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lower margin, where it is confluent with a dark fuscous blotch occupying anterior half 

 of median band and extending to dorsum ; discal spot irregularly pentagonal, blackish- 

 fuscous, white-edged ; second line slender, white, anteriorly dark-edged, preceded by a 

 broad band of whitish suffusion, middle third strongly curved outwards : cilia fuscous, 

 mixed with dark fuscous and whitish. Hindwings fuscous ; a darker discal dot ; an 

 indistinct darker postmedian line ; cilia whitish, spotted with fuscous, with a dark 

 fuscous subbasal line. (Plate VI. fig. 2.) 



2 specimens ; i Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 feet ; i Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 

 4000 feet ; in April and May. 



(3) Pyrausta dryadopa, sp. nov. 



^%. 21 — 22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale whitish-ochreous, shoulders with 

 a few dark fuscous specks, palpi 3^, thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous and dark fuscous, segmental margins whitish. 

 Legs whitish, banded with dark fuscous irroration, posterior tibiae wholly whitish. 

 Forewings in ^ with termen strongly sinuate below apex ; pale whitish-ochreous, 

 sprinkled with brownish or dark fuscous ; first line pale, edged posteriorly with dark 

 fuscous on lower half, obtusely angulated outwards in middle, and more sharply 

 inwards near dorsum ; roundish orbicular and 8-shaped discal spot outlined with 

 brownish or dark fuscous, space between them pale, discal dark-centred ; a dark fuscous 

 costal dot above discal spot ; second line pale, waved, edged anteriorly with dark 

 fuscous, upper f moderately curved outwards, thence rectangularly broken inwards to 

 beneath discal spot ; costal area beyond this wholly pale except two dark fuscous dots ; 

 terminal area in $ suffused with dark fuscous from beneath apex to below middle ; a 

 terminal series of dark fuscous dots : cilia whitish-ochreous with two dark fuscous lines, 

 and barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings fuscous-whitish, in % irrorated with fuscous ; 

 two obliquely placed dark fuscous discal dots ; a waved, darker fuscous postmedian 

 line ; a darker subterminal shade, leaving a whitish terminal line, marked with a series 

 of black dots ; cilia whitish, with two indistinct interrupted fuscous lines. 



3 specimens ; i Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 feet ; i Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 

 4000 feet ; i Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet ; in April and May. 



(4) Pyrausta chloropis, sp. nov. 



t%- 20 — 25 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen whitish-ochreous, more or 

 less brownish-tinged and irrorated with dark fuscous, palpi 3:5 — 4, whitish beneath. 

 Legs ochreous-whitish, indistinctly banded with dark fuscous. Forewings whitish- 

 ochreous, irrorated with dark brown ; a dark fuscous suffusion on base of costa ; first 

 and second lines dark fuscous, waved, first bent in middle, posteriorly pale-edged. 



