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FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



(23) Phlydaenia pyranthes, sp. nov. 



^^. 19 23 mm. Head and thorax ferruginous-orange, patagia reddish. Palpi 



^1 4, ochreous-reddish, base white beneath. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, reddish- 

 tinged. Legs dark reddish, banded with white, middle pair almost wholly white. 

 Forewings yellow-ochreous, almost wholly suffused with purple-reddish ; lines obscurely 

 darker or almost obsolete, sometimes mixed or partly dotted with dark fuscous, first 

 bent in middle, second sometimes posteriorly pale-edged, curved on upper portion, 

 sinuate-indented near costa, below middle abruptly broken inwards to beneath discal 

 spot ; roundish orbicular and 8-shaped discal spot darker purple-reddish, sometimes 

 fuscous-tinged ; sometimes a terminal series of blackish dots : cilia dull purple or 

 purplish-grey, tips whitish. Hindwings pale whitish-ochreous, more or less rosy- 

 tinged, especially posteriorly ; two obliquely placed sometimes indistinct dark grey 

 discal dots ; sometimes an obscure grey postmedian line ; sometimes a terminal series 

 of dark fuscous dots; cilia rosy-whitish. (Plate V. fig. 31.) 



6 specimens; 2 Hilo, Hawaii, at 2000 feet, in January; 3 Mts. Waimea, Kauai, 

 at 4000 feet, in May and June ; i Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 4000 feet, in April. 



(24) PJdyctaenia heterodoxa, sp. nov. 



^ $. 17 — 21 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-ochreous, palpi 2^, white 

 towards base beneath. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Legs fuscous, posterior pair 

 whitish-fuscous. Forewings pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous, sometimes ferru- 

 ginous-tinged, especially towards base of costa and on terminal area, sometimes whitish- 

 suffused in disc ; orbicular and discal spots dot-like, rather dark fuscous, sometimes 

 obsolete ; second line straight or faintly sinuate, parallel to termen, in ^ whitish, edged 

 posteriorly with fuscous or dark fuscous suffusion, in $ obscurely paler, edged posteriorly 

 by ferruginous terminal area: cilia pale ochreous or ochreous-whitish. Hindwings in ^ 

 whitish, in % grey ; two indistinct grey obliquely placed discal dots ; an apical patch of 

 rather dark grey suffusion, margined anteriorly by traces of a postmedian line ; cilia in 

 ^ whitish, in % grey, ferruginous-tinged. (Plate V. fig. 32.) 



4 specimens, Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet, from March to May. 



Pyrausta Schranck. 



I have suppressed the genus Protocolletis Meyr., having shown elsewhere that the 

 character on which it was founded, the anastomosing- of vein 10 of the forewings with 

 9 towards base, occurs occasionally as an exceptional structure in several species of this 



