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brushes above and below, terminal joint rather long, plainly 

 visible beyond the hairs of the second joint ; in the male the palpi 

 are much shorter and strongly upward curved, second joint with 

 thick short brush above and beneath, terminal joint short, erect 

 and clothed with scales, so as to appear as broad as long and nearlv 

 square. Antennae in the female simple, shortly ciUate; in the 

 male with enlarged basal joint and long (2-3) ciliation. Ocelli 

 obsolete. Thorax smooth. Fore wings narrow, elongate; apex 

 pointed; termen very oblique; with raised scale tufts; 12 veins, 

 all separate; 2, 3, 4 and 5 approximate from lower corner of cell; 

 7 to termen. / Hind wings broader than the fore wing, with well 

 developed pecten on lower median vein; costa nearlv straight; 

 termen strongly oblique, straight or subsinuate; dorsal edge 

 rounded; 6 veins; veins 4 and 6 obsolete (coincident with 3 and 

 7); 3 and 5 approximate or connate; 7 to apex. Posterior tibiae 

 hairy. 



The known larvae of this genus feed in the seeds of fruits and 

 pupate in the ground in a cocoon, made of silk and particles of 

 earth. The Japanese species Carposina sasaki Matsumura* is an 

 important enemy of the peach crop of the country!. 



The genus belongs to a very abnormal group of the subfamily 

 Phaloniin<E together with one Japanese genus Propedesis Wal- 

 singhaml and three Australian genera Paramorpka Mevrick, 

 Oi'stophora Meyrick, and Coscinoptycha Meyrick.j all having the 

 characteristic reduction of veins in the hind wings and all with 

 a peculiar general habitus abnormal within the family, due to 

 their narrow, tufted fore wings and the unusual palpi. 



The group might with propriety be given separate subfamily 

 rank, with the reduction of the number of veins and the hairy 

 lower median vein as distinctive characters. 



*Entom. Nachricht. xxvi, p. 198, 1900. 



fThis is theCarpocapsa persicae Sasaki, mentioned in "Insect Life" (vol.11, 

 pp. 24, 65; IV, p. 341). This species, of which specimens from Prof. Sasaki 

 are in the National Museum, appears to be quite variable and I would suggest 

 the probability of its identity with Carposina niponensis Walsingham (Ann. 

 and Mag. N. H. vi, p. 121, 1900). 



J Ann. and Mag. N. H. vi., p. 122, 1900. 



§Proc. Linn. See. N. S. Wales, vi., p. 693, 1881. 



