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of whom returned it as unknown. I must therefore regard it as an endemic form, the 

 discovery of which puts Plusia on exactly the same level as Vanessa, each being now 

 represented by one endemic and two or three apodemic species. 



Plusia chalcitcs Esp. Meyr. F. H. i. p. 159. 

 One specimen, N.W. Koolau range, Oahu. 



HYDRIOMENIDAE. 



EUCVMATOGE Hub. 



[f) Eucyniatogc craterias Meyr. F". H. i. p. 163. 



One specimen possibly of this species, but too poor to identify with certainty, 

 Wahiawe, Oahu, in April. 



Eucy»iatoge inonticolans. Butl. Meyr. F. H. i. p. 104. 

 Eleven specimens, N.W. Koolau range, Oahu. 



SELIDOSEMIDAE. 



SisvROi'HVTA Meyr. 

 Sisyrophvta gouiphias Meyr. !■". H. 1. p. 169. 

 Six specimens, N.W. and S.E. Koolau range, Oahu, in July. 



Nesochlide Perk. 



Face with tuft of scales. Tongue developed. Antennae in I bipectinated, simple 

 towards base and on apical third. Palpi rough-scaled. Thorax hairy beneath. 

 Abdomen densely clothed with shaggy hair beneath, in ^ with large dense expansible 

 genital tuft. Middle femora with dense brush of rough hairs beneath, posterior femora 

 hairy beneath, posterior tibiae in ,? dilated, hairy outwardly, containing hairpencil in 

 groove, posterior tarsi in Z reduced. P'orewings in $ without fovea, beneath with a 

 large oval patch of fine dense modified scales occupying almost whole of cell, largely 

 covered by a fringe of enlarged and dilated scales from its lower margin, above this a 

 dense reflexed fringe of rough hairscales from anterior half of costa; 10 and i i separate. 

 Hind wings normal. 



This is a development of Scotorythra, as to which opinions may differ whether it is 

 entitled to more than subgeneric rank ; perhaps on the whole clearness of conception is 

 assisted by regarding it as a genus. 



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