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ish line; prologs with dark fuscous spot on outer side; head 

 very pale brownish with minute fuscous reticulation, vertical 

 fuscous spot in middle of paraclypeus, a wide fuscous border 

 to inner edge of each cranial lobe ; eyes black, a fuscous line 

 extends upwards, and another obliquely backward from them ; 

 cervical shield much spotted wuth dark fuscous, traversed by a 

 median white line and a sub-dorsal white line on each side; 

 spiracles oval, black ; tubercles minute, black ; a roundish black 

 spot on segments 3 and 4 a little above line of spiracles. 



The caterpillars become full-grown in about a month from 

 the hatching of the eggs. Like unlpHncla. they uiay often be 

 found on their food])lant in the daytime ; in cane, hiding be- 

 liiiid the leaf-sheaths. 



Pu])ation takes place in an earthen cell a little below the 

 surface of the ground, or beneath stones or rid)bish. The ))upa 

 is about 11) mm", long by 5 mm. thick; medium bruwn, darker 

 on the back, eyes nearly black; a row of about a dozen pits on 

 dorsal side at base of abdominal seguients 5, (i and 7 ; ai)ex of 

 abdouien ])ointing a little venti-ally, with two slightly diverg- 

 ing, pale spines, dark at base, curved ventrally and hooked at 

 tip, a curved hooked bristle a little dorsal ly, and another a little 

 laterally from each of these terminul si)ines. The moth emerges 

 from the pu])a in about t'wo weeks. 



Cirpliis pyrrhias (Meyrick). 



Lciiraiiia iij/rrli ias, ]\Ieyrick, Fauna llawaiieusis, 1, I^t. ITl, 

 ]). 141, lUOl. 



Cirpliis pijnliias, llam})son, Cat. Le]). Phal. British Mus., 

 V, p. 494, PL XCI, fig. 28, 1905. 



"Male and female, 39-46 mm. Head and thorax brown-reddish 

 irrorated with whitish-ochreous. Abdomen densely hairy towards 

 base, in male with dense expansible brownish-ochreous tufts at base 

 beneath, and also in lateral basal cavities. Forewings pale brown- 

 ish-ochreous, densely suffusedly strigulated throughout with brown- 

 reddish; veins posteriorly ochreous-whitish, sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous; costal edge sometimes white; first and second lines formed 

 by series of indistinct dark fuscous dots, second rather strongly 

 curved; lower end of reniform forming a small white dot, followed 

 by a dark fuscous suffusion. Hindwings light rosy-ochreous." 

 [Meyrick, Fauna Hawaiiensis, I. Pt. Ill, p. 141, 1901]. 



