MACROLEPIDOPTERA 233 



(11) Mestolobes ombrias, sp. nov. 



i%. 14— 15 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs rather dark fuscous. 

 Forewings rather dark fuscous, faintly purplish-tinged; first and second lines thick, 

 dark fuscous, slightly ferruginous-tinged or obscurely mixed with ferruginous centrally, 

 first at f , slightly curved, second at f , obtusely angulated about middle, sometimes 

 followed on costa by a small whitish spot ; an undefined 8-shaped discal spot similarly 

 coloured ; sometimes an undefined darker subterminal shade : cilia fuscous, with dark 

 fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings blackish-fuscous; in ^ with very small dorsal lobe 

 ending in tuft of fuscous or whitish-fuscous hairs, but without costal hair-pencil ; cilia 

 fuscous, basal third dark fuscous. (Plate VI. fig. 15.) 



5 specimens ; 3 Lanai, at 3000 feet, in July ; 2 Molokai, at 3000 feet, in August 

 and September. 



(12) Mestolobes banausa, sp. nov. 



Z- 14 — 15 mm. Head and thorax ochreous or fuscous, more or less mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Palpi rather dark fuscous. Abdomen rather dark fuscous, some- 

 what ochreous-sprinkled. Legs dark fuscous ringed with whitish, posterior tibiae 

 suffused with whitish. Forewings fuscous, mixed with dark fuscous ; an irregular 

 blackish subbasal line on costal half; dorsal area before first lines sometimes suffused 

 with light yellow-ochreous ; first line mixed with ochreous and blackish, angulated 

 above middle, sometimes preceded by a similar whitish line ; upper half of median 

 area more or less strewn with whitish ; an 8-shaped ochreous discal spot, edged with 

 blackish ; second line blackish, marked with ochreous towards costa, posteriorly more 

 or less completely edged with white, rather irregular, angulated in middle ; subterminal 

 line more or less indicated with ochreous and whitish : cilia fuscous, with dark fuscous 

 subbasal line, on upper half of termen obscurely barred with whitish. Hindwings 

 dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; in ^ with moderate dorsal lobe, ending in tuft of 

 whitish hairs, but no costal hair-pencil ; cilia fuscous-whitish, basal third dark fuscous. 



%. Lighter and more ochreous-tinged generally ; forewings with first line almost 

 straight, preceding whitish line thicker and more distinct ; hindwings lighter or some- 

 times suffusedly whitish-ochreous towards base. 



7 specimens, Kona, Hawaii, at 4000—5000 feet, in July and August. 



(13) Mestolobes mimiscula Butl. 



Boreophila mimiscula Butl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. 1881, p. 325. 

 Mestolobes simaethina id. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 38. 

 Mestolobes mimiscula Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 230. 



