1 88 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. V. 



xxviii, p. 424, n. 1 (1863) 2 ; Tortrix coffearia, Guenee, Rev. de Zool., second 

 series, vol. xvi, p. 61, n. 20 (1864) 3 ; Nietner, Obs. Enemies Coffee-tree, Ceylon 

 (2nd edn.), pp. 4, 17, n, 19 (i8/2) 4 ; idem, Green's 3rd edn., pp. 4, 16, n. 19 

 (1880) 5 ; Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. iii, p. 494 (1887) 6 ; Homona fasciculana, Moore, 

 Lep. Cey., vol. iii, p. 496 (1887) 7 ; Tortrix coffearia, Cotes and Swinhoe, 

 Cat. Moths India, p. 696, n. 4747 (C889) 8 ; Homona fasciculana, Cotes and 

 Swinhoe, Cat. Moths India, p. 700, n. 4774 (1889) 9 ; Cacoecia sp., Green, Ins. 

 Pests Tea Plant, pp. 8g«93, figs. 17a — e (1890) °; Pandemis menciana, Cotes, 

 Ind. Mus. Notes, vol. ii, n. 6, p. 163, n. 146 (1893) 11 ; Tortrix coffearia, Cotes, 

 Ind. Mus. Notes, vol. ii, n. 6, p. 163, n. 147 (1893) 12 ; Capua fasciculana 

 Walsingham and Durrant, Cat. East, and Aus. Lep. Het. Oxford Un. Mus»» 

 vol. ii, p. 575, n. 3690 (igoo) 13 . 



Types: <J ?. coffearia, Nietner, ?. Mus [ — ?— j ; fasciculana, 

 Walker, 6*. Mus. Br. 



Habitat: Ceylon W8 — Dickaya 10 II (Green); Peradeniya 

 (Thwattes, Green); Pundalaya, II, XII (Green) j Nawalapitiya {Pole); 

 Kandy {Green). 



LARVA : Coffea arabica™, Coffee \* — °) ; garden plants (\ 4 — a ) ; 

 Camellia theifera 11 , Tea 10 . 



The above synonymy is abstracted by Mr. Durrant from his and 

 Lord Walsingham' s forthcoming index of the Tineina. 



The only references to this insect in " Indian Museum Notes " are 

 Nos. 10 and 1 1 of the synonymy given above. Both the species 

 mentioned should be known as Capua coffearia, Nietner. A good 

 description of this insect and the damage done by it to the tea-plant 

 will be found in Mr. E. Ernest Green's Circular, Series I, No. 19, 

 "Some Caterpillar Pests of the Tea Plant/' pp. 244-274, nn. 1 

 and 2 (1900). 



4. Acanthopsyche (Pteroma) plagiophleps, Hampson. Family 

 Psvchidae. Suborder Phalsense. Order Lepidoptera. 



Pteroma plagiophleps, Hampson, 111. Lep. Het. B. M. vol, ix, p. 6, n. 122, 

 p. 65, pi. clix, fig. 19, male ; 19a, neuration of male ; pi. clxxvi, fig. 13 

 puparium of male showing projecting pupa-case after the moth has emerged 

 (1893); Acanthopsyche (Pteroma) plagiophleps, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths 

 vol. i, p. 296, n. 628 (1892). 



This moth has hitherto only been known from Nawala-pittia, 

 Ceylon. Hampson describes the male as "uniform pale brown; the 

 under side of the hind wing bluish-white. Larva-case suspended by a 

 long silken thread ; both case and thread covered with comminuted 

 fragments of leaves. Expanse : t 6 millim. " ("6 of an inch). Mr. G. C. 

 Dudgeon, Manager of the Holta Tea Co., Kangra Valley, Punjab, 

 furnishes the following notes on the insect:-— 



"This bag-worm occurs commonly on tea in the Kangra Valley, doing some 

 damage to isolated bushes but not appearing to spread to any great extent. The 



