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Mr. Murray writes that the caterpillar reappeared on a portion of the 

 Lankapara tea garden early in May, the larva being then very small ; 

 he describes them as " mere threads/' when they were very difficult 

 to find, but they developed very rapidly, and by the first week in June 

 were full-fed. They have affected the upper end of the garden only. 

 Children were largely employed hand-picking the larvae. It was at 

 the lower end of the garden that such large numbers of the pupae 

 were destroyed in the spring, and Mr. Murray hopes that the cater- 

 pillars will not appear there later on. The moth is evidently double- 

 brooded in the Duars, the caterpillars being found in May and June, 

 and again in the autumn. 



3. Capua coffearia, Nietner. Family Tortricidae. Sub-order 

 Phalaense, Order Lepidoptera. 



Mr. E. Ernest Green in a letter dated 10th June, 1901, writes : — 



" I enclose some remarks on the synonymy of Capua coffearia, Nietner, of 

 which you may be able to make some use. You will find references to the de- 

 structiveness of the insect in my Circular, Series I, No. 19, September 1900, ' Some 

 Caterpillar Pests of the Tea Plant,' pp 239-265." 



The remarks referred to above consist of some MS. Notes by 

 Mr. J. H. Durrant, wh. writes ; — 



"In 1890 Mr. E. C. Cotes of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, submitted to me a 

 dark female of C. coffearia, Nietner. I returned it "to him as Capua menciana, 

 Walker. I now consider this identification erroneous, and should regard it as a 

 dark variety of Homona fasciculana, Walker. Capua menciana occurs in Japan, 

 Shanghai, Sikkim, th.2 Khasias, Assam, Borneo, Pulo Laut Island, Celebes, Portu- 

 guese Timor, and Batchian, vide Walsingham, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist, 

 seventh series, vol. v, pp. 482, 483 (1900); but I have not yet seen a specimen 

 of this species from Ceylon. I named your [ Green's ] specimens referred to in 

 your "Insect Pests of the Tea Plant," pp. 89-93, figs. 17 a— e (1890), Homona 

 fasciculana, Walker. Lord Walsingham and I are agreed that Tortrix coffearia, 

 N\etnev=Homona fasciculana, Walker. The synonymy will therefore be as 

 below :— 



Group TINE1NA. 



Family TORTRICID^. 



Genus Capua, Stephens. 



Capua, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent., Hanst, vol. iv, p. 171 (1834). 



Homona, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. vol. xxviii, p. 424 (1863). 



Godana, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M., vol. xxxv, p. 1800 (1866). 



751(4). Capua coffearia, Nietner (n. syn.^fasciculana, Walker; 

 =:sp„ Green ; = menciana, Cotes {nee Walker). 



Tortrix coffearia, Nietner, Obs. Enemies Coffee-tree, Ceylon, pp. 4, 24, n. 19 

 (1861/; Homona fasciculana, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ins. British b Museum, vol. 



