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liaving- numerous l)ristles on the leaf-sheaths, the cocoons will 

 be covered with these, the latter and the fibers are laid on length- 

 wise of the cocoon and make it spindle-shaped, one side of 

 cocoon is made onto the surface of leaf-sheath or whatever it is 

 attached to. The mpth emerges in about two or three weeks. 



The adult moth is about 12 mm. with the wings spread; with 

 them folded at rest on the back the insect is 5 mm. It is not 

 conspicuous when at rest, on account of its pale color and the 

 fact that it rests so close to the object it is on, usually the under 

 side of the cane leaf, and often in the hollow next to the midrib. 

 Thev may often be seen flying when the cane is disturbed. They 

 are of a yellowish-white color (sometimes greyish-white) with 

 a few yellower streaks and numerous black dots on forewings. 

 There is a l)lack streak at apex of wing which is sharply up- 

 turned. 



Erciiiicfis iniiiiisciila Wdsm. 

 (Plate II. Figs. 7-9.) 



"Antennae rather stont. enlarged at tlie base, simple in the male; 

 creamy white. Palpi projecting more than the length of the head beyond 

 it. brnsh-like beneath; creamy vhite. Head rough; cream-colored. 

 Thorax cream-colored. Forewings cream-colored : more or less shaded 

 and speckled with umber-brown, this shading being concentrated (and 

 therefore more conspicuous) from the base along the first half of the 

 fold, from beyond the middle of the costa to the lower angle of the cell, 

 and in a subapical oblique costal streak; a dark fuscous streaklet immedi- 

 ately beftire the extreme apex is preceded by a whitish costal patch; the 

 ternien deeply incised below and opposite to it, causing the apex of the 

 wing to turn up sometimes almost at right angles to its surface ; cilia 

 creamy whitish, with a slender reduplicated umber-brown line close to 

 their tips. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hindwings, male, with a hyaline patch at 

 the base : pale golden yellowish, sometimes with a cupreous tinge : cilia 

 whitish, with a slight golden or cupreous tinge, a slender reduplicated 

 curved line of umber-brown running through them around the extreme 

 ape.x. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs creamy white." [Walsingham. 

 "Fauna Hawaiiensis," T. Pt. V, p. 716. 1907. 1 



This moth is closely related in habits to the preceding, except 

 that I have never yet found its larvae feeding in cane, though I 

 have taken the moth in cane fields. It is more con^mon to find 

 them feeding on the dead leaves of palm, banana, pandanus. etc., 



