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Gat-t.ekiadae. 



Meliphora grlseUa (Fab.) — Feeds in combs of bee-bives, but 

 I havo'uot observed it myself. 



CllAMBIDAE. 



I biive not seen tlie eaterpiUars of any of this family; l)nt I 

 am nuder tbe im})ression that Dr. Perkins reports the i>enus 

 Talis as feeding in grass. 



Pyeaitstidae. 



Margaronia exaida (Meyr.) — Dr. Perkins informs me that the 

 caterpillars feed on some euphorbiaceous plant; but I have not 

 yet seen them. Omiodes. — The larvffi of this genns are leaf- 

 rollers, feeding on leaves of grasses and other monocotyle- 

 donous plants ; rolling the leaves to form a tnbe in which to hide, 

 or folding over the edge of leaves, or feeding between spnn- 

 together leaves. 0. hlackhurni (Bntl.) — Feeds chiefly on cocoa- 

 nut leaves ;bnt also to some extent on other j^alms and on bananas. 

 O. iiu'i/riH'i Sw., (). niiisirohi S\v., and 0. maid Sw. — Feed only 

 on bananas. 0. asapJiomhra Meyr,--On JoiiiviUca adscendens. 

 0. iridias Meyr. — On Astelia veratroides. 0. miastrepta Meyr. 

 On Carex oahuensis. 0. anfidoxa ]\Teyr. — On Rhynrof^pora 

 tliyrsoides. 0. accepta (Bntl.), coidinaalalis (Wall.), donara- 

 talis (Walk.) and localis (Bntl.) — On grasses; accepta on sugar 

 cane also. 0. moyin gramma Meyr. — On DiancUa odorata, a lilia- 

 ceous plant. 0. inonogona Meyr. — On the ^Sviliwili" tr(H^ and 

 various bean vines. Tliis is the only one feeding on a dicotyle- 

 donous plant. 



Hymenia recur ralis (Fal).) — Feeds on /'JuxoJiis. Porfnlacea, 

 garden beets, coxcomb, and other amarantaceous phinis, also on 

 chenopodions weeds, spinning a slight web. 



The larvae of the genns Pldyctaenia are also leaf-rollers, or 

 mostly feed in a depression or groove of a leaf beneath a web, 

 or between spnn-together leaves. P. colliastra Meyr. — On 

 Peperomia memhranacea ; chytropa Meyr. — On hil)iscns; mon- 

 ticolans (Bntl.) — On Ipomoea hona-iwx ; nigrescois (Bntl.) — 

 On Abutdon and Sida; iocrossa Meyr. — On varions species of 

 Cyrtandra; eucrena (Meyr.)— On a labiate (Fnllaway) ; Platy- 

 leuca Meyr., and chalcophancs Meyr.— On Toucliardia latifolia; 



