i8 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. IV. 



in the Indian Museum from caterpillars found attacking an evergreen 

 plant in Calcutta. 



This species has been previously referred to in Indian Museum 

 Notes, Volume II, No. 6, page 157, as defoliating tea bushes in Assam, 

 Sikkim and Ceylon. 



The following is Mr. Moore's description of the above : — 



Oikeiicus Cramer it, Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1854, 

 p. 236, pi. 2,1, fig. 4- 



Cryptothelea consort a, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv^ 

 p. 970 [nee Templeton). 



Eumeta Nietneri, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. iv., pi. 83, fig. 21 

 (1868-74). 



Male greyish-brown ; fore wing with the median vein and sub- 

 costal branches and the sub-median vein black ; interspaces between 

 lower subcostal and the radials and between the forked upper 

 medians hoary-white ; the interspace between lo\Yer radial and upper 

 median and below the sub-median being rufous-brown. Body brown, 

 thorax with a few interspaced long fine black hairs ; legs yellow, 

 femora and tibiae very laxly covered with fine long brown and black 

 hairs. 



Expanse ly^o to i^^ inch. 



Larval case covered with slender twigs of irregular length, which 

 are disposed longitudinally side by side in a somewhat spiral form. 



In June 1894 specimens of a Psychid caterpillar collected in 



Psychid caterpillar de- Calcutta by one of the Museum collectors 



structive to grass. were brought in the Museum with the 



information that the insects were destructive to grass used for 



thatching houses. 



According to the informations gathered from a ticket attached 

 to an old specimen of the larval-case of this species, the insect 

 attacks " Jhalas" grass growing on the banks of rivers, from the 

 flower stems of which a fine string is made, the grass itself being 

 used for thatching. The local name of the caterpillar is Khati dhaka 

 poka = worm in sack. 



The caterpillars that were bred in the Indian Museum trans- 

 formed into pupae about the middle of August, moths commenced 

 to emerge on the 14th of September, and these proved to be new to 

 the Indian Museum collection. Specimens were therefore sub- 

 mitted through Mr. F. Moore to Mr. J. F. Hampson, who kindly 



