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maries appearing tarnislied towards the apex and on the fringe. 

 Expanse of wings 6 lines. 



Two specimens, " occurring at Makawao, Maui ; about 

 2000 feet above sea, in a house." 



49. Laverna parda^ sp. n. (No. 125). 



Primaries above slaty grey, irrorated with black ; the base, 

 a streak along the dorsal margin, a streak across the cell, a 

 spot on the costa near apex, and a spot at external angle 

 densely sprinkled with white scales ; a black spot at the base, 

 two in the cell, a rather large one closing the cell, and two 

 below the cell ; fringe and the whole of the secondaries sooty 

 grey : thorax black, spotted with ochreous ; frons cream- 

 coloured ; abdomen grey, with pale margins to the segments ; 

 legs above black, banded with white, below white. Wings 

 below shining plumbaginous grey, with dull grey cilia : body 

 below silvery white. Expanse of wings 6 lines. 



Var. (No. 127). 



Smaller ; the primaries much more generally irrorated with 

 white, so that the black spots stand out more prominently ; 

 the secondaries plumbaginous instead of sooty grey, and with 

 brown cilia ; body paler ; the head greyish white or creamy 

 yellowish, with white frons and almost wholly white palpi ; 

 the black colouring of the upper surface of the legs variable 

 (in the paler specimen reduced to a series of spots). Expanse 

 of wings 51 lines. 



Three specimens, the typical one taken " on Haleakala, 

 about 4000 feet above sea ; apparently connected with dead 

 wood." The two others " at light, Makawao, Maui." 



One of the specimens taken at Makawao is exactly inter- 

 mediate, excepting in size, between the two other specimens 

 sent by Mr. Blackburn; and as the arrangement of the most 

 stable character (that is, of the black spots on the primaries) 

 is the same in all three, I cannot think that we have here 

 more than a variation to deal with. 



50. Chrysoclista tigrina^ sp. n. (No. 120). 



Primaries above golden orange ; basicostal area dusky ; 

 discoidal cell black, crossed near the middle by two oblique 

 lines of the ground-colour, and only separated by a thu'd 

 oblique line from a little curved black stria at the end of the 

 cell ; an oblique blackish costal streak above the end of the 

 cell, immediately followed by a similar white streak j an 

 almost fusiform apical costal black patch, partly crossed by 



