins. of 
Samoa, Lepid. 4: 214, 1935. 
Lagoptera miniacea Felder; Gaede, in Seitz 
11: 471, pi. 49 b, 1938. 
Lagoptera miniacea Felder; Viette, Pacific 
Science 3(4): 330, 1949. 
Wingspread 88-92 mm.; length of the 
anterior wings 43-45 mm. 
The head and the thorax are reddish brown, 
more or less dark, the vertex with a little 
white line; the abdomen is light reddish 
brown anteriorly, the rest is pale red. 
The background color of the anterior 
wings is that of the thorax irrorated with 
black and bluish white scales. At the extrem- 
ity of the medial cell is found a black spot 
(the reniform spot), which is usually rather 
large, but which can become greenish white, 
or can be reduced to a little black point, or 
can even be absent; a basal dark line, lightly 
waved, exteriorly bent, is seen; the post- 
medial line is straight, dark; an indication of 
Fig. 3. Lagoptera miniacea Felder: a, tegumen, 
uncus, and anal tube; b, penis; c, right valva. 
some black spots between Mi and M 2 is 
sometimes seen in the marginal area. 
The posterior wings are pale red with an 
indication of a black spot at the apex of the 
medial cell and a marginal black band with 
pale red on the external margin. 
The underside of the wings is pale red; 
the legs are of this color with the underside 
black, irrorated with bluish white scales. 
Genitalia <S : The tegumen is not much 
developed, being almost indistinct; the uncus 
is strongly developed (Fig. 3 a), bifid and 
asymmetrical, the right part being longer 
than the left part, these two parts rounded 
at their apex; the scaphium is very charac- 
teristic, highly sclerotized, carrying at its apex 
two lateral humps preceded by two dimples; 
the lateral dorsal parts of the ninth urite are 
narrow and long; the valvae (Fig. 3c) have 
