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The caterpillar is green and spins together leaves t(j feed 

 between. It pupates in spun-together leaves. The pupa is 

 brown, 7-10 mm. long, with the usual two doi'sal transverse 

 rows of minute spines or serrations on the abdominal segments. 



From the lot of caterpillars and pupae collected at Wailupe, 

 the following parasites issued: 1 Echthrouiorpha fuscafor, 1 

 Pimpla lidwaiiensis, 1 Cremastus hymeriiae, 3 Chalcis obscu- 

 rata, and 1 Chalcis obscurata was dissected from a cocoon of 

 Cremastus hymeniae. 



Capua tetraplasandra n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax orange brown ; antennae light fuscous, orange 

 brown at base ; palpi orange brown outwardly, whitish on inner side ; 

 legs ochreous, the anterior pair pale brown below ; abdomen grey och- 

 reous, the anal tufts yellowish. Forewings orange brown with numerous 

 spots of metallic-tipped scales having a bluish tinge in certain angles, 

 these spots arranged in transverse rows ; a broad oblique darker brown 

 band extends from outer end of costal fold to tornus, a faint indication 

 of a similar band extending from outer end of costal fold to anal angle, 

 in both bands some groups of black scales; the somewhat triangular 

 area between these bands suffused dorsally with lemon yellow, and with 

 three black spots on hind margin ; terminal cilia ochreous with a basal 

 black band, tornal cilia entirely black. Hindwings light fuscous, the 

 costal portion pale; cilia pale, fuscous at base. Under side of wings 

 with numerous fuscous bars. One specimen has the ground color of the 

 forewings paler, and more black scales in the oblique darker bands, 

 also a sprinkling of fuscous scales in apical third. Expanse, 16-17 mm. 



Described from two males reared from larvae in fruits of 

 Tetraplasandra; the type from Kaumuahona, Oahu, ISTovemlier 

 17, 1918; the other specimen from Wailupe, Oahu, April 21, 

 1918 (Swezey). 



TiNEIDAE. 



Gracilaria neraudicola n. sp. 



^,9- Head creamy white; antennae brownish, basal segment pale; 

 palpi whitish, median joint fuscous at apex, terminal joint with fuscous 

 band at middle and at apex. Thorax brownish fuscous, pale in middle 



