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The fiill-gTcnvn larva is pale yellowish ; head pale yellowish 

 brown, eyes black ; cervical shield ]-)ale yello^^' ; tubercles brown- 

 ish, "ii- ' a little farther apart dorsally than "'i", "iii" above spir- 

 acle, "iv-j-v" below spiracle; setsp ])ale brown; spiracles coneol- 

 oroiis. 



Pupa? were found in the rachis, also in a pendant portion of 

 the silken tunnel which was on surface of frond. The pupa is 

 8 mm. ; medium brown ; antenna-, wing'- and leg-cases extend 

 to about middle of (ith abdominal segment, attached throughout; 

 spiracles a little elevated by tlie segments being slightly bulging 

 conically at the sides ; a cluster of hooked bristles at cremaster 

 fastened into silk of cocoon. 



Of the pupa? collected, specimens of Pimpla liawaiiensis 

 emerged from two. 



Gracilaria hauicola n. sp. [Fam. Tineid?e]. 

 (Plate 3. fig. 5.) 



^ , 9 . 7-8 mm. Antennae whitish ringed with brown, basal seg- 

 ment whitish; a little longer than forewings. Palpi whitish ochreous, 

 apex of median segment and apical half of terminal segment brown. 

 Head sordid white above, whitish on face. Thorax and abdomen pale 

 brown above, whitish below. Forewings brown, a lemon-yellow streak 

 on costa to 2-5ths then obliquely, at 3-.5ths a short outwardly oblique 

 white bar, almost meeting an inwardly oblique white bar from dorsum 

 of wing, beyond these the apical portion of wing is mostly lemon yel- 

 low with two or three brown dots or bars on costa; at 2-5ths of dorsum 

 an oblique white bar extends to the yellow streak from costa, at l-4th 

 another oblique white bar almost reaches the yellow streak; cilia pale 

 brown. Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous. Legs brownish, tarsi ringed 

 with white. 



This moth T have named from the "ban" tree (Pavitlum tiU- 

 aceiini) whose leaves its larv:p mine (]uite extensively. Some- 

 times one finds practically all of the leaves mined and often a 

 dozen or more per leaf. It probably occurs on all the islands 

 where the "ban" tree occurs. I have observed it at Koloa, 

 Kauai ; Wailuku, ^Isliu ; Waikiki and Tantalus, Oahu. My 

 specimens were reared from cocoons collected this summer on 

 Tantalus. The white rounded-oval cocoons were found quite 

 abundant on the surface of leaves, and also on fence-posts sit- 

 uated beneath "hau" trees. 



