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in younger stages) ; head with a black spot enclosing each eye 

 ■cluster, a black spot in the upper outer part of each lobe, some- 

 times a small spot about middle of each lobe ; cervical shield has 

 two longitudinal black stripes wide apart, also a little blackened 

 •on lateral margins; tubercles minute; hairs pale; spiracles 

 light brown ; feet pale like the ventral side. 



Pupa — 8 mm,, pale yellowish brown ; wing-, leg- and anten- 

 na-cases extend to apex of 4th abdominal segment ; abdomen 

 terminates very bluntly, with two curved bristles near together 

 at apex, two situated somewhat dorsally and a little farther apart 

 and one at each extreme side directed laterally; two dorsal pits 

 at base of segment 9. 



Limnerium hlachhurni is quite common as a parasite on the 

 larvse of this moth. From a batch of larva? collected, usually 

 more parasites are reared than moths. 



Scoparia lycopodiae n. sp. [Fam. Pyraustidie]. 

 (Plate 3, fig. 2.) 



^ , 2 . 16-19 mm. Antennae light fuscous. Head and thorax fus- 

 cous mixed with whitish. Palpi light fuscous, whitish above and on 

 inner side. Abdomen grey, segmental margins whitish. Forewings 

 with fuscous and whitish scales nearly uniformly mixed, the fuscous 

 predominating in a subterminal streak; lines obsolete; orbicular and 

 discal dots not defined; cilia whitish with fuscous line at base. Hind- 

 wings light fuscous, termen darker; cilia light fuscous, darker at base. 



This species comes near to Meyrick's description of *S^. 

 epimystis, but differs chiefly in the lines being obsolete. 



Described from 4 specimens reared from pupse found within 

 the stems of Lycopodium cernuum, in the Koolau Mountains of 

 Oahu, above Wahiawa, at an elevation of about 1,800 feet, May 

 31st, 1909; and one specimen reared from pupa similarly sit- 

 uated, Palolo Valley near Kaau Crater, July 5th, 1909, 



In the former locality attention Avas attracted by the numer- 

 ous dead tips of the plant, which on examination disclosed the 

 fact that they had been bored for several inches by some insect. 

 The larva was present in a few instances as well as the pup£e 

 mentioned above. The larva apparently enters when quite small 

 and bores downward in the middle of the stem. Having become 

 full-grown, it gnaws a round hole nearly through to the exterior, 

 then pupates just below, where it can readily emerge through 

 the hole at the final transformation. 



