virgula (Oechalia) Van Duzee 1936: 220 . [Fig. 232]

Original data: “ Paratypes, 3 males taken with the holotype, six males taken at Kilauea, Hawaii, at 4,000 ft., Jan. 19, 1917 (W. M. Giffard), and one female taken at same place Aug. 5, 1919 (O. H. Swezey); two dark males taken in the Dry Forest, Hawaii, Jan. 1917 (Muir and Giffard) ; one female from Mt. Tantalus at 1,300 ft. (W. M. Giffard) ; one female from Alakai Swamp, Kauai, July 1917 (C. N. Forbes) ; one female from Kahuku, Kau, Hawaii, on “a-a” flows at 1,800 ft., May 29, 1918 (W. M. Giffard).”

PARATYPE ♂: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ Kilauea, Haw. 19-I-17 4000 ft. ”; “ W. M. Giffard Coll. ”; “ Coll. F. Muir ”; “ Oechalia virgula Van D. Det. by R.L. Usinger ”; “PARATYPE virgula EP Van Duzee ”; “Brit. Mus . 1947-80”; “ NHMUK 010592459 ”. Right middle and posterior legs missing; abdomen partially disjointed from thorax (Fig. 232) .

Current status: Oechalia virgula Van Duzee, 1936 .

Note: Van Duzee had noted: “The types of the new species here described have been placed in the Bishop Museum.” Our paratype was presented to NHMUK on 3/1/1947 by Dr. R. L. Usinger. It is one of the four male paratypes with similar data that Usinger (1941: 84) mentioned to be at hand (out of the six in the original description).