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(9) Scotorythra hecataea, sp. nov. 



?. 39 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous. Antennae whitish-ochreous, 

 suffusedly ringed with fuscous. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous. Legs pale greyish-ochreous, mottled with dark fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, termen hardly waved, faintly sinuate beneath apex, bowed, oblique ; 

 pale greyish-ochreous, irregularly strigulated with dark fuscous ; first line ferruginous, 

 strongly curved above middle ; a broad cloudy straight median shade of ferruginous 

 and fuscous suffusion, in which is placed a curved-linear transverse whitish discal mark ; 

 second line faintly whitish, edged anteriorly by a series of ferruginous dots parallel to 

 termen throughout ; a terminal band of ferruginous suffusion, terminated above by an 

 oblique subapical streak, and enclosing a slender pale subterminal line. Hindwings 

 with termen waved ; light grey, sprinkled with dark grey ; a fine indistinct dark grey 

 postmedian dotted line. 



I specimen, Waimea Mts., Kauai, at 4000 feet, in May. This species seems to 

 stand rather isolated ; the form of the second line of the forewings is rather peculiar, 

 and the sinuate termen, curved-linear pale discal mark, broad median shade, and 

 ferruginous colouring are characteristic features. 



(10) Scotorythra trapezius, sp. nov. 



Z%. 26 — 35 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, sometimes darker or reddish-tinged, 

 thorax with two small posterior whitish tufts, crown and thorax sometimes spotted with 

 whitish. Antennae whitish, irregularly spotted with dark fuscous, pectinations 6 — 7, 

 irregularly blotched. Abdomen pale fuscous sprinkled with darker, in ^ \\. Legs 

 dark fuscous irregularly spotted with pale whitish-ochreous, posterior tibiae in ^ rather 

 dilated, enclosing a pale brownish-ochreous hair-pencil, posterior tarsi in t f • Forewings 

 somewhat elongate-triangular, termen bowed, rather oblique ; brownish-ochreous or 

 fuscous, usually somewhat reddish-tinged, with scattered black scales, veins in one 

 specimen pale ochreous-yellow ; first line darker, on upper half stronger and blackish, 

 sometimes dilated anteriorly to form a blackish spot above middle, somewhat bent near 

 costa, acutely angulated in middle, sinuate inwards towards dorsum ; a trapezoidal 

 lighter or sometimes white blotch occupying cell beyond this, broadest above, upper 

 edge parallel to costa, posterior edge formed by a sinuate inwardly oblique fine blackish 

 line, sometimes followed by a blackish suffusion which in one specimen invades lower 

 portion of the blotch (perhaps representing median line, which is not otherwise 

 indicated) ; discal spot crescentic, yellow-ochreous or whitish-ochreous or more often 

 quite obsolete, sometimes partially irregularly edged with black ; sometimes a whitish 



