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^. 13— 14mm. Forewings with lines sometimes little marked; an ochreous 

 8-shaped discal spot obscurely darker-outlined ; otherwise sufficiently described. 



3 specimens, Waianae Mts., Oahu, in April. Mr Blackburn's examples were from 

 the same island " in mountains near Honolulu." 



(25) Mestolobes pragmatica, sp. nov. 



<?. 13 — 14 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, thinly mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous, segmental margins more or 

 less broadly ochreous-whitish, beneath with two small curled ochreous-whitish tufts near 

 base. Legs whitish, anterior and middle pair banded with dark fuscous. Forewings 

 fuscous, partially ochreous-tinged, mixed with dark fuscous, especially on median band, 

 which is sometimes wholly suffused with dark fuscous ; basal area irregularly mixed and 

 spotted with white ; first and second lines white, first sinuate, forming a wedge-shaped 

 projection inwards in middle, second slender, curved outwards from :j to f ; an 8-shaped 

 discal spot obscurely indicated : cilia ochreous-whitish, with a dark fuscous line. 

 Hindwings ochreous-white ; a moderate irregular dark fuscous fascia along upper half 

 of termen ; a rather long whitish dorsal lobe, ending in a tuft of whitish hairs of which 

 apical third is black ; no costal hair-pencil ; cilia ochreous-whitish, with fuscous subbasal 

 line on upper half of termen. 



4 specimens, Olaa, Hawaii, from July to September. 



(26) Mestolobes abnormis Butl. 



Metasia abfwrmis Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 35 (?). 



Mestolobes oenone id. 1. c, p. 37 (^). 



Mestolobes abnormis Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc Lond. 1888, p. 228. 



Sufficiently described ; but the tufts of the dorsal lobe, which I have described as 

 black, should have been correctly described as having the apical portion black, the rest 

 whitish. 



I specimen, Panoa Valley, Oahu, in November; this is a variety having an 

 oblique trapezoidal ochreous-white blotch in disc of forewings, extending from above 

 middle of first line to termen above tornus, but otherwise normal. Six specimens 

 received from Mr Blackburn, who took them flying in the sunshine in a torrent-bed 

 near Honolulu, Oahu. 



(27) Mestolobes autodoxa, sp. nov. 



t%. 12— 14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, sometimes ochreous-tinged. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous, segmental margins in t whitish towards base. Legs whitish, 



