MACROLEPIDOPTERA 225 



Protocolletis constricta Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 224. 



No examples of this species were included in the collection. The original specimens 

 were bred from larvae feeding between spun leaves of an unidentified plant on the 

 mountains near Honolulu, Oahu. 



(10) Pyrausta phaethontia, sp. nov. 



$. 33 — 2,1 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-ferruginous, palpi 4, crimson- 

 tinged, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-yellowish, sprinkled with 

 crimson-ferruginous. Legs ochreous-yellowish, more or less suffused with crimson- 

 ferruginous. Forewings ochreous-yellowish, densely irrorated or wholly suffused with 

 crimson-ferruginous ; small orbicular and transverse discal spot infuscated but very 

 obscure and undefined ; second line darker, hardly traceable, rather curved on upper 

 portion, sinuate beneath costa, apparently forming a loop inwards beneath discal spot : 

 cilia ferruginous-purplish, somewhat whitish-mixed. Hindwings light ochreous- 

 yellowish ; two obliquely placed rosy-grey discal dots ; a faint rosy-grey waved line 

 beyond f ; apex more or less rosy-suffused ; cilia purple, tips paler. (Plate VI. fig. 5.) 



5 specimens ; 4 Olaa, Hawaii ; i Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 feet ; in June, Sep- 

 tember, and December. 



Mecyna Steph. 

 (i) Mecyna au7'ora Butl. 



Anemosa aurora Butl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. 1881, p. 327. 



Mecyna aurora Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 225. 



(Plate VL fig. 6.) 



A single specimen, without locality ; it is a female (this sex being previously 

 unknown), expanding 18 mm., but not differing in any way from the male. By an 

 unfortunate perversity the locality of Mr Blackburn's specimens has also escaped 

 record. 



(2) Mecyna virescens Butl. 



Mecyna virescens Butl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. 1881, p. 329; Meyr. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 188S, p. 225. 



41 specimens: 28 Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 feet; 2 Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet; 

 7 Waianae Mts., Oahu, at 2000 feet ; 2 Halemanu, Kauai ; 2 Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 

 4000 feet ; from March to September. Bred by Mr Blackburn from larvae feeding on 

 an Acacia (?), on Haleakala ; 14 specimens sent by him. 



