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FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



rather curved, Indented in middle, edged posteriorly with dark fuscous suffusion ; 

 orbicular small, irregular, detached, laterally edged with dark fuscous ; claviform 

 dark fuscous, more or less merged in dark suffusion of first line ; discal 8-shaped, 

 partially outlined with blackish ; second line white, distinct ; subterminal cloudy, white, 

 confluent with second in middle ; a terminal series of cloudy blackish dots : cilia 

 whitish, with dark fuscous antemedian and fuscous subapical line. Hindwings whitish- 

 fuscous, termen suffused with fuscous ; cilia as in forewings. 



2 specimens, Haleakala, Maui, at 5000 feet, in May. The original type may 

 probably be from the same locality. 



(52) Scoparia meristis, sp. nov. 



Scoparia frigida Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 231, non Butl. 



$%. 14 — 20 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, more or less mixed with white. 

 Palpi dark fuscous, base and tips white. Abdomen light greyish-ochreous. Fore- 

 wings suffusedly irrorated with white and sometimes sprinkled with black ; sometimes 

 a blackish median longitudinal streak in basal area ; veins posteriorly sometimes 

 streaked with blackish ; first line whitish, little curved, very oblique, posteriorly 

 narrowly edged with blackish-fuscous suffusion ; orbicular small, roundish, more or 

 less edged with blackish-fuscous, separate ; claviform obsolete ; discal X-shaped, 

 blackish, often imperfectly defined ; second and subterminal lines whitish, ill-defined, 

 confluent in middle ; a terminal series of suffused dark fuscous elongate dots : cilia 

 whitish, with dark fuscous subbasal and fuscous subapical line. Hindwings pale 

 fuscous, darker terminally ; cilia whitish, with fuscous subbasal line. 



31 specimens; 24 Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 — 6000 feet ; 7 Molokai, at 3000 — 4000 

 feet; from June to September. Of the two examples referred by Butler to h.\s frigida, 

 one (from Mauna Kea, Hawaii, at 7000 ft.) is this species, but the type (as identified 

 above) is the other ; the description also clearly indicates the angulated first line 

 characteristic of the Maui species, but in 1888 I had not recognised their dis- 

 tinctness. 



(53) Scoparia /la/iimea, sp. nov. 



? ?• 14 — 20 mm. Head and thorax white, more or less mixed with fuscous 

 and blackish. Palpi dark fuscous, base and tips white. Abdomen greyish-ochreous, 

 segmental margins whitish-suffused. Forewings white, more or less irrorated with 

 fuscous or dark fuscous ; a dark fuscous suffusion at base of costa, sometimes extended 

 to reach a blackish median dash ; first line white, somewhat curved, very oblique. 



