26o FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



spot, broadest above ; an irregular rhomboidal black apical blotch, enclosing a white 

 costal strigula, and double white anteapical spot ; a terminal series of confluent black 

 dots, partly absorbed in this : cilia white, barred with grey, with dark grey subbasal 

 line. Hindwings grey, suffused with darker towards termen ; cilia grey-whitish, with 

 grey basal line. 



29 specimens; 23 Olaa, Hawaii, at 2000 feet; 6 Hilo, Hawaii, at 2000 feet; 

 in January, June, July, and November. 



(25) Scoparia ombrodes Meyr. 



Xeroscopa ombrodes Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 234. 



$%. 13 — 16 mm. Head and thorax blackish mixed with whitish. Palpi blackish, 

 base and tips whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings white or ochreous-white, variably 

 irrorated or suffusedly mixed with black ; an undefined irregular oblique almost basal 

 fascia, narrowed on costa ; first line white, curved, oblique, edged posteriorly with 

 blackish suffusion ; orbicular and claviform small, round, black, separate, vertically 

 placed ; discal 8-shaped, black, connected above with costa, lower half filled with white, 

 upper half sometimes whitish-mixed ; second line white, more or less blackish-edged 

 anteriorly, terminal area beyond this black ; subterminal line white, connected with 

 second in middle, interrupted above this ; a terminal series of white dots : cilia whitish, 

 more or less barred with fuscous, with a dark fuscous antemedian line. Hindwings 

 in ^ pale grey, in % grey, darker terminally ; cilia whitish or whitish-grey, with grey 

 subbasal line. (Plate VII. fig. 14.) 



41 specimens; 15 Kona, Hawaii, at 1500 — 4000 feet; 2 Olaa, Hawaii; 4 Lanai, 

 at 2000 feet; 7 Molokai, at 3000 feet; 9 Waianae Mts., Oahu, at 1500 feet; 2 Mts. 

 Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 feet ; i Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 4000 feet ; i Lihui, Kauai, at 

 1500 feet; from February to September. The two original specimens sent by 

 Mr Blackburn were without note of locality. 



(26) Scoparia siderina, sp. nov. 



Z%. 14 — 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous-grey, base of palpi white. 

 Abdomen fuscous. Forewings rather dark shining ashy-grey ; a slender blackish 

 subbasal fascia ; an irregular transverse blackish blotch- on costa before middle, reaching 

 half across wing, connected with dorsum by an undefined blackish line ; traces of 

 a very undefined postmedian band of fuscous suffusion ; a small undefined blackish 

 spot on costa at f , sometimes preceded and followed by dots of ochreous-white suffusion: 

 cilia ashy-grey. Hindwings grey, darker terminally ; cilia grey. (Plate VII. fig. 15.) 



1 2 specimens ; 7 Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 feet ; 4 Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 

 4000 feet ; i Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet ; from April to June, and in October. 



