Margaronia samoana Swinhoe

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.Published as part of Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, pp. 163-185 in Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189 on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.516531