Sva dahliana Enderlein

Banks, Nathan, 1942, Neuropteroid Insects from Guam, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 25-30 : 28

12. Sva dahliana Enderlein , Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 110, 1904.

Machanao, June 5 ; Agana, May 25; Tarague, May 17. One specimen each.

This species was described from an alcoholic specimen from Ralum, Bismarck Archipelago. In these dried specimens, the scales are more numerous; those on the wing, seen from behind, have a decidedly purplish hue, and those on the thorax above, seen from in front, are also purplish. The body and wings are very dark brown, in one the head is almost black; the antennae are pale, except the brown basal part; the hair around outer margin of forewing is snow white, before it, the hair on costa is nearly black.