226 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



LOXOSTEGE Hub. 



1. Forewings reddish-brown (/) conisalias. 



„ orange or ochreous 2. 



2. First and second lines well-marked (j) helioxantha. 



„ „ absent {2) nielanopis. 



(i) Loxostege conisalias, sp. nov. 



^. 19 — 23 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-ochreous, more or less 

 ferruginous-tinged. Antennal ciliations \ (longer at base). Palpi 4^, ferruginous, 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous. Forewings with termen rather sinuate beneath apex : 

 reddish-brown, sprinkled with dark fuscous ; median band more or less suffused with 

 dark fuscous, anterior edge very ill-defined, posterior moderately curved to below 

 middle, thence rectangularly broken inwards to below discal spot ; discal spot small, 

 white, surrounded by darker suffusion : cilia pale fuscous, with two dark fuscous lines. 

 Hindwings light fuscous ; cilia whitish-fuscous, with fuscous subbasal line. 



3 specimens, Hilo, Hawaii, at 2000 feet, in December and January. 



(2) Loxostege melanopis, sp. nov. 



^. 21 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen reddish-ochreous, palpi 4^, 

 sprinkled with black, abdomen ferruginous-suffused. Antennal ciliations i. Forewings 

 with termen faintly sinuate beneath apex ; orange-ochreous, suffusedly sprinkled with 

 ferruginous ; costal edge blackish except towards apex ; round orbicular and 8-shaped 

 discal spot blackish : cilia apparently ochreous with blackish lines (imperfect). Hind- 

 wings pale yellowish-ochreous, suffusedly irrorated with grey except on a terminal band ; 

 two indistinct obliquely placed darker discal dots; cilia ochreous-whitish. (Plate VI. 

 fig- 7-) 



I specimen, Olaa, Hawaii, at 2000 feet, in November. 



(3) Loxostege helioxantha, sp. nov. 



¥• 32 — 34 mm. Head and thorax light orange, shoulders reddish-brown. Palpi 

 6, ochreous, more or less suffusedly irrorated with reddish and sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen light yellow-ochreous. Forewings with termen not sinuate ; vein 

 10 sometimes stalked with 9 ; light orange, veins more or less marked with grey-reddish 

 suffusion ; costal edge dark fuscous on anterior half ; first and second lines grey-reddish, 

 first angulated in middle, second slightly waved, curved, indented beneath costa, below 



