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moderately curved throughout, more curved before apex; apex little 
obtuse, termen scarcely sinuate, little oblique. Pale ochreous-yellow, 
markings formed by pale fuscous fine transverse strigulation, narrowly 
edged with dark fuscous interrupted lines. Basal patch rather large, 
suffused with darker fuscous along costa, edge vertical above, angularly 
projecting somewhat above middle, slightly inwards-oblique below this; 
central fascia represented by a vertical broad blotch extending from a 
little beyond 1 j a to slightly before a / 3 of costa, reaching from costa to fold, 
with a narrow oblique projection running above fold to tornus, gradually 
narrowed posteriorly; anterior edge of blotch bluntly angulate at 1 / 3 , 
posterior gradually convex; a vertical moderately broad transverse fascia 
from costa before apex, irregularly interrupted below middle by rounded 
spots of ground colour, anteriorly edged with dark fuscous short vertical 
lines, posteriorly connected by sparse fuscous transverse strigulation with 
pale fuscous suffusion along termen. Cilia (damaged) fuscous with a basal 
row of pale ochreous subtriangular spots ; cilia in tornus pale yellow. Hind 
wing and cilia pale ochreous-brownish, glossy. 
Tegumen rounded, broad, top indent, bristled. Uncus absent. Socius 
large, porrect. Gnathos absent. Transtilla absent. Valva narrow, bent, 
bristled, sacculus with a series of long bristles. Saccus small. Anellus strong. 
Aedoeagus curved, robust, little sclerotized. Cornuti (broken), short spines. 
(Slide No. 472 D). 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, March 2, 1939. One specimen. 
CARPOSINIDAE 
This family forms a natural and very distinct group, and stands isolated. 
In consequence of the last mentioned fact it has been subject to frequent 
rearrangements in the system, and was moved back and forth between 
the groups “Tortricina” and “Tineina”. It seems advisable for the time 
being to let it keep an intermediate position between these two groups. 
Meyrick has pointed out (1922) that the family must be of considerable 
antiquity and in a stage of decline. Many forms being extinct, it is difficult 
to ascertain the true affinity of the Carposinidae. It is possible, however, 
that new forms belonging to this family will be found though, to prove 
that it might form a connection between the two above mentioned groups 
of families. The existence of the family Carposinidae, ipso facto, makes an 
absolute separation of a superfamily “Tortricoidea” from “Tineoidea” 
problematic. That such a separation is artificial has recently been stipulated 
by the late A. Jefferis Turner, shortly before his death ( Proc . Linn. 
Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 71, p. 303, 1947), and also by Dr. A. J. T. Janse 
[Moths of 8. Africa, vol. 1, pp. 60 — 61, 1936). 
The neuration of the hind wing in Carposinidae is typical by constant 
reduction of one of the M-branches, either M 3 or M 2 . It is not easy to 
ascertain which of these veins is lacking. Meyrick, who was the first to 
