244 Mr. E. Meyrick on the 
contained no specimens of it; I found it common in 
dry grassy places near Honolulu in August, but the 
specimens were allin rather poor condition. It is easily 
recognised by the different shape and pale colouring of 
the fore wings, the dots in hind-marginal cilia, longer 
palpi, and peculiar neuration of hind wings. In the 
latter veins 4 and 5 are strictly separate, but very closely 
approximated at origin; they are therefore in some 
sense intermediate between Hednota, in which they 
should be from a point or stalked, and Diptychophora, in 
which they are distinctly remote and more or less 
parallel. ‘The specific relationship with the two pre- 
ceding species, which are undoubtedly referable to 
Hednota, is so strong that I have no doubt as to where 
to draw the line; but the species probably points directly 
to the common ancestral origin of the two genera. 
PHYCITIDA. 
1. Hind wings with vein 8 free .. Ble a2 .. 20. GENOPHANTIS. 
a ¥ anastomosing with 7 Ps 7 
2. Antenne in male with notch above basal joint .. 19. Homaosoms. 
re ss without we 3 .. 18, EpHestta, 
18. Epnestia, Gn. 
51. Iphestia interpunctella, Hb. 
Plodia interpunctalis, Butl., Ent. Mo. Mag., xv., 278. 
Two specimens. Artificially introduced; the favourite 
food of the larva is Indian corn (maize), with which it 
is probably imported. 
52. Ephestia desuetella, Walk. 
Three specimens. Introduced with grocery, and now 
cosmopolitan. 
53. Ephestia elutella, Hb. 
One specimen. Imported in the same way as the 
preceding species, but usually less common. 
19. Homaosoma, Curt. 
54. Homcosoma humeralis, Butl. 
Ephestia humeralis, Butl., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1881, 
332; I. albosparsa, ibid., 338. 
3d 3, 15—20 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-grey, sprinkled 
