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FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



moderately curved ; lower edge of reniform forming a white dot, edged with dark 

 fuscous and followed by a small dark fuscous suffusion ; in ? orbicular and reniform 

 obscurely defined, pale yellowish-ochreous ; a wedge-shaped faint darker suffusion on 

 termen beneath apex, not reaching second line. Hindwings light greyish-ochreous, 

 irregularly suffused with fuscous, becoming darker fuscous posteriorly. 



7 specimens ; 2 Molokai, in May ; 3 Lanai, at 2000 feet, in February ; i Mts. 

 Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 feet, in June; i Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet, in May. 



(9) Leucania unipuncta Haw. {extranea Guen.). 



3 specimens ; 2 Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 feet, in July ; i Haleakala, Maui, at 

 5000 feet, in April. Occurs also native in America, New Zealand, Australia, S. Asia, 

 and as a casual immigrant probably throughout the warmer regions of the world. 



Agrotis Ochs. 



Head rough-scaled. Eyes glabrous. Antennae in </ ciliated, often acutely biden- 

 tate or bipectinated with apex simple. Thorax usually with more or less developed 

 anterior and posterior crests. Abdomen not crested. Tibiae all spinose. 



1. Antennae in $ at most serrulate 2. 



,, ,, acutely bidentate or bipectinated 8. 



2. Forewings with veins conspicuously pale {ig) neurogramma. 



,, ,, not conspicuously pale 3. 



3. Hindwings grey-whitish, with purple reflections {2) saucia. 



,, fuscous 4. 



4. Forewings at least partly brown-reddish 5. 



„ at most faintly rosy-tinged 7. 



5. Forewings with terminal area markedly pale {21) cinctipennis. 



,, „ not pale 6. 



6. Reniform marked posteriorly with a whitish-ochreous crescentic spot ...(20) selenias. 



,, not so marked (22) chersotoides. 



7. Forewings shorter, claviform strongly marked, broader {16) mesotoxa. 



,, longer, claviform faintly indicated, narrower {i^) crinigera. 



8. Antennae in $ bipectinated 9. 



,, „ bidentate with triangular processes 12. 



9. Forewings with dark submedian streak from base to middle 10. 



,, without such streak 1 1. 



10. Forewings with dark spots between bases of veins 2 — 7 {4) arenivolans. 



„ without such spots , (j) microreas. 



1 1. Hindwings grey-whitish (7) ypsiloii. 



„ fuscous (d) cremata. 



12. First and second lines wholly absent 13. 



>. ,, more or less indicated 16. 



