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triangular spot: cilia white. Hindwings whitish-grey, suffused with grey towards 

 termen, sometimes with a pale posterior line; cilia white. (Plate VII. fig. 5.) 



1 1 specimens ; 3 Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 feet ; 5 Olaa, Hawaii, at 2000 feet ; 3 

 Hilo, Hawaii, at 2000 feet; in July, September, November, and December. 



(6) Scoparia passalota, sp. nov. 



,??. 16— 20 mm. Head white, face sometimes with blackish bar. Palpi 

 blackish, base and tips white. Thora.x white, a spot on shoulders and central 

 dorsal spot black. Abdomen greyish-ochreous, segmental margins whitish. Fore- 

 wings white, more or less sprinkled with black, dorsal half sometimes mixed with 

 grey and irrorated with black ; a moderate black almost basal fascia, sharply angu- 

 lated in middle ; a narrow oblique black fascia from beyond \ of costa to before 

 middle of dorsum, posterior edge with strong upwards-oblique subquadrate median 

 projection ; a moderate oblique black bar from costa before f , reaching half across 

 wing, lower extremity excavated ; anterior edge of second line more or less distinctly 

 blackish, forming small spots at extremities ; a rhomboidal black praetornal spot, 

 broadest above ; an inwardly oblique oblong black anteapical spot, connected beneath 

 with a triangular black spot on middle of termen ; a terminal series of undefined 

 black dots : cilia pale fuscous, somewhat whitish-mixed, with interrupted darker 

 subbasal line. Hindwings pale grey, terminally suffused with grey ; cilia fuscous- 

 whitish, with light fuscous subbasal line. 



8 specimens ; 7 Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet ; i Lahaina, Maui, at 3000 feet ; 

 in April and May. Undoubtedly allied to the preceding species in essential 

 characters, though differing much in the diffusion of black scales. 



(7) Scoparia orthoria, sp. nov. 



^ $. 14 — 16 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi black, tips and base white. 

 Thorax ochreous-white, shoulders and a central dorsal spot black. Abdomen pale 

 greyish-ochreous, segmental margins broadly white. Forewings ochreous-white ; a 

 very broad oblique black almost basal fascia ; a broad oblique black fascia from 

 beyond \ of costa to beyond middle of dorsum, narrowed beneath, produced on 

 dorsum posteriorly, on upper half confluent with subbasal fascia except on costa ; a 

 rather broad oblique black bar from costa before |, reaching half across wing, 

 lower extremity sometimes excavated, more or less confluent beneath with following 

 fascia ; a broad irregular black subterminal fascia, sometimes including a white costal 

 dot ; a terminal series of black dots, sometimes forming a median spot connected with 

 preceding fascia : cilia white. Hindwings grey-whitish or whitish-grey, terminally 

 suffused with grey; a suffused grey discal spot; cilia white. (Plate VII. fig. 6.) 



4 specimens, Olaa, Hawaii, at 2000 feet, in June, July, and November. 

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