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Miscellaneous Notes. 



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'' SpHENAKCHBSj Me} T. 



($ ? caff;ee, Z. 



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

 Oxyi'tilus caffer, Z.— Lin. Ent., VI, 348-49 (1852) ; Wkv. Cat. Lep. Ins. 

 B~M. XXX, 934 (1864) ; Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc, 188], 279; Mejr., Tr. 

 Ent. Soc, 1887, 2fi8. 

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

 " ^ Oxyptdus anisodactylus, Wkr. — Cat. Lep. Ins. B. — M. XXX 

 934-853(1864); Moore, Lep. Ceyl, III, 528 (1887) ; Mejr., Tr. Ent! 

 Soc, 1887, 268. (Type ^ ? B-xM.) 

 " = Oxyftilus ivalkeri, Wlsm.— Tr. Ent. Soc, 1881, '279 ; Meyr., Tr. 



Ent. Soc, 1867, 268. (Type, Cape Town Mus.) 

 " =S2}henarches synophrys, Meyr.— Tr. Ent. Soc, 1886, 17 ; 1887, 268, 



(Type, <$ Mus.Meyr.l 

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

 "Jma^o— March (N.-S.-W.) 



" ^«&. -Australia (N.-S.-W.), New Hebrides, Tonga Is. 

 Africa (JSTatal, Caffraria, Gambia, East Africa), 

 Asia (India, Ceylon, Burma, Japan). 

 (Type, $, Stockholm Mus.) " 



From 

 Perak 



Mr. L. Wray, Jr., Curator of the Perak Museum, were received 

 Pomelo Moth. in October 1H90 specimens of the moth which he 



has found destructive 

 to pomeloes, limes, and 

 lemons iu Perak. The 

 specimens were for- 

 warded to Mr. F. 

 Moore, who identified 

 them as belonging to 

 a new species of Phy- 

 citidce which he de- 

 scribes as Nephopteryx 

 sngittiferella. The 



fcdlowing" is his de- 

 scription :— 



" Nephopteryx sagittiferella, nov. sp., Moore. 



"Closely allied to N. physosUgmalis, 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 of the outer veins is a prominent blackish pointed-dot. Hind wing 

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

 as in N. physosfigmalis) ; veins externally, and the marginal and cilial line, brown- 



