270 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



(47) Scoparia frigida Butl. 



Scoparia frigida Butl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. 1881, p. 331. 



^g. 17 — 19 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous mixed with whitish, head 

 sometimes mostly suffused with whitish. Palpi dark fuscous, base and tips white. 

 Abdomen fuscous. Forewings very narrow, whitish, irregularly mixed with fuscous ; 

 basal area with some dark fuscous scales tending to form longitudinal streaks ; first 

 line white, angulated below middle, upper portion straight or slightly curved, very 

 oblique, indistinctly edged posteriorly with dark fuscous ; orbicular small, irregular, 

 partly edged with blackish-fuscous, separate or connected with first line ; claviform 

 only indicated by some blackish-fuscous scales on angle of first line ; upper half of discal 

 incompletely margined with blackish-fuscous ; second and subterminal lines white, 

 rather thick, cloudy, confluent in middle, included spaces mixed or suffused with 

 dark fuscous ; a terminal series of cloudy dark fuscous dots : cilia white, with fuscous 

 subapical and dark fuscous antemedian lines. Hindwings rather light fuscous ; cilia 

 whitish, basal third fuscous. 



4 specimens ; 2 Lanai, at 3000 feet, in July ; 2 Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 and 

 10,000 feet, in April and May. The original type is also from Haleakala, Maui, at 

 4000 feet ; but the second specimen, from Mauna Kea, Hawaii, is S. meristis. 



(48) Scoparia peronetis, sp. nov. 



$. 16 mm. Head fuscous, crown suffused with whitish. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 base and extreme tips white. Thorax dark fuscous, somewhat whitish-mixed. 

 Abdomen light greyish-ochreous, segmental margins whitish. Forewings whitish, 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a slender irregular blackish longitudinal line from middle of 

 base to middle of first line, continued less distinctly along submedian fold to tornus ; 

 first line white, indistinct, angulated above middle, upper portion very oblique, 

 indented in middle, towards dorsum followed by a dot of dark fuscous suffusion ; 

 orbicular and claviform small, blackish, undefined, claviform placed in an indentation 

 of first line, orbicular rather obliquely beyond it ; discal 8-shaped, hardly indicated 

 except by a blackish median dash, and a mark on anterior side of upper half; second 

 and subterminal lines obsolete ; veins somewhat marked with black posteriorly, and 

 a terminal series of elongate blackish dots : cilia whitish, obscurely barred with fuscous, 

 with a dark fuscous antemedian line. Hindwings grey-whitish, terminally grey-suffused ; 

 cilia whitish. 



I specimen, Kona, Hawaii, at 3000 feet in October. 



