HYSSIA. 



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Sect, II. Aiiteniii£ of male with long bristles and cilia. 



A. Head ochreous com'psias. 



B. Head dark. 



a. Fore wing with pure white marks on orbicular and reni- 



form niphadopa. 



b. Fore wing without white marks on stigmata unthracias. 



1534. Hyssia compsias. 



Leucania compsias, Meyr. Fauna Hawaiiensis, i. p. 139 (1899). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish ochreous ; palpi and 

 antennae blackish ; legs tinged with black ; abdomen tinged with 

 fuscous towards extremity. Fore wing grey-white tinged with 

 ochreous, irrorated and in parts suffused with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line dark, waved, from costa to submedian fold, defined by grey on 

 outer side ; some dark brown on costal area before the antemedial 

 line, which is oblique, irregularly waved, defined by grey on inner 

 side ; claviform absent ; orbicular small, white defined by black, 

 oblique elliptical ; reuiform represented by a white bar expanding 

 above and below and defined by black on inner side and two white 



Fig. 60. — Hi/ssia com2}sias, S • \- 



points on its outer edge ; a broad diffused medial shade, oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell ; postniedial line minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa and obli(]ue below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined by 

 fuscous suffusion on inner side, waved, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and inwards in discal fold, excurved at middle ; some dark 

 striaj on termen ; cilia ochreous with dark tips. Hind wing grey, 

 tinged with fuscous on the veins and discal area ; the underside 

 pale grey, the costal area irrorated with dark brown. 



2 . Patagia and thorax fuscous brown iirorated with grey ; 

 abdomen grey-brown ; fore wing dark brown with cupreous reflec- 

 tions, the lines defined by pure white, reniform with elongate 

 pure white spot above median nervure from it to orbicular ; hind 

 wing more strongly suffused with fuscous brown. 



IJah. Hawaii, Kilauea (Perhlns), 1 c? type, Olaa, 1 $ . Exp. 

 36 millim. 



1535. Hyssia niphadopa. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 20.) 



Lewania 7iiphadopa, Meyr. Fauna Hawaiiensis, i. p. 140 (1899). 

 § . Head and thorax dark brown with a purplish tinge ; tarsi 



