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Indian Eco?iomic I'jntomology, 



[Vol. n. 



In December 1890 were received^ from the Overseer of the Government 

 Lnbliili Flume Moth. Farm, Nagpur, 



amongst other 

 pests, pods of 

 Dolichos lablah 

 tunnelled by the 

 larvse of a minute 

 Plume moth. 

 The caterpillai's 

 were reared in 

 the Museum and 

 the moths were 

 forwarded to 



Lord Walsing- 

 ham, who identi- 

 fied them as be- 

 longing to the 



species Sphenarches cajfer,' of Zeller ^. Lord Walsingham gives the 



synon3^my of this species as follows; — 



' Lord Wiilsinghnm notes tliat a pupa case, sent to him from West Afrien, corres]ioiicls 

 precisely with the figure made by the Indian Museum artist from a Nagpur specimen, and 

 that the only difference he has observed between the motlis from Nagpur and those that 

 have been sent to him from Africn, consists in the Magpur specimens having the tooth of 

 dark scales, on the hind margin of the third lobe of the hind wings, a very little fui-ther 

 removed fi'ora the apex, even this slight difference not holding good thronghont a series 

 from Burma. Should it turn out, however, that there are two species, (hen the name S. 

 caffer, of Zeller, will belong to the African foruo. 



