Lepidoptera from the Hmvaiian Islands. 41 



" This curious insect was bred from a small batch of 

 green larvae feeding between spun together leaves of a 

 plant growing high up the mountains near Honolulu. I 

 found Dcilephila calida feeding on the same plant. Pupa 

 in a rather firm cocoon of leaves and silk. I note a 

 peculiar character in this . . . species in the strong and 

 abrupt contraction of one of the middle segments of the 

 hind body : this is even more conspicuous when the 

 insect is alive than when it is dead and dry. The female 

 has simple slender antennas." — T. B. 



SCOPAEIID^. 



12. Scoparia coarctata, Zeller, var? montana (No. 160). 



This is certainly conspecific with the example pre- 

 viously received (No. 102) ; it differs from European 

 examples in the less evidently angulated upper extremity 

 of the externo-discal white line of the primaries, and in 

 the blackish instead of white internally conical outer 

 border of these wings ; this blackish border, which 

 is doubtless an exaggeration of the submarginal series 

 of black spots, is interrupted close to the margin by a 

 delicate undulated white line representing the straight 

 white line of tyj^ical S. coarctata ; the costal margin of 

 the primaries is also a little shorter, and the outer 

 margin straighter. Expanse of wings, 15 mm. 



" Occurs on the mountains of Honolulu, but rarely." 

 —T.B. 



The specimen of this species previously received was 

 a little rubbed, and therefore I unhesitatingly identified 

 it as S. coarctata, to which it bears a close resemblance ; 

 the example now forwarded, however, shows distinct 

 colour-characters on the external area of the primaries 

 (which in the first specimen were wholly obliterated) ; it 

 moreover agrees with the first specimen received in its 

 slightly inferior size and more truncated primaries ; I 

 therefore now feel some hesitation in regarding it even 

 as a variety of Zeller's species. 



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