148 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



(14) Agrods spoderopa, sp. nov. 



(/ ?. 38 — 40 mm. Head and thorax light greyish-ochreous or brownish. An- 

 tennae in (/ bidentate with triangular processes. Forewings light fuscous or brownish, 

 suffusedly irrorated with whitish, sometimes reddish-tinged in disc ; subbasal line in- 

 dicated on costa by dark margins ; first line indistinctly dark-edged, twice angulated ; 

 second indicated by a fine dark fuscous acutely waved-dentate line, strongly curved ; 

 orbicular and reniform obscurely pale-edged, orbicular small, oval, sometimes with 

 posterior projection ; claviform dash-like, blackish or dark fuscous, tending to be 

 extended as an undefined plical line to base ; subterminal line indicated by indistinct 

 irregular darker anterior margin. Hindwings greyish-ochreous. (Plate IV. fig. 8.) 



6 specimens, Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet, in March and April. Also one 

 received from Mr Blackburn. 



(15) A gratis crinigera Butl. 



Spaelotis crinigera Butl. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) vii. 1881, p. 321. 



(/ ?. 49 — 54 mm. Head and front of thorax brownish, rest of thorax light 

 fuscous. Antennae in c/ filiform. Forewings long, rather narrow ; light fuscous, 

 darker-sprinkled, sometimes partially faintly rosy-tinged ; subbasal and first lines ob- 

 scurely pale, dark-edged, first irregularly waved-dentate, very acutely on vein i /; ; 

 median thick, cloudy, dark fuscous, slightly curved ; second with dark inner edge 

 acutely waved-dentate, outer faint or obsolete, regular ; orbicular oval, dark-centred, 

 dark-outlined ; reniform dark-suffused, including three obscure paler transverse marks, 

 resting on posterior edge of median line ; claviform faintly indicated, narrow, elongate ; 

 subterminal line sometimes faintly paler, faintly darker-edged anteriorly. Hindwings 

 light fuscous. 



3 specimens ; 2 Waialua, Koolau range, Oahu, in March ; i Lanai, at 2000 feet, 

 in February. There are five specimens in the British Museum collection ; the species 

 is recorded by Mr Blackburn from Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii, and said to be uncertain 

 in appearance but sometimes to occur in thousands, usually near sea-level. 



(16) Agrotis viesotoxa, sp. nov. 



?. 44 — 46 mm. Head and thorax brown. Forewings relatively markedly shorter 

 than in A. crinigera; brown, sprinkled with dark fuscous, and sometimes slightly 

 with whitish ; lines as in A. crinigera, but median rather more curved, second only 



