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with black and ferruginous, thorax usually with central and posterior white marks, 

 palpi 1^—2. Abdomen blackish mixed with ferruginous, segmental margins white. 

 Legs dark fuscous ringed with white, posterior tibiae whitish above. Forewings dark 

 purplish-slaty-fuscous, towards base and costa somewhat ferruginous-mixed ; first line 

 sinuate or nearly straight, vertical, whitish, nearly preceded by a similar line, space 

 between them suffused with reddish-ochreous and whitish except on costa, followed 

 by a thick fascia of blackish suffusion, forming a triangular projection below middle : 

 orbicular round, blackish, upper half usually filled with reddish-ochreous ; discal spot 

 8-shaped, black-outlined, thickened laterally, more or less filled with reddish-ochreous ; 

 two small indistinct reddish-ochreous costal spots above this ; second line dentate, 

 black, posteriorly partially edged with some white and reddish-ochreous scales, fine 

 and indistinct except towards costa, middle third curved outwards, followed by an 

 elongate reddish-ochreous costal patch including two dark fuscous costal spots, and 

 beneath this edged by a white mark becoming reddish-ochreous posteriorly ; a terminal 

 series of minute white dots : cilia dark fuscous, with apical series of whitish dots. 

 Hindwings rather dark fuscous, darker terminally; two obliquely placed darker discal 

 dots ; cilia dark fuscous, apical half spotted with whitish. 



12 specimens; 9 Kona, Hawaii, from 2000 to 4000 feet; 3 Mts. Waimea, Kauai, 

 at 4000 feet ; from May to September. Also recorded from Haleakala, Maui, at 4000 

 feet, by Mr Blackburn, from whom I received 14 specimens. 



(11) Phlyctaenia eucrena Meyr. 



Scapula eucrena Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 218. 



^%. 14 — 17 mm. Head and thorax reddish-ochreous, sometimes partially or 

 wholly suffused with black, sometimes more or less marked with white. Palpi 2^, 

 reddish-ochreous or blackish above, broadly white beneath. Abdomen pale ochreous 

 mixed with black, segmental margins white. Legs dark fuscous ringed with white, 

 anterior and middle tibiae suffused with reddish-ochreous, posterior tibiae white with 

 two black rings. Forewings brownish-ochreous, slightly reddish-tinged ; first and 

 second lines thick, white, first sinuate or nearly straight, vertical, anteriorly partially 

 black-edged or sometimes preceded by a black blotch, posteriorly edged on lower 

 half with some black or grey scales, second irregular, at f abruptly broken inwards 

 to beneath discal spot, anteriorly edged with some black scales ; included median 

 space wholly suffused with white, except partial black outline of orbicular, sometimes 

 a costal spot above it, and a costal blotch before second line partially or wholly suff"used 

 with black and representing discal spot ; in one specimen second line mostly suffused 

 with black except on costa ; costa posteriorly spotted with blackish, or sometimes 

 occupied by a blackish suffusion including two white costal dots; a terminal series 



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