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Cryptophlehia carpopJiaga, Wlsm., sp. n. 



Antennas pale tawny. Palpi tawny, paler on their inner 

 sides, shaded with fuscous externally. Head tawny, shaded with 

 reddish fuscous above. Thorax blackish, tegulae tawny tipped 

 with tawny fuscous. Forewings tawny, with a blackish patch 

 extending over the whole space beneath the fold from the base to 

 the tornus, a slight admixture of bone-grey scales towards the latter 

 and with a small triangular ill-defined patch at its outer end (the 

 base resting on the dorsum), in the tornal region the tawny scaling 

 blends into bone-white • along the costa are alternate broad and 

 narrow oblique vinous streaks, and the apex is cut off by an out- 

 wardly curved, but not well-defined band of fuscous and purplish 

 scales extending from below the outer third of the costa to a point 

 somewhat below the middle of the termen ; a small bone-white spot 

 is situated at the end of the cell, preceded and followed by a few 

 blackish and purplish scales ; cilia dark purplish on the upper two- 

 thirds of the margin, bone-whitish below, with a purplish parting 

 streak running through them at the tornus. Exp. al. i8mm. $ 17 mm 

 Hindwings brownish fuscous ; cilia greyish with an iridescent 

 tinge, a narrow pale parting line running along their base. 

 Abdomen greyish with a slight ochreous tinge, a black tuft above 

 the anal segments which are distinctly vinous beneath. Hindlegs 

 bone-grey with the tufts on the tibiae strongly iridescent dark 

 purplish on the upper sides. 

 Type $ 2 Mus. Wlsm. 



Bad, India, Calcutta (1894) ; Hooghly (1895). Larva in pods of 

 Cassia fistula (1894) and of C. occidentalism L. (1895). Moths 

 emerged 4th January 1895. 



The structure of the % is conspicuously different in the absence 

 of the tufts on the hind legs, which are, however, somewhat hairy, 

 and the smooth abdomen and perfectly normal neuration of the 

 hindwings which show but little sign of the pouch-like fold in the 

 neighbourhood of the abdominal margin. 



The forewings are reddish — tawny, the space beneath the fold 

 and about the tornus sprinkled with bone-white, a small inconspi- 

 cuous patch of the reddish ground-colour extending to the dorsum 

 across the middle of the fold, and a conspicuous clearly defined 

 rich reddish-tawny spot immediately before the tornus, far more 

 conspicuous than in the ^ , the vinous streaks along the costa are 

 scarcely noticeable, being absorbed into the more similar general 



