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form together a conspicuous fascia, edged posteriorly with blackish suffusion ; orbicular 

 and claviform roundish, blackish, undefined, separate, orbicular somewhat obliquely 

 beyond claviform ; discal 8-shaped, blackish, halves filled with whitish or upper half 

 mostly suffused with blackish ; second line ochreous-whitish, well-defined ; terminal 

 area beyond it suffused with blackish, subterminal line cloudy, ochreous-whitish, 

 confluent in middle with second, interrupted above this ; a terminal series of whitish 

 dots : cilia ochreous-whitish, more or less indistinctly barred with grey, with a dark 

 fuscous antemedian line. Hindwings light grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia grey-whitish, 

 with grey subbasal line. 



5 specimens ; 3 Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet ; 2 Lanai, at 2000 feet ; in January, 

 May, and December. 



(43) Scoparia demodes Meyr. 



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



%. 17 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, mixed with white. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 base white, second joint somewhat mixed with white, at least at apex. Forewings 

 white, irregularly irrorated with fuscous or ochreous-fuscous ; a narrow irregular almost 

 basal blackish fascia ; first line white, oblique, curved, indented in middle, edged 

 posteriorly with blackish suffusion, space between this and subbasal fascia appearing 

 to form a broad whitish band ; orbicular and claviform merged in the dark suffusion or 

 obsolete ; discal undefined, 8-shaped, partially blackish-edged laterally, lower half 

 whitish-filled ; second and subterminal lines white, defined or cloudy, confluent in 

 middle ; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots : cilia ochreous-whitish, indistinctly 

 barred with fuscous, with a darker fuscous antemedian line. Hindwings pale fuscous, 

 darker posteriorly ; cilia whitish, with a grey subbasal line. 



I specimen, Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 feet, in May ; in conjunction with which 

 I have redescribed the original type, which entirely agrees with it, and may probably 

 be from the same island, though its locality is not recorded. 



(44) Scoparia dacty/wpa, sp. nov. 



^ ?. 18 — 21 mm. Head and thorax white mixed with dark fuscous. Palpi dark 

 fuscous mixed with whitish, with a blackish median band, base white. Abdomen 

 fuscous, mixed with whitish. Forewings white, irrorated with fuscous and black ; 

 an undefined narrow blackish almost basal fascia ; first line white, oblique, rather 

 curved, indented in middle, edged posteriorly with black suffusion ; orbicular somewhat 

 reniform, clear white, black-edged, touching black suffusion of first line ; claviform very 



