fi'07)i the Tlcncaiian Islands. 399 



reflections ; fringe as above : pectus and legs cream-coloured, 

 the latter banded with brown above ; venter pure white. Ex- 

 panse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



" In company with No. 128. I bred a specimen of each of 

 them from pupse found (not together) in rotten wood." One 

 specimen. 



Notwithstanding the similarity of pattern and habit between 

 this and the preceding species, D. indecora possesses the true 

 neuration of Dejjressaria^ and D. lactea that of the arbitrary 

 group Chezala. The following also agrees with the latter 

 group. 



36. Depi-essaria argentea^ sp. n. (No. 100). 



Silvery white : primaries irrorated with grey ; markings 

 almost exactly as in D. indecora ; an oblique basicostal black 

 dash ; base of dorsal margin grey; a black dot in the cell and 

 an angular >> -shaped group of spots below it ; a bilobed black 

 transverse spot at the end of the cell ; two arched discal bands 

 formed of more or less confluent grey dashes ; apical half of 

 costal margin and outer margin spotted with black : secon- 

 daries with grey spots on the fringe : female with the terminal 

 segments of the abdomen banded with grey. Primaries below 

 yellowish (like pale gold), the marginal black spots as above; 

 secondaries with slightly yellowish costal area, otherwise 

 white : body below white ; legs banded above with greyish. 

 Expanse of wings 7-11 lines. 



A pair of this pretty little species. Mr. Blackburn says 

 that it was taken on the " mountains near Honolulu." 



37. Parasia sedata (No. 86). 

 $ . Gelechia sedata, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 560. n. 88 (1880) 



The male of this species, which agrees better (both in 

 structure and pattern) with Parasia than with Gelechia. It 

 was taken " flying on the sea-shore at Kawaiahas, Hawaii." 



Hyposmochoma, gen. nov. 



HoUocerce affine genus. Alae posticae vena mediana triramosa, ramis 

 autem omnibus bene separatis, petiolo haud emissis ; fasciculo 

 setarum magno hasali ; ciliis marginis externi lougissimis ; palpis 

 perlongis, arcuatis, a latere emissis; capite lanuginoso ; antennis 

 longis, crassis ; pedibus longis, robustis, tibiis valide spinosis. 



The principal differences between this genus and Holcocera 

 seem to consist in the branching of the median vein of the 

 secondaries, the second and third branches being emitted sepa- 

 rately instead of from a footstalk ; and in the large fascicle of 



