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as well. They burrow in the pith of some plants, even in living 

 plants to some extent. I have fonnd them on recently dead 

 branches of ''mamake." They are bro^^Tiish and Avell protected 

 by silken tunnels. 



FAMILY IIYPONOMEUTIDAE. 



Hyposmocoma chilonella Walsm. — This variable species has 

 a long slender whitish larva which bores in dead branches of 

 "mamake." Probably they are to be found in other trees as 

 M^ell, but all that I have reared were from ''mamake/' though 

 I have often found similar larvae in dead branches of many 

 kinds of trees. This species is remarkable for the fact that the 

 larval habit is different from others of the genus, it being a 

 wood-borer and without a case; whereas, the larvae which are 

 known of this Hawaiian genus with 177 species, live in cases, 

 each peculiar to the species. 



Hyposmocoma sp. — I have found the larval cases of some 

 species which I was unable to rear, - inside burrows of other 

 insects in dead branches of "•mamake." 



FAMILY TORTBICIDAE. 



Archips postvittanus (Walk.) 



Amorhia emigratella Busck. — The green larvae of these 

 two yellowish introduced Tortricids are leaf-folders or leaf- 

 rollers on many kinds of plants and shrubs. I- have found them 

 on "mamake." 



Epagoge infaustana Walsm. — This is a native Tortricid 

 whose greenish larvae feed in the tips of growing shoots of 

 *'inamake" ; also in folded leaves or between fastened-together 

 leaves. I do not know of their feeding on any other plant. 



FAIMILY TIXEIDAE. 



Opogona aunsquamosa (Butl.) — Larvae of this Tineid I 

 have often found in decaying branches of ''mamake" and be- 

 neath dead bark. They are rather general scavengers, feeding 

 among dead leaves and in dead branches of many kinds of plants. 

 They are often abundant in dead sugar cane and that which has 

 been much eaten by the cane borer. 



Ereunetis minuscula (Butl.) — Larvae of this Tineid have 

 somewhat similar habits to the preceding species, though 



