234 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



Abdomen in $ beneath with two short tufts of yellowish hairs near base ; fore- 

 wings seldom with median band wholly ochreous ; otherwise sufficiently described. 



70 specimens ; 3 Olaa, Hawaii, at 2000 feet ; 2 Kona, Hawaii, at 2000 feet ; 

 6 Kilauea, Hawaii ; i Wailuku, Maui ; 5 Molokai, at 3000 feet ; 20 Waianae Mts., 

 Oahu, at 1400 — 2000 feet; 3 Kaala Mts., Oahu, at 1000 — 2000 feet; i Lanai, at 

 2000 feet ; 27 Lihui, Kauai, at 1500 feet; 2 Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 4000 feet : from 

 February to September, and in November. Also 16 specimens received from 

 Mr Blackburn, who records it from Haleakala, Maui, at 4000 feet. 



(14) Mestolobes ochrias, sp. nov. 



^. II — 12 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax yellow-ochreous. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous, towards base suffused with yellow-ochreous, segmental margins pale ochreous, 

 beneath with two yellowish tufts near base. Legs pale ochreous-yellowish or whitish- 

 ochreous, anterior and middle pairs sometimes partially banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings yellow-ochreous or whitish-ochreous, fuscous-sprinkled ; costa marked with 

 very undefined spots of blackish irroration ; upper half of subbasal line indicated by 

 blackish irroration ; first and second lines somewhat deeper yellow-ochreous, first 

 rather curved, edged with a few dark fuscous scales, preceded by an indistinct whitish 

 fuscous-edged line, second moderately curved, sinuate towards dorsum, posteriorly 

 edged with blackish and followed by a distinct whitish line ; a terminal series of 

 cloudy dark fuscous dots : cilia fuscous-whitish with blackish subbasal and grey 

 postmedian line. Hindwings dark fuscous, rather lighter anteriorly ; a moderate 

 dorsal lobe ending in a tuft of ochreous-yellow hairs, and an ochreous-yellow costal 

 hair-pencil ; cilia whitish, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



2 specimens, Waianae Mts., Oahu, at 2000 feet, in April. 



(15) Mestolobes scleropis, sp. nov. 



,??. 16— 19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, mixed with pale and dark. 

 Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Legs in $ whitish, posterior tibiae roughened with 

 black scales on apical half above, in $ fuscous, whitish-ringed. Forewings fuscous, 

 more or less mixed with dark fuscous and sometimes with fuscous-whitish ; subbasal 

 line blackish-fuscous on upper half; first and second lines obscurely pale, more or 

 less edged with ochreous suffusion mixed with blackish-fuscous, first rather curved, 

 second irregularly curved, more strongly on median third ; an ochreous 8-shaped 

 discal spot, edged with dark fuscous ; a terminal series of small cloudy blackish-fuscous 

 spots: cilia fuscous, paler-mixed, with dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings dark 



