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mata (Biitl.) — Feeds on a marine plant on sand-hills on Maui, 

 hiding nnder the sand by day (Blackburn). A. crinigera (Butl.) 

 — Garden crops (especially legumes), grasses, sugar cane, also 

 weeds. A. cinctipennis (Butl.) — Grasses and other plants. I once 

 found a brood of young caterpillars feeding on a kukui leaf, 

 and fed them to maturity on these leaves, but I think that this 

 was very unusual for the species. Tleliofliis armigera Hub. — 

 The cotton boll-worm, does not seem to be very injurious to cot- 

 ton here. It is mostly on the buds and blossoms of Hibiscus, 

 Malva and Sida. I have also found them abundant on flowers 

 of a garden marigold. Spodoptera inauritia Boisd. — The grass 

 army worm, feeds on various kinds of grasses and on sugar 

 cane. 8. exigua (Hub.) — Feeds on Euxolus, Ricinus, Nicotiana, 

 beans, peas, etc. The young larvre are somewhat gregarious, 

 feeding together beneath a common web; but later on separate 

 and produce no web for protection. Caradrina reclusa (Walk.) — 

 Feeds on Portulaca, Commelina, and probably grasses and other 

 herbaceous plants. A somewhat recent introduction; but ap- 

 parently not going to become a pest. AVhere I have found them 

 in the mountains, they are amongst the decaying vegetation 

 on the ground. 



Plusiadae. 



Simplicia rohustalis Guen. and Adrapsa manifestalis (Walk.) 

 — On grass and weeds. Hypenodes altivolans (Butl.) and Ne- 

 samiptis ohsoleta (Butl). — On grasses, particularly Hilo 

 grass (Paspalum conjugatum) . Cosmophila nodivolans (Butl.) 

 — Hibiscus and Sida. C. sabulifera (Guen.) — Abundant on 

 the "Hau" tree (Paritium tiliaceum), also on Hibiscus. 

 Hypocala andremona Cram., and H. velans Walk. — Both on the 

 native ebony (Maba sandwicensis and M. hillebrandii) . Plusia 

 chalcites. — A general feeder on all kinds of garden and orna- 

 mental plants and shrubs, also weeds, and many native species 

 of plants and shrub in the mountains. 



HVDETOIMENTDAE. 



Of this family, I know none of the caterpillars or their 

 habits. 



