274 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



whitish, curved, very oblique, sharply indented in middle, edged posteriorly with 

 dark fuscous suffusion mixed with black ; orbicular elongate or dash-like, black, 

 detached ; claviform dot-like, blackish, touching first line and sometimes merged in 

 dark suffusion ; discal X-shaped, blackish, separated from orbicular by a clear white 

 spot ; second and subterminal lines cloudy, white, hardly defined, confluent in middle ; 

 a terminal series of cloudy blackish dots : cilia white, with two interrupted fuscous 

 lines. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, termen fuscous-suffused ; cilia whitish, with a 

 fuscous basal line. (Plate VII. fig. 27.) 



13 specimens ; 8 Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 4000 feet ; 5 Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 

 4000 feet ; from April to J une. 



(56) Scoparia omichlopis, sp. nov. 



^%. 15 — 25 mm. Head and thorax whitish, suffusedly irrorated with pale 

 brownish-ochreous, shoulders usually dark fuscous. Palpi long (3^ — 4), dark fuscous, 

 base whitish, apex more or less mixed with whitish. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. 

 Forewings white, finely irrorated with brownish-ochreous ; a very short fine blackish 

 subcostal dash from base, sometimes obsolete ; first line whitish, almost obsolete, 

 curved, very oblique, indented in middle, followed by a dark fuscous mark towards 

 dorsum, and usually two or three dots of dark fuscous suffusion towards costa ; a dark 

 fuscous dot indicating orbicular, remote from first line ; claviform obsolete ; discal 

 indicated by a short dark fuscous dash and two dark fuscous dots above it ; second 

 and subterminal lines very faint or obsolete ; a terminal series of indistinct dark fuscous 

 dots : cilia whitish, with an indistinct brownish-ochreous antemedian line. Hindwings 

 whitish-fuscous; cilia whitish, with a faint fuscous subbasal line. (Plate VII. fig. 28.) 



33 specimens; 8 Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 feet; 16 Kaholuamano, Kauai, at 

 4000 feet ; 6 Olaa, Hawaii ; 3 Hilo, Hawaii, at 2000 feet ; in January, from April to 

 July, September and December. 



(57) Scopaj'ia venosa Butl. 



Scopm'ia venosa Butl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. 1881, p. 332. 

 Xeroscopa venosa Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 233. 



$%. 16 — 22 mm. Head and thorax white, sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, base and tips white. Abdomen light ochreous-grey, segmental margins 

 whitish. Forewings very narrow, fuscous, more or less mixed with blackish ; all 

 veins marked by more or less defined white streaks; normal lines and spots hardly 

 perceptible or wholly obsolete : cilia white with dark fuscous antemedian and fuscous 



