natural, history

58. Decadarehis euopbthalma MeyrickDecadarchis euophlhalma Meyrick, 1924, Exotic Microlepidoptera, 3: 83.Hutuna, 1-5. xi., at light, I ex.Distribution: Solomon islands. Meyrick (lac. cit.) records this species as having beenbeen bred from larvae feeding on leaves of coconut, probably on dead and dryportions, as is usual in this group.59. Decadarehis iDeulta MeyrickDecadarchi5 inculta Meyrick, 1927, Insects of Samoa, 3, Lepidoptera, fase. 2, p. Ill.Onegaguga, 28. x., I ex.; Kasipa Hill, c. 300 ft., 29. x. I ex.; Hutuna, x. and xi., 9 ex.;at light.Distribution: Samoa.60. CataIectis flexa sp. n. (Figs. 27, 107, 108)d 8 mm. Labial pal pus cartridge buff, first segment and second segment except apexsuffused with fuscous-black exteriorly. Maxillary palpus fuscous-black. Crown ofhead cream-buff, face cartridge buff. Antenna and scape grayish fuscous. Fore wingwhite, an elongate mummy brown spot at base of costa edged inwardly with sayalbrown, a moderate somewhat oblique mummy brown median fascia becoming diffuseand mixed with sayal brown towards inner margin, with anterior margin straight andpoorly defined, and posterior margin straight from costa to middle of wing, thencesharply angled outwards to continue direct and slightly more obliquely to inner margin,sharply defined in dark mummy brown; two small mummy brown dots closetogether on costa at 3/4, a smaller dot obliquely outward beneath them and neartornus; a sprinkling of sayal brown scales distad of the two costal dots extendingacross the wing to the tornus; cilia cartridge buff, tinged sayal brown at apex. Hindwing and cilia mouse gray. Fore leg and middle leg fuseous-black; hind leg creambuffsuffused with grayish.Male genitalia: Figs. 107,108. Tcgumen a very broad sckrotized band with a largemembranous lobe or sac on the caudal margin clothed with hair-like setae. Valvalong and narrow; sacculus strongly developed, free distally and produced as amoderate down-turned point reaching a little beyond middle of valva. Vinculumtriangular. Saccus stout, very short. Aedoeagus cylindrical, with numerous internalheavily sc1erotized tooth-like corn uti.Type d: Rennell I., Hutuna, 8. xi. 1953, at light. Genitalia slide B. M. 3640.Nearest to ptilozona Meyrick from Fiji; distinguished by the darker brown faseiaof the fore wing, and by the two small costal dots, ptilozona having only one dot.llO