Margaronia samoana Swinhoe

Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 163-185 : 182

30. Margaronia samoana Swinhoe ,

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. VII, 18: 414, 1906; Tams, Ins. Samoa 3 (4): 283, 1935.

Moths were reared from the following places: Inarajan , June 8; Asan , Aug. 22; Agat , Sept. 26; Sumay road, Oct. 1, Swezey; Piti , Sept. 11, 13, at light, Swezey. One specimen in Bishop Museum, Fullaway , 1911.

Described from Samoa, I have found no other record of it. In Guam it occurred as a leafroller on hodda ( Ficus tinctoria ). The Guam specim~ns have the white portions of the wings pure white, whereas in specimens from Samoa at Bishop M1;1seumthese areas have a creamy tinge.