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Mr. Kirkalcly exhibited a box containing series of the follow- 

 ing Scntellerine bugs showing great color-variation : 



1. — Chrysocoris grandis from Macao. 



2. — Tectocoris diophthalmus from Anstralia, Amboina, Fiji, 

 and New Caledonia. 



3, — Laniptoinicra leucocyanea from Biara. 



4. — Poecilocoris druraei from Macao. 



The first and fourth series were collected by Mr. Kershaw. 



Some New Species of Hawaiian Lepidoptera. 



BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



Genophaiifis leahi n. sp. [Fam. Phycitid?p]. 

 (Plate 3, fig. 1.) 



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9, 18-20 mm. Antennae, palpi, head, legs and thorax nearly 

 uniform whitish grey. Abdomen shining whitish ochreous. Forewings 

 whitish grey, sprinkled with fuscous, the fuscous scales tending to 

 form lines on the veins, sometimes quite a wide suffused fuscous 

 streak medianly the whole length of wing, usually a narrow whitish 

 ochreous streak along the fold; lines obsolete; usually a black dot 

 in the cell, another at end of cell; a terminal series of black dots; 

 cilia grey with two whitish lines. Hindwings grey, terminally fuscous; 

 cilia whitish grey, light fuscous at base. 



The larv?e of this moth feed abundantly on the leaves of 

 Euphorbia cordata. I have collected them and reared quite a 

 number of the moths from this plant on the slopes of Diamond 

 Head Crater, Oahu, on several occasions during the past three 

 years. I have named the species for the Hawaiian name of this 

 crater — ''Leahi." I have also collected the larvse from the same 

 plant at Waialua and Waimea, Oahu, on the beach; and on 

 Euphorbia pilidifera (a garden weed) in Kaimuki, Oahu. 



The larvae hide in a web spun between adjacent leaves and 

 along the stem. They eat one surface and mesophyll of the leaf, 

 leaving the other epidermis ; hence, their presence on the plant 

 is indicated by the w^ebbed dead leaves. The pupa is formed in 

 a slight cocoon amongst these or amongst leaves, etc., on the 

 ground. 



Full-gro-uai larva — 15 mm., light yellowish, with a wide 

 blackish stripe on each side just above the line of spiracles, three 

 narrower lines on dorsum between these two (these are lacking 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. II, No. 3, May, 1910. 



