2 28 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



femora pale coppery-golden. Forewings fuscous-blackish ; a patch occupying basal 

 fourth, produced on costa, a very broad fascia of irroration beyond middle, becoming 

 uniform on costal half anteriorly, and a rather narrow terminal fascia shining bluish- 

 leaden : cilia fuscous, basal f blackish-fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous, with coppery 

 reflections, somewhat lighter towards base; cilia as in forewings. (Plate VI. fig. 9.) 



I specimen, Molokai, at 4000 feet. 



Me.STO LOBES Btitl. 



The characters given may be augmented as follows : hindwings with veins 3 and 4 

 connate or stalked, 7 frequently separate from 6, anastomosing more or less with 8 ; in ^ 

 sometimes with subdorsal groove as in Orthomecyna, dorsal lobe sometimes modified 

 into a pocket beneath, with or without costal hair-pencil or ridge of curled hairs. 



1. Forewings with groundcolour uniform blackish or dark fuscous 2. 



„ ,, not uniform dark fuscous 10. 



2. Forewings with several violet-blue-metallic spots in disc {i) amethystias. 



„ without such spots 3. 



3. Forewings wholly without markings (j) sir in a. 



„ with more or less marking 4. 



4. Forewings with white antemedian dorsal spot {8) epidelia. 



„ without such spot 5. 



5. Forewings with four shining leaden fasciae (2) chrysomolybda. 



„ without such fasciae 6. 



6. Palpi wholly whitish {4) crypsichrysa. 



,, not whitish 7. 



7. Forewings with termen concave beneath apex {^) eriitnys. 



„ „ not concave 8. 



8. Forewings with lines orange or ferruginous-mixed 9. 



„ „ not orange or ferruginous {6) ardura. 



9. Forewings with discal spot indicated (11) ombrias. 



,, „ obsolete (j) xant/wsda. 



10. Hindwings whitish or yellowish, at least in disc 11. 



„ not whitish or yellowish in disc 21. 



11. Forewings with basal third almost wholly whitish 12. 



,, ,, not wholly whitish 13. 



12. Hindwings with terminal dark fascia entire [22) chlorolychna. 



„ „ not reaching below middle {24) semiochrea. 



13. Hindwings with entire dark terminal band with median projection 



inwards 14. 



„ without band so formed .. 15. 



14. Hindwings with costal hair-pencil {18) fiessias $ . 



„ without costal hair-pencil {21) inesacma $ . 



15. Palpi fuscous 16. 



,, mostly ochreous-whitish or yellowish 18. 



16. Posterior tibiae with black projecting scales (ij) sc/eropis d . 



„ without black scales 17. 



