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broad streak beneath cell from base to middle darker. Hindwings dark fuscous, 

 darkest terminally. (Plate IV. fig. 4.) 



2 specimens, Kilauea, Hawaii, in September. Differs from all the rest by its 

 small size and dark fuscous hindwings. 



(4) Agrotis arenivolans Butl. 



Agrotis arenivolans Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xv. p. 269. 



c/ ?. 38 — 52 mm. Head and thorax light brownish sprinkled with whitish and 

 dark fuscous, thorax broadly streaked longitudinally with dark and pale. Antennae 

 in (/ shortly bipectinated. Forewings fuscous, whitish-sprinkled ; veins sometimes 

 forming white streaks ; a thick streak beneath cell from base to beyond middle, 

 attenuated and acute at each end, and five elongate spots between bases of veins 

 2 — 7 (fourth shortest and sometimes much reduced) dark fuscous, blackish-edged ; 

 orbicular and reniform edged with pale or whitish, usually dark-outlined, orbicular 

 small, oval, usually preceded and followed by elongate dark fuscous spots ; in one 

 specimen beneath and beyond these dark markings the ground is wholly suffused 

 with ochreous-whitish ; sometimes a dark fuscous dorsal streak from about middle 

 to tornus ; an irregular terminal series of long wedge-shaped sometimes partly confluent 

 dark fuscous spots, darker-edged, shortest below apex and below middle, longest in 

 middle. Hindwings fuscous. 



3 specimens; 2 Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 feet, in July; i Haleakala, Maui, at 10,000 

 feet, in April. Also one received from Mr Blackburn, and the original types in the 

 British Museum, which are said to be from Maui, taken flying by day on sandhills 

 near the sea. It varies in intensity of marking. 



(5) Agrotis panoplias, sp. nov. 



</. 39 mm. Head and thorax fuscous irrorated with white. Antennae bidentate 

 with rather long triangular processes. Forewings fuscous irrorated with white, veins 

 dark fuscous ; subbasal line dark fuscous, interrupted ; first and second lines dark 

 fuscous, first irregularly angled, beneath costa acutely, second slightly waved ; a dark 

 fuscous posteriorly dilated streak beneath cell from base to middle ; orbicular and 

 reniform fuscous, dark-outlined, approximated, connected by a narrow dark streak, 

 lower edge of reniform confluent with two small dark fuscous spots between bases 

 of veins 2 — 4 ; a dark suffusion towards costa before apex, one towards termen above 

 middle, and one above tornus. Hindwings fuscous, lighter at base, darker posteriorly. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 5.) 



I specimen, Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 feet, in July. 



