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FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



( I ) Nesochlide epixantha Perk. .. 



Nesochlide epixantha Perk., Ent. Mo. Mag. xx.wii. (1901), 216. 



j*. 40 — 49 mm. Head and thorax orantje-ochreous or ferruginous-orange. An- 

 tennae ochreous-whitish, pectinations 6, lined with black towards base. Abdomen i^, 

 whitish-ochreous, ventral and genital hairs more ochreous. Anterior and middle legs 

 fulvous clouded with dark grey, brush of middle femora light orange-ochreous, posterior 

 legs ochreous-whitish, tibiae faintly spotted with grey, dilated, enclosing fuscous 

 hairpencil in groove, posterior tarsi |-. Forewings elongate-triangular, termen gently 

 waved, bowed, rather oblique ; deep ferruginous-orange, strigulated with dark fuscous ; 

 first, second, and subterminal lines thick, dark fuscous, waved-dentate, .sometimes little 

 marked, first obtusely angulated in middle, indented beneath costa, second almost 

 straight, indented near dorsum, subterminal usually broken into .spots, often obsolete ; 

 median line usually obsolete, but sometimes thick, dark fuscous, angulated above middle ; 

 discal spot narrow-oval, transverse, dark fuscous, often obsolete ; a terminal series of 

 dark fuscous dots. Hindwings with termen waved, rounded; whitish, ochreous-tinged 

 posteriorly ; cilia ochreous. 



%. 50 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. F"orewings pale ochreous-yellowish, 

 somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous ; first, second, and subterminal lines strongly 

 marked, as in Z but more acutely dentate, first and second connected in disc by some 

 bars of dark fuscous suffusion ; discal spot strongly marked ; terminal dots as in ?. 

 Hindwings ochreous-whitish; a waved grey postmedian line; some subterminal spots 

 of cloudy grey suffusion ; a terminal series of dark fu.scous dots ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Forty specimens (thirty-nine ,?, one %), N.W. Koolau range, Oahu, in July. A 

 very distinct and handsome species, varying a good deal in intensity of marking ; probably 

 the % will be found to vary quite as much as the ?. 



ScOTORVTHR.A Butl. 



Scotoi'ytlira arhoricolans Butl. Meyr. F. H. i. p. 173. 



Three .specimens, N.W. Koolau range, Oahu, in April. The pale band beyond 

 second line- is sometimes yellowish-tinged ; the discal spot is .sometimes obscure. 



Scotoiythra carvopis Meyr. F'. H. i. p. 173 



The following notes are enlargements of the original description : 

 ? 22 — 31 mm., ij? 26 — 32 mm. Antennal pectinations of t 7 — f^. P'orewings with 

 first and second lines in ^ usually dotted as in %, only e.xceptionally marked with dark 

 fuscous ; discal spot usually very indistinct or obsolete ; median line not usually marked 

 with dark fuscous, its dorsal approximation to second line somewhat variable, not always 

 considerable ; seldom in ^ a distinct narrow pale band beyond second line formed by 



