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sometimes iridescent, becoming pinkish a little before hatching. 



On hatching, the larva bores into the pod, feeding for awhile 

 in its fleshy walls, but when it gets larger, attacks the seeds. 

 One larva may eat several of the large seeds before reaching its 

 full growth. When full-grown, the larva is 18 to 20 mm., 

 plump, yellowish white ; head medium brown, strongly bilobed ; 

 cervical shield slightly infuseated; tubercles faintly infus- 

 cated; hairs pale, short; spiracles pale brown. 



Before pupating the larva constructs a silken gallery where 

 it has been feeding, extending often through one or more beans, 

 and it finally extends this to the outer wall of the pod, through 

 which it eats a circular hole, except a thin layer on the outside, 

 which can easily be broken through when the moth emerges; 

 then the larva recedes back into the gallery, spins a silken par- 

 tition across about a quarter of an inch from the outer end, 

 and in this place of security pupates. 



The pupa is 10mm. ; light brown ; head, thorax and wing 

 cases darker ; the latter and antenna-cases extend to apex of 

 3rd abdominal segment, a free tip extends a little farther. 

 Abdominal segments 3 to 7 have on dorsal side two transverse 

 rows of nmnerous tiny, very short, conical spines, those of the 

 anterior row larger than those of posterior row; segment 2 has 

 one row of very tiny spines near posterior margin; segment 

 8 has but one row of few large spines ; segment 9 has but tw^o 

 large dorsal spines and a terminal row of 7, there are also 

 several slender hooked bristles at apex of abdomen. 



This and Cryptophlehia illepida are two very variable 

 species. They illustrate the great variability among the 

 Tortricids of the Hawaiian Islands, as shown by tbe 

 series of specimens exhibited. This variability has led 

 to some confusion by Lord Walsingham in his recently 

 published "Microlepidoptera" (Fauna Hawaiiensis, I, Pt. V). 

 He has apparently often made varieties of some of these vari- 

 ations. Each species and variety is figured; hence, it should 

 be easy to identify any Hawaiian "Micro" ; but on account of 

 such great variation in so many species, one may often not 

 have a specimen of any certain species, which agrees with the 

 particular specimen figured by Lord Walsingham. This makes 

 it very difiicult to identify specimens with any certainty, altho 

 from a first glance at the excellent colored plates, it would 

 appear an easy matter. 



