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Miscellaneous Notes. 



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" Sphbnarches, Mejr. 



(S ? CAFFEE, Z. 



Pterophorus coffer, Ti. — Hand. Kong. Svensk. Vet-AK., 1852, 118. 

 Oxyptilus caffer, Z.— Lin. Ent., VI, 348-49 (1852) ; Wkr. Cat. Lep. Ins. 



B-M. XXX, 934 (1864) ; Wlsm., Tr. Eut. Soc , 1881, 279; Meyr., Tr. 



Ent. Soc, 1887, 2fi8. 

 " Sphenarches caffer, Meyr.— Tr. Ent. Soc, 1887, 268. 

 *' = Oxyptilus anisodactylus, Wkr. — Cat. Lep. Ins. B. — M. XXX 



934-353 (1864); Moore, Lep. Ceyl., Ill, 528 (1887) ; Meyr., Tr. Eut] 



Soc, 1887, 268. (Type c? ? B-M.) 

 " = Oxyptilus walkeri, Wlsm. — Tr. Ent. Soc, 1881, '279 ; Meyr., Tr. 



Ent. Soc, 1887, 268. (Type, Cape Tov\,i Mns.) 

 " =Sj)henarches synophrys, Meyr.— Tr. Ent. Soc, 1886, 17 ; 1887, 268. 



(Type, S Mas. Meyr.) 

 " Larva — on " Calabash " (West Africa) : in " Lablab " pods (India). 

 " Jwa^o— March (N.-S.-W.) 



" i?a5. —Australia (N.-S.-W.), New Hebrides, Tonga Is. 

 Africa (Natal, Caffraria, Gambia, East Africa). 

 Asia (India, Ceylon, Burma, Jiipan). 

 (Type, $, Stockholm Mas.) " 



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i\-om Mr. L. Wray, Jr., Curator of the Perak Museum, were received 

 Perak Pomelo Moth. in October 1S90 specimens of the moth which he 



has found destructive 

 to pomeloesj limes/and 

 lemons in Perak. The 

 specimens were for- 

 warded to Mr. P. 

 Moore, who identified 

 them as belonging to 

 a new species of P^^- 

 cltidce which he de- 

 scribes as Nepho^pteryx 

 sagittiferella. The 



following is his de- 

 scription :— 



" Nephopteryx sagittiferella, nov. sp., Moore. 



"Closely allied to N. pJiysostigmalis, Walker, described in the Proceedings of the 

 Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh for 1869, the larva of which is stated to feed 

 upon the ' Esere ' or ' Ordeal Bean ' of Old Calabar. 



" Fore wing slightly broader, paler ferruginous, brown, the costal area and 

 between the outer veins silvery-grey ; on the discal area is a transverse curved series 

 of elongated very acute sagittate points, which are blackish and with a greyish outer 

 line ; at the end uf the outer veins is a prominent blackish pointed-dot. Hind wing 

 also broader, pale, pinkish cinereous, silvery-grey along the anterior border (not brown, 

 a.s, m N. pliysostig'malis);YQms externally, and the marginal and cilial line, brown- 



