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a r pills (i.m]>]i/r((sis ( IMovrick). 



Leufdiitfi iiiiihJycasis, ^I('\i-ick, Fauna llawaiieiisis, T, T^t. 

 TTT, p. 141, 11)01. 



Cirphis (inil)li/c({sis. I laiii])S(>ii, Cat. Lcj). Plial. British Mns., 

 \\ ]). 4i)r., PI. XCI, fio-. ;5(), liMl.-). 



"Male and female; 38-41 mm. Head and thorax whitlsh-oohre- 

 ous, somewhat brownish-tinged, thorax posteriorly with a few black- 

 ish specks. Abdomen in male with very long dense expansible i)ale 

 ochreous lateral tuft attached to a broad spoon-shaped chitinous pro- 

 cess rising from basal cavities, and dense yellowish expansible tufts 

 in middle of base beneath. Forewings pale brownish-ochreous, 

 indistinctly strigulated with fuscous or grey; dark fuscous dots near 

 base in middle and on costa, indicating subbasal line; first and sec- 

 ond lines indicated by series of dark fuscous dots, second partially 

 double, moderately curved; lower edge of reniform forming a white 

 dot, edged with dark fuscous and followed by a small dark fuscous 

 suffusion; in female orbicular and reniform obscurely defined, pale 

 yellowish-ochreous; a' wedge-snaped faint darker suffusion on ter- 

 men beneath apex, not reaching second line. Hlndwings light grey- 

 ish-ochreous, irregularly suffused with fuscous, becoming darker 

 fuscous posteriorly." [Meyrick, Fauna Hawaiiensis I. Pt. Ill, p. 

 141, 1901], 



I have iisTially found the caterpillars of this moth feeding on 

 various urasscs of the lower lands; hnt 1 have also fonnd a few 

 of them alonii' with ('. uniinincia and other caterpillars in the 

 hiojier cane lields of the suiiar ])lantations of the lianiakna 

 and Ililo districts of Hawaii. 1 have never fonnd them nnm- 

 ci'ous enou<2,h of themselves to be injnrions. 



It is a native species and the moth closely resembles niil- 

 jiiuicUi. Tt differs however in bcino- a little larger and the 

 body more phini]); has a faint re(blish tini>e, 'and the forewings 

 lack the fnscons line which unipuncta has, extending oblitpielj 

 inward at apex. The caterpillar, also, is a little larger than 

 that of tinipiincta. 



The fnll-grown caterpillar is about 38 mm. Tt is nsnally 

 cream colored with pale brownish mottlings; a more or less 

 distinct fnscons mid-dorsal stripe, pah'-centered ; a wide daj'k 

 fnscons snb-doi'sal stripe, concave on npper o([<^v in each seg- 

 ment, connected by transverse bar on segment 12 ; a wide sn]n*a- 

 spiracnbii- stri])e of fnscons mottlings, below this a jmle vellow- 



