196 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



Ephestia Guen. 

 (i) Ephestia elutella Hub. 



(2) Ephestia ficulella Barr. (? desuetella Walk.). 



Of these three species no specimens were included ; their previous occurrence 

 is recorded in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 244; they are of course domestic and 

 artificially introduced, being now probably cosmopolitan. 



Ephestiodes Rag. 



The separation of this genus from Ephestia is perhaps unnecessary, but may 

 pass for the present. 



( 1 ) Ephestiodes gilvescentella Rag. 



Ephestiodes gilvescentella Rag. Diagn. N. Amer. Phyc. p. 16. E. infimella ib. 

 p. 16. E. erytJirella ib. p. 16. 



^%. II — 14 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi dark grey, sometimes whitish- 

 sprinkled, terminal joint very obtuse. Abdomen grey, apex whitish-ochreous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, somewhat dilated posteriorly, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 grey, irrorated with whitish and irregularly sprinkled with black, more or less suffused 

 with a pale reddish tinge ; lines cloudy, whitish, darker-edged internally, first slightly 

 curved, oblique, second almost straight ; two transversely placed dark fuscous discal 

 dots, sometimes nearly obsolete ; cilia grey, irrorated with whitish. Hindwings pale 

 grey, semitransparent ; veins and a suffused terminal line dark grey ; in ^ two very 

 small pale ochreous-yellowish subbasal tufts, upper appressed, lower erect. 



4 specimens, Molokai, in May. Occurs in North America. I have seen Ragonot's 

 types, which seem to me all to belong to the same species. 



HOMOEOSOMA Curt. 



Forewings with veins 4 and 5 stalked {2) ajnphihola. 



)) „ coincident (7) hiimeralis. 



(i) Homoeosoma humeralis Butl. 



Ephestia humeralis Butl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. 1881, p. 332. E. albosparsa 



ib. p. m- 

 Homoeosoma humeralis Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 244. 

 t%- 12 — 19 mm. Forewings very narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated; vein 5 



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