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 A Note on "Tineola uterella" in Hawaii. 



BY OTTO 11. S\VK/,IOY. 



Mv. .Viiiiust Jju^'ck liiis called my altcutioii to this species 

 of moth amoiic; tlic s])(H'im('iis lalu'llcd OcrUi inncnJala in the 

 cabinet of the Ex])oi'im(nit Station, If. S. V\ A. In fact, 

 nearly all so-hibcllcd prox-cd to he Thieohi ntcrcUa. This spe- 

 cies has not h(>en previonsly recorded in the Hawaiian Islands. 

 Walsingham, in the Fauna Ilawaiiensis, records a sin<>,le sj^eci- 

 nien of (). maculata,- without loealit}', collected hy Blackl)urn 

 in the Hawaiian Islands. This no doubt was collected in 

 Honolulu. Walsingham remarks that 0. maculafn is ''ex- 

 tremely similar in appearance to Tineola uterella." This and 

 the fact that only the former had been recorded here, led to 

 my confusion of the two species, which I am now able to 

 se])arate readily, since having their distinctions pointed out 

 by Mr. Busck. They both occur in the West Indies and 

 Brazil, from where they were described. Their larvae are 

 said to have similar habits, in that they live in Hattened cases 

 and are found about the walls of houses. 



In Honolulu, T. ui-erella is much more common than 0. 

 iiiaculata, for I have collected but one specimen of the latter 

 in 11 years of collecting; whereas, the former I have collected 

 frequently from many localities in the Islands, and also reared 

 it from the larval cases so commonly seen about buildings. 



A Braconid, Protapantcles hawaiiensis, is often bred from 

 these cases. It will be necessary to make a correction in a 

 statement al)out this parasite on page 108 of Proceedings of 

 the Hawaiian Entomological Society, Vol. Ill, 1915. Tineola 

 ulevella should be substituted for Oecia maeulata as the host 

 of this Braconid. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. Ill, Xo. 3, September, 1916. 



