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apex : cilia white, willi more or less expressed dark fuscous median 

 shade, towards tonius tinged with pale greyish-ochreous. Hind- 

 wings gre_y ; cilia light ochrcous-grey. 



Oahu, Koolau Mts. {PerJdns) ; six specimens. 



Hyposmocoma pharsotoma, n. sp. 



(S . 9 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Thorax whitish-ochreous 

 sprinkled with fuscous, anteriorly suffused with dark fuscous. 

 Ahdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, 

 apex obtuse-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; whitish- 

 ochreous, thinly sprinkled with fuscous and dark fuscous ; mark- 

 ings dark fuscous tinged with ferruginous ; a transverse streak at 

 ■i sluirply angulated on fold, connected whh base by subcostal, 

 submedian, and dorsal streaks ; elongate blotches on costa at ^ 

 and I ; stigmata represented by rather elongate spots, discai 

 approximated, plical obliquely before first discai ; an irregular 

 suffused streak along dorsum throughout, expanded into a blotch 

 on tornus ; an undefined apical blotch: cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 ])alc greyish. 



Oahu, Koolau Mts. (Perkins) ; one specimen. 



Hyposmocoma empedota, n. sp. 



(S 2 • 12-14: mm. Head and thorax white, often variably 

 sprinkled with dark grey, shoulders blackish. Palpi white, suf- 

 ftisedly irrorated with black except a])ex of joints, terminal joint 

 almost as long as second. Abdomen grey. Forewings elon- 

 gate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, 

 termen very obliquely rounded ; ochreous-white, often more or 

 less spiiukled with dark grey and blackish ; markings dark fuscous 

 mixed Avith black; a basal patch occupying | of wing, outer edge 

 nearly straight, rather oblique ; stigmata represented by moderately 

 large spots, discai approximated, plical obliquely before first discai, 

 an additional spot niidway between first dibcal and basal patch, 

 and two sufliused blotches on costa at 3 and |, but all these mark- 

 ings are more or less confluent and confused, often united into a 

 largo irregular-oblong j)atch extending along costa from before i to 

 beyond |- and reaching | across wing, with centie usually but not 

 always more or less whitish, and at lower posterior angle con- 

 nected with a small spot on tornus ; an irregular apical spot or 

 thick subterminal line near termen usually more or less developed : 

 cilia ])ale grey, sometimes suffused with white or sprinkled with 

 blackish. Hindwings grey, paler toAvards base ; in o with grey 

 subcostal hairpcncil fiom base, becoming blackish towards apex ; 

 cilia light grey. Forewings in J beneath with fringe of long 

 scales from 12. 



Oahu, Koolau Mts. (Perhins) ; fourteen specimens. Remark- 

 ably variable in marking, but tlie constant basal patch is a good 

 dibtiiiguishing character. 



