﻿2i8 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. V, 



TORTRICIDAE. 



Peronea divisana, Walk. 

 Phagu, vSimla Hills, 9,000 feet in Ma}^ (Annandale). 



EUCOSMIDAE. 



c? -^Eucosma balanopiycha, n. sp. 



cf $ . 12-14 mm. Head and thorax grey or brownish, thorax 

 more or less irrorated wirh dark fuscous. Palpi moderate, 

 porrected. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa 

 gently arched, in c^ without fold, apex obtuse, termen abrupth^ 

 sinuate-indented beneath apex, then rounded, somewhat oblique ; 

 dark grey, sprinkled with whitish specks ; costa marked with 

 groups of ver}" fine oblique alternate whitish and dark fuscous 

 strigulae ; a trapezoidal blotch of whitish irroration on dorsum 

 beyond middle ; a more or less marked dark stria from middle of 

 costa to tornus, angulated in middle, where it forms a small spot ; 

 upper end of ocellus indicated bj^ some whitish suffusion edged by 

 an irregular black line, between which and costa is a subterminal 

 series of short black marks ; a round dark fuscous apical spot 

 edged with whitish : cilia grey sprinkled with blackish and whitish. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked; dark fuscous, darker posteriorly; 

 longitudinal hyaline patches in and beneath cell towards base ; 

 in cf beneath an elongate subdorsal glandular patch of dense dark 

 fuscous scales, extending from near base to tornus, and an 

 elongate blackish dorsal patch alongside ; cilia fuscous, darker 

 toward base, tips whitish-tinged. 



Puri, Orissa coast, in October (Annandale) ; Konkan, Bombay 

 (Young); Maskeli3^a, Ceylon, in June (Alston); three specimens. 



Argyroploce illepida , Butl. 



{Teras illepida, Butl., Trans. Ent. vSoc, Loud., 1882, 42; 

 Arotrophora ombrodelta, Low., Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, 1898, 

 48; Cryptophlehia carpophaga , Wals., Ind. Mus. Not., iv, 106, 

 pi. vii, i; Cryptophlehia illepida^ Wals., Faun. Haw. i, 68r, pi. x, 



23-25-) 



Calcutta, bred from litchi fruit in June, and at light in August 



(Annandale). Having obtained a series of the Hawaiian form, I 



find it is identical with Australian, Indian, and vSouth African 



examples ; the larva feeds in various fruits. 



Argyroploce aprobola , Meyr. 



Puri, Orissa, in October; Ouilon, Travancore, in November 

 (Annandale). This widel)'- distributed insect is doubtless attached 

 to some garden tree or plant. 



