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Indian Economic Entomologt/. 



[Vol. 11. 



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



Lablak Plume Moth. Farm, Nagpui, 



amongst other 

 pests, pods of 

 Dolichos labial) 

 tunnelled by the 

 larvse of a minute 

 Plume moth. 

 The caterpillars 

 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 Walsinghara gives the 



synonymy of this species as follows '. — 



■ ^trr^frr-'.-'-O -jnniadnecsft t^. 



'. '-KAwearaHaes; 



^S^ 





' Lord Walsinghara notes tlint a pupa case, sent to him from West Afrlcsi, corresponds 

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

 that the only diiference he has observed between the moths from Nagpur and those that 

 have been sect to him from Africa, consists in the Nagpur specimens having the tooth of 

 dark scales, on the hind margin of the third lobe of the hind wings, a very little furtlier 

 removed from the apex, even this slight difference not holding good throughout a series 

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

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



