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The fourth stage is about 3mm. long. The whole insect is 

 now nearly all green, yellowish on thorax, and bluish below ; a 

 few pale brownish markings on thorax, wing-pads and dorsum 

 of abdomen; two fuscous spots on prothorax, one on costa of 

 tegminal-pad, near apex, one near inner angle of hind wing- 

 pad, one at lateral margin of apical segment of abdomen; a 

 fuscous spot on lateral margin at apex of second and third 

 abdominal segments; tips of tarsi fuscous; tibial spurs of 

 hind legs have four teeth. 



The fifth stage is very little larger than the fourth; colora- 

 tion the same; the sensoria on the second segment of antennae 

 are now fuscous. 



It is worthy of note that the tibial spurs of the hind legs 

 are simple in the first stage, i. e. have but one tooth and that is 

 at the apex ; and that a tooth is added for each stage to the 

 fourth ; but the fifth stage has four, the same number as the 

 fourth. In the adult there are five teeth on the tibial spur, 

 sometimes but four, and sometimes there are six. 



Life History Notes on Two Variable Tortricids. 



BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



Cryptophlebia illepida (Butler). 



The larvae of this moth may often be found very abundantly 

 in the pods of the Glue-bush (Acacia farnesiana), where they 

 feed upon the seeds and also on the pulp of the pod. They 

 feed in Koa pods and probably also in the pods of several other 

 Leguminous plants ; and have been reported from Litchi nuts. 



The eggs are roundish-oval, about O.Suim., flat, convex above 

 and finely reticulated. They are whitish, dull purplish, or 

 jiinkish in color and somewhat iridescent. They are laid on 

 the surface of the pods, singly, or often several together and 

 slightly overlapping. 



The full-grown larva is about 15mm. long, plump, dull 

 whitish with a rosy tinge ; head strongly bilobed, light brown, 

 eyes in a black dot, another black dot at postero-ventral angle 

 of head; cervical shield slightly tinged with brown; tubercles 

 broadly roundish or oval, somewhat infuscated over their whole 

 surface, those of row "i" notched on the anterior marsin 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, II, No. 1, Oct., 1908. 



