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Full-grown caterpillar.— (Plate IV, figs. 1-P>). Length -JS-liO 

 niiii.; testaeeous-green, with a rosy tinge; hairs situated in hlaek 

 (lots on the hroad flat tul)ercles; head testaceous, two roundish 

 black spots in front, one in middle of each lohe of face, two small 

 l)lackish markings on the sutures neni- middle and ;i little higher 

 up, postero-lateral margins of liea<l slightly hro\\iie(l; a hlaek 

 spot including the ocelli, except the lower outer one; mandihles 

 hroAvn, black at apex. Cervical shi( Id with two small ])laek dots 

 in middle near anterior margin; in each lateral loliea large black 

 spot and a tiny one Ix'hind it, lateral margin l)niwn. The tuber- 

 cles below the spiracles of segment 2, and all tubercles of the 

 other segments are more or less blackish-brown margined, those 

 of the thrt-e posterior segments most ])ronounced; tubercles i and 

 ii of segments often partially joined; in younger caterpillars 

 tulK'rcles of segments 3, 4, 11, 12 and lo ai'c mostly l)lack; spira- 

 cles of segments 2 and 12 are larger than the others. 



Pupa. — Length 18-15 mm.; veiw dark In-own; liairs as usual 

 with Omiodcs pupae; cremaster blunt-pointed, with a cluster of 

 hooked spines at apex; antenna- and leg-cases ext( mling to near 

 the posterior margin of tlie (ith abdominal segment, free Inyond 

 the 4th segment. 



Omiodcs anastrepta Meyr. (Plate 11, lig i ) 



" 5 28-29 mm. Head thorax, and abdomen fuscous. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, lower half white. Fore wings moderate, terraen faintly sinuate 

 beneath apex ; rather dark fuscous, more or less whitish-sprinkled ; first 

 line whitish, angulated above middle, nearly, or quite obsolete above 

 angulation, lower portion margined posteriorly by a thick blackish- 

 fuscous streak which Is nearly rectangularly bent and continued beneath 

 median vein to discal mark, this angle sometimes filled with dark suf- 

 fusion ; a small black orbicular dot; a transverse blackish discal mark ; 

 second line whitish, slighly sinuate beneath costa, edged posteriorly by a 

 suffused dark fuscous band, and sometimes anteriorly by a series of dark 

 fuscous docs ; a terminal series of blackish dots. Hind wings rather dark 

 grey a paler slightly sinuate postmedian line, edged anteriorly with dark 

 grey dots, and posteriorly by a band of dark grey suffusion ; a terminal 

 series of blackish dots." [Meyrick, Fauna Hawaiiensis, I, Pt. II, p. 204, 

 IS99]. 



The male is similar to al)0ve descri[)tion of female. 



This isa rather rare species. It has been collected in Kona, and 



