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of black dots: cilia fuscous, mixed or spotted with whitish. Hindwings grey, some- 

 times suffused with whitish in disc ; two obliquely placed darker discal dots ; second 

 line waved, whitish, sometimes nearly obsolete ; a terminal series of blackish spots ; cilia 

 whitish, sometimes mixed with grey, with a darker grey basal line. (Plate V. fig. 26.) 



6 specimens ; 4 Olaa, Hawaii, at 2000 feet ; i Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 feet ; 

 I Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 4000 feet ; in April, June, August, and November. The 

 locality of the original specimen received from Mr Blackburn was unrecorded. Those 

 now obtained show a considerable range of variation. 



(12) Phlyctaenia platyleuca, sp. nov. 



t%. 22 — 25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-ochreous irrorated with 

 blackish, sometimes partially mixed with whitish. Abdomen ochreous-fuscous or rather 

 dark fuscous, segmental margins in t white. Legs dark fuscous ringed with white, 

 posterior tibiae suffused with whitish. Forewings fuscous or dark fuscous, irrorated 

 with light yellowish ; a dark fuscous spot near base, and usually another larger beyond 

 it towards dorsum ; first line black, somewhat bent in middle, interrupted above middle, 

 in one t thick, anteriorly white-edged towards dorsum, posteriorly suffused ; roundish 

 orbicular and 8-shaped discal spot outlined with black ; in one Z median band beyond 

 middle wholly suffused with white, in two $s only a patch of white suffusion between 

 discal spot and second line, in other .^s none ; second line blackish, posteriorly 

 sometimes more or less whitish-edged, waved, sinuate-curved to rather near termen, 

 at f rectangularly broken inwards to below discal spot ; a spot of dark fuscous suffusion 

 towards costa beyond this ; posterior half of costa indistinctly dark-spotted ; a terminal 

 series of dark fuscous spots, in one Z separated by white dots : cilia dark fuscous, apical 

 half obscurely pale-spotted. Hindwings fuscous, in % darker posteriorly ; two obliquely 

 placed darker discal dots ; second line faintly darker ; a terminal series of dark fuscous 

 dots ; cilia as in forewings. 



6 specimens ; 5 Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet, in April and May ; i Olaa, Hawaii 

 (without white suffusion), at 2000 feet, in November. 



(13) Phlyctaenia metasema, sp. nov. 



^ ?. 15 — 23 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-ochreous, more or less 

 irrorated with dark fuscous ; palpi 3, base white beneath. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, 

 irrorated with dark fuscous, segmental margins white on middle of back. Legs dark 

 fuscous, ringed with white, posterior tibiae whitish. Forewings light ochreous-fuscous, 

 more ochreous in $, more or less irrorated with dark fuscous, sometimes more or 

 less tinged with dull reddish or ferruginous suffusion ; first line waved, blackish, 



