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unevenly waved ; pale grey, posteriorly darker-strigulated ; a pale dark-edged crescentic 

 discal mark ; a bisinuate postmedian series of dark grey dots. 



2 specimens, Olaa, Hawaii, in September. Nearly allied to 6". pachyspila, but 

 distinguished from it and all other species by the clear whitish-ochreous dorsal edge and 

 terminal cilia of the forewings. 



(26) Scotorythra brachytarsa, sp. nov. 



t 42—45 "im., % 46 — 52 mm. Head fuscous to ochreous-brownish, seldom 

 ferruginous or whitish. Antennae ochreous-whitish or (in %) pale ochreous, spotted 

 with dark fuscous, pectinations 8, blackish-lined. Thorax fuscous or ochreous-brown, 

 often with a more or less developed white or ochreous-yellowish posterior dot or 

 spot. Abdomen pale fuscous, in t i^- Anterior and middle legs dark fuscous, femora 

 paler, dark-spotted ; posterior legs ochreous-white marbled with fuscous, tibiae in ^ 

 considerably dilated, enclosing an ochreous-whitish hair-pencil, tarsi in ^ ^. Forewings 

 rather elongate-triangular, termen moderately waved, bowed, rather oblique ; rather 

 dark fuscous, in $ sometimes suffused with ferruginous or ochreous-brown, median 

 band sometimes enclosed (mostly in %) by broad lighter ochreous-brown fasciae ; first 

 and second lines formed of indistinct dark fuscous dots, often accompanied by whitish 

 dots, in % sometimes connected by waved dark lines, first curved, second sinuate 

 inwards above middle and towards dorsum ; discal spot narrow, crescentic, often 

 pale or white or ochreous-yellow, sometimes only obscurely dark-outlined, followed 

 by a faint darker median shade ; subterminal line in % often obscurely pale, waved, 

 in ^ only indicated by traces of a dark preceding shade ; a terminal series of dark 

 fuscous dots. Hindwings with termen gently waved ; whitish-fuscous, becoming 

 fuscous posteriorly ; a series of dark fuscous dots at | ; in ^ a dark grey discal dot. 

 (Plate V. fig. 3.) 



89 specimens; 88 Olaa, Hawaii, in June, September, November, and December; 

 I Hilo, Hawaii, at 2000 feet, in January. A variable species ; the t is distinguished 

 from all others by the unusually short posterior tarsi ; the $ is sometimes only separable 

 from S. vara by the more waved termen of the forewings, but is not by any means so 

 variable as that species, and is not found in the same localities. 



(27) Scotorythra vara Butl. 



Scotosia vara Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xv. p. 273 ; ib. .wii. p. 8. 



^ 39 — 46 mm., % 45 — 55 mm. Head and thorax brown to dark fuscous, often 

 ferruginous-tinged, crown of head seldom whitish, thorax seldom with whitish posterior 

 spot. Antennae in i ochreous-whitish, spotted with dark fuscous, pectinations 8, 

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