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i ; first line whitish-ochreous or light yellow-ochreous, often strongly edged posteriorly 

 with blackish-fuscous, straight, running from \ of dorsum very obliquely outwards to 

 middle of disc, where it ceases ; second line whitish or whitish-ochreous, thick, straight, 

 slightly more oblique than termen, edged anteriorly with dark fuscous or blackish- 

 fuscous ; lower half of median band sometimes darker, or yellowish-tinged, or wholly 

 blackish ; reniform indicated by a blackish dot ; an oblique darker shade from apex, 

 preceded by a whitish suffusion ; lower f of subterminal line faintly pale, sometimes 

 preceded by a dark or blackish-fuscous streak. Hindwings fuscous or light fuscous; 

 a darker discal dot. (Plate IV. fig. 15.) 



9 specimens ; 8 Waianae Mts., Oahu, at 3000 feet, in April ; i Mts. Waimea, 

 Kauai, at 4000 feet, in May. Varies much in colouring. 



(2) Nesa77tiptis obsoleta Butl. 



Hypena obsoleta Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 47; ib. xvii. p. 9; id. Ann. Mag. 

 N. H. (5) VII. 1 88 1, p. 324. Hypena insignis Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 48 ; 

 ib. XVII. p. 9. 



t%. 22 — 30 mm. (one exceptional specimen 34 mm.). Head and thorax fuscous 

 or brown, more or less irrorated with whitish. Antennae in <? shortly and evenly 

 ciliated, setae moderate. Forewings brown or fuscous, sometimes ferruginous-tinged, 

 variably irrorated with whitish and strigulated with dark fuscous ; first and second lines 

 whitish or whitish-ochreous or yellow-ochreous or obsolete, first strongly and evenly 

 curved, second slightly irregular, sinuate inwards on lower half, included median band 

 sometimes partly blackish-edged, or wholly suffused with dark fuscous, or with a discal 

 blotch or whole dorsal half blackish ; reniform sometimes indicated by a dark fuscous 

 transverse mark ; usually a darker praesubterminal suffusion, marked on costal half with 

 a series of dark fuscous spots, sometimes obsolete ; usually an oblique darker shade 

 from apex, preceded by a pale suffusion. Hindwings dark grey; a darker discal dot. 

 (Plate HI. figs. 2, 2a — 2 g.) 



130 specimens; 29 Kona, Hawaii, at 2000 — 4000 feet ; 6 Olaa, Hawaii, at 2000 

 feet ; i Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 feet ; 1 1 Kaholuamano, Kauai ; 31 Waianae Mts., 

 Oahu, at 1500 — I 700 feet ; 19 Waialua, Koolau range, Oahu ; 3 Kaala Mts., Oahu ; 29 

 Lanai, at 2000 feet ; i Molokai, at 4000 feet ; from February to May, in July, and from 

 September to November. Also several specimens in British Museum collection. Mr 

 Blackburn records the species from Maui, as well as other islands. Exceedingly 

 variable in colour and intensity of marking. 



CosMOPHiLA Boisd. 



Head loosely scaled, with short frontal tuft. Antennae in t ciliated, with longer 

 setae on each joint. Palpi rather long, curved, ascending, second joint thickened with 



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