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ochreous-yellow, well-marked, confluent in middle: cilia fuscous-whitish, barred with 

 fuscous, with an interrupted dark fuscous antemedian line. Hindwings grey, darker 

 terminally ; cilia grey, more whitish basally, with a dark grey subbasal tine. 

 2 specimens, Molokai, at 4500 feet, in June and September. 



(41) Scoparia hawaiensis Bud. 



Scoparia hawaiensis Butl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. 1881, p. 330. 



Xeroscopa hawaiensis Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 235. 



t%- 15 — JS mm. Head ochreous-yellow on crown, sides somewhat mixed with 

 dark fuscous, face dark fuscous, somewhat sprinkled with yellowish, with blackish spots 

 before antennae. Palpi dark fuscous, base and tips whitish. Thorax yellow-whitish 

 mixed with blackish. Abdomen grey or pale greyish-ochreous, segmental margins 

 often whitish. Forewings yellow-whitish, irrorated or mixed with blackish ; a moderate 

 irregular oblique black almost basal fascia; first line yellow-whitish or pale yellow, 

 oblique, sinuate outwards above and below middle, closely preceded by and sometimes 

 partly confluent with a similar line, and followed by a more or less marked fascia 

 of black suffusion ; orbicular and claviform separate, black, usually suffused and 

 little defined, vertically placed ; discal 8-shaped, black, upper half wholly black or 

 only obscurely pale-centred, lower filled with yellow-whitish ; second line obscure, little 

 marked, followed on costa and dorsum by black spots ; a terminal series of black dots, 

 confluent in middle into a triangular spot : cilia whitish, barred with grey, with an 

 interrupted blackish antemedian line. Hindwings whitish-grey, towards termen grey- 

 suffused ; cilia whitish, with a grey line. 



83 specimens ; 54 Olaa, Hawaii ; 26 Hilo, Hawaii, at 2000 feet ; 2 Kona, Hawaii, 

 at 2000 and 4000 feet; i Molokai, at 4500 feet; in January, June, July, September, 

 November, and December. Mr Blackburn's specimens were from Mauna Kea, Hawaii, 

 at 7000 feet. This species can always be distinguished from S. empeda by the distinctly 

 yellow {sometimes almost orange) crown of the head. 1 am disposed to doubt the 

 Molokai locality. 



(42) Scoparia empeda, sp. nov. 



^ ?. 17— 20 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, face dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 base and tips whitish. Thorax ochreous-whitish, much mixed with blackish. Abdomen 

 fuscous, seo-mental margins sometimes whitish. Forewings ochreous-whitish, mixed 

 with blackish ; a nearly basal oblique undefined blackish fascia ; first line strong, 

 oblique, ochreous-whitish, preceded by a similar nearly confluent line, appearing to 

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