SEP 26 1899 



Vol. IV. 1 [No, S. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



i.— Description of two new species of Tineina 

 FROM Bengal. By the Right Hon. Lord Wal- 

 siNGHAM, M. A., F.R.S., etc. 

 Plate No. VII. 



Tineina. 

 tortricid/^. 



OlETHREUTIN/E. 



Cryptophlebia, Wlsm., gen. n. 

 I. Type Cryptophlebia carpophagaf^ Wlsm. 



Antenna $ moderately stout, simple, about half the length of 

 the forewings. Palpi short, stout, projecting scarcely half their 

 length beyond the head, apical joint short, depressed ; second joint 

 thickly clothed above and below with closely packed scales, giving 

 a somewhat triangular appearance. Head thickly clothed above. 

 Thorax stout. Forewings about twice as long as broad, costa 

 scarcely convex, termen oblique, tornus rounded, dorsum some- 

 what abruptly angulated near the base, Neuration \2 veins, 2 

 from a little beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4, and 5 closely approximate 

 at the lower angle of cell ; 7 and 8 separate enclosing the apex, 

 Hindwings ( $ ) about as broad as the forewings, triangular, apex 

 depressed, abdominal margin shortened, very hairy, with a pouch- 

 like fold along vein 2 containing a thick tuft of scales on the upper 

 side, accompanied by some strongly curved scales on the under- 

 side along the margin. Neuration 8 veins, vein 2 concealed in 

 the tuft of scales, 3 and 4 connate (or very closely approximate), 

 5 closely approaching 6 at the outer margin, 6 and 7 normal, but 

 somewhat bent downwards at their origin, 8 free. Abdomen dense- 

 ly hairy above. Legs : all the tibise thickly tufted, first tarsal joints 

 of the hindlegs also tufted. 



This genus comes into the same group as Platypepluni^ Wlsm. 

 {■=.Platypeplus^ Wlsm, laps, cal.) 



* The examples from which this species is described, were reared in the Indian Museum 

 from pods of both Cassia fistula, Linn., in Calcutta (1894), ^^^ C. Occidentalis, Linn., from 

 Hooghly (1895). The specimens of pods were brought to the Museum by one of the 

 Museum Collectors, E. 6. 



