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variety. It is very local, occurring here and there in profusion iu 

 marshy spots high up the mountains." — T. B. 



SCOTOSIA KARA, 91. Sp. (No. 59). 



Primaries above dark fuliginous-brown, flecked with black ; limits of the central 

 belt indicated by two irregularly undidated transverse black lines ; reniform spot 

 distinct, black-edged ; a sinuous sub-marginal pale line limited internally by a dif- 

 fused blackish stripe, and bounding the external area ; a marginal series of black 

 spots, enclosing whitish dots ; fringe blackish ; secondaries sericeous greyish-brown, 

 traversed by a series of blackish dots beyond the cell : body coloured to correspond 

 with the wings : primaries below gi-eyish, flecked with blackish, costa sandy-yellowish 

 flecked with black ; discocellulars dusky ; a discal series of blackish spots, becoming 

 quite black towards the costa ; a marginal series of black spots ; secondaries whitish, 

 speckled with blackish ; a dusky triangular discocellular spot ; a bisinuated discal 

 series of black spots ; a marginal series of black spots ; fringe grey : body below 

 sordid white, legs marbled with black. Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 10 lines. 



Although the example is not in good condition, I have described 

 it, as Mr. Blackburn tells me that it was obtained at a place which he 

 may never visit again, and seems to be both rare and local. " It oc- 

 curred upw^ards of 4000 feet above sea level, on Haleakala (an extinct 

 volcano) ; island Maui." The male, which Mr. Blackburn retains, has 

 strongly pectinated antennae. This Scotosia is most nearly allied to 

 S. dubitata. 



PHTCID.^. 



PlODIA IliTERPTJNCTALIS, Huhiwr (No. 23). 



Mr. Blackburn remarks of this species, " Apparently' a Phycis ; 

 very likely not indigenous, I have not found it commonly." 



TINEID.E. 



SCAEDIA LIGNTVORA, 11. Sp. (No. 56). 



(? . Ground colour of primaries sericeous whitish, irrorated with blackish scales ; 

 costa crossed close to the base by a black spot ; an oblique brown bordered black 

 dash from the sub-costal nervure to the inner margin, followed by two or three black 

 dots ; remainder of the wing occupied by three alternate triangles margined and in- 

 tersected by a W'sliaped white line ; the first and third areas (bounded by the 

 white line) blackish, the second area enclosing two brown spots ; three elongated 

 impressed black spots bounding the outer edge of the white line near apex ; fringe 

 white ; secondaries silvery, slightly brownish towards apex ; fringe whity-brown : 

 thorax whity-brown, flecked with darker scales, head whitish ; abdomen grey, with 

 whitish edges to the segments : under-surface metallic-silver, without markings. 



Expanse of wings, lOj lines. 



$ . Larger than the male, the ground colour of primaries pinky, the dark areas 

 less distinct, washed with laky-brown, the first triangular area interrupted by a lon- 

 gitudinal black discoidal dash, which is broken near its inner extremity by a whitish 

 spot ; secondaries greyer, abdomen ochraceous both above and below, wings below of 

 a greyer silvery-colour. Expanse of wings, 1 inch. 



" Bred from larvte feeding on very rotten wood, in mountain 

 forests ; Oahu."— T. B. 



This species is very distinct from any Scardia hitherto recorded. 



British Museum : March, 1879. 



