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 1. N. filicicola Kirk. 



This differs from the species of Aloha by the very short teg- 

 mina of a coriaceous texture and with reticulated surface. Anal 

 spines short, thick, straight, bases contiguous, diverging; styles on 

 the plan of A. ipomoeae : aedeagus flattened laterally, a cock's comb 

 of three spines on dorso-apical area and a single one on ventral area 

 near apex, a large one on left side near apex. I should consider 

 this as a development of the ipomoeae group. 



PI. 2, %. 28; PI. 4, fig. 76. 



2. ry\ lumhata (Kirk.). 



Nesopleia,'^ nimhata Kirkaldy, 1910, 1. c. 



This has the same short tegmina as filicicola but not so coria- 

 ceous or with such distinctly reticulated surface. Anal spines very 

 long and thin, slightly diverging towards apices; styles somewhat 

 like those of A. kirkulclyi but shallowly emarginate on outer edge; 

 aedeagus laterally flattened, three small spines on dorso-apical area, 

 a large blunt one on dorso-apical area, four or five on ventro-apical 

 area and a large one on ventro-basal area, a large spine on right 

 side toward apex.* 



Whilst these two species are congeneric, the question arises 

 whether they are homophyletic, or if one has branched from 

 the ipomoeae gronp and the other from the l-irhaldyi group. 



PL 2, %. 29; PI. 4, hg. 77. 



DICTYOPIIORODELPHAX Swezey. 



Dictyopliorodelplia.v Swezey, 1907, Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, 

 I, (3) p. 104. 



1. D. mirabilis (Swezey). 



By the single frontal carina this species shonld come near 

 one of the Nesosydne gronp, but the aedeagus has greater 

 affinity to Nesorestias filicicola, so that .there is the possibility 

 of the single carina being of independent origin. 



Anal segment sunk well into pygophor, anal spines very minute; 

 pygophor very shallow; styles broad at base, curved, with long spine 

 at apex nearly at right angle to broad basal portion; aedeagus flat- 

 tened laterally, deep for basal two-thirds, a "cock's comb" of five 

 spines on dorso-apical area and some five or six small spines on left 

 side near apex. 



*In specimens taken by Mr. Timberlake off Phegopteris the spine 

 on right side .of aedeagus is not so large and the ventral spine thinner. 



