284 nocxuid.t:. 



with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, greyish at base, the anal 

 tuft with a rufous tinge. Fore wing fuscous brown with a slight 

 purplish gloss ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line indistinct, oblifjuc, retracted to inner 

 margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular a small round pure white spot ; 

 reniform a small round M'hite spot tinged with ochreous, defined 

 above, on inner side and below by white marks and forming an 

 E -shaped mark ; traces of a diffused medial shade ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, dark, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; the underside pale grey-brown, the costal area 

 irrorated with grev. 



Hab. Hawaii, Olaa, 2000', 1 2 type. E.rp. 38 millim. 



153G. Hyssia anthracias. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 27.) 



Leucania anthraeias, Mejr. Fuuna Iluwaiiensis, i. p. 139 (1899). 



c? . Head and thorax dark brown with a purplish tinge, some 

 of the scales tipped with white ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown, the dorsal crest dark with grey tip, the anal tuft 

 rufous. Fore wing black-brown with a purplish gloss and slightly 

 irrorated with white ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique, waved ; 

 claviform minute, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform very 

 small, with greyish annuli defined by black, the former round ; 

 traces of a medial shade ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate and 

 produced to slight white points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of small 

 dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, with a small ochreous mark beyond them in submedian 

 fold. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with whitish. 



Hab. Hawaii, Haleokala, 9000', 1 6 type. Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. III. (H>/ssia). Antennae of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the claviform large, filled in with black- 



brown cavernosa. 



B. Fore wing with the claviform small or obsolete. 

 a. Fore wing with the ground-colour groy-brown. 



a^. Fore wing tinged with violaceous. 



a-. Fore wing without medial line violascens. 



l)^. Fore wing with medial line, the area beyond it 

 rather darker. 

 «'. Forewing with the basal half dark purplish grey, modesta. 

 b^. Fore wing with the basal half pale grey. 



a*. Fore wing with the medial line not angled 



inwards in submedian fold distirka. 



6*. Fore wing with the medial line angled in- 

 wards in submedian fold dilecta. 



