from the Hawaiian Islands. 329 



cream-coloured, spotted with black beyond the middle ; dis- 

 coidal spots large and black ; an indication of the discal line 

 of the upper surface ; outer border and fringe nearly as above, 

 but greyer and more sericeous : secondaries greyish white, 

 with two black spots in the cell and one at tlie inferior ex- 

 tremity ; a discal series of black dots ; a submarginal dentate- 

 sinuate grey line ; a marginal series of black dots ; a white 

 apical spot ; fringe spotted with grey : body below white ; 

 venter wuth lateral series of black dots. Expanse of wings 

 8 lines. 



One specimen, " flying among low plants at an elevation of 

 about 4000 feet on Haleakala." 



16. Mecyna exigua (No. 133). 

 3Iecyna exigua, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. xy. p. 271 (1879). 



One specimen, without head ; it is probably the female of 

 my species ; and differs in the diffusion of the white edges of 

 the black lines across tlie primaries ; so that these wings might 

 be described as greyish white, dusky at tlie base and crossed 

 in the middle by a broad irregular blackish belt ; a subapical 

 costal spot and the outer border blackish ; a marginal series 

 of black dots, limited internally by a zigzag submarginal white 

 line ; fringe grey, traversed* by a brown line and tipped with 

 brown. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 



No exact locality is given. " April-May." 



17. Mecyna virescens, sp. n. (No. 139). 



Allied to M. polygonalis of Europe and M. deprivalis of 

 New Zealand ; same size and pattern above : primaries above 

 olive-green ; costal margin dark orange ; an indistinct angu- 

 lated oblique darker line just before the basal third ; orbicular 

 and reniform spots small and dusky ; a large black spot just 

 below the inferior angle of the cell, and two or three black 

 dots in a straight line between it and the inner margin ; an 

 arched series of five black dots beyond the cell ; a marginal 

 series of black points ; fringe of inner margin sienna-red ; 

 fringe of outer margin grey in the centre, sienna-red at base 

 and tips : secondaries dull cupreous brown, with a black border 

 as in the allied species, fringe golden cupreous, traversed by a 

 central grey line: thorax olive-green, abdomen pale sandy 

 brown. Primaries below with the costal border and apex 

 reddish orange ; subapical area broadly dull rose-colour ; dis- 

 coidal area grey ; disk towards external angle flesh-coloured ; 

 internal border white ; a whitish-buff basal spot and an indis- 

 tinct rosy subcostal streak in the cell, interrupted by blackish 

 orbicular and reniform spots : secondaries pale sandy yellow, 



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