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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Orne OI)I D/E. (Alucitidje). 
The forewing divided into six distinct plumes. 
Less than ten species are recorded from India, wholly from the hills. 
A larger number is known from Ceylon ; the genus Orneodes includes our 
species, none of which will be found in the plains. The student will find 
descriptions in Meyrick’s papers in the Bombay Journal and elsewhere 
(Trans. Ent. Soc., London, 1907, p. 507). 
Pterophorid,®. 
Small slender moths, in which the forewings are narrow and divided 
into two, three or four narrow lobes , the hindwings 
of one, two or three lobes. 
These moths are clearly recognisable from their form and the 
structure of the wings. Their appearance is extremely graceful, as they 
rest on leaves with the wings and legs extended and fly somewhat slowly 
Their colours are light, dull ochre and brown on a lighter ground 
colour as a rule. The body is slender, the abdomen ovate and long ; 
the long narrow wings are fringed with scales which in some species are 
in part capitate and rather large. The tiny legs are conspicuously spur, 
red and in some species the hindlegs are held out over the body and very 
noticeable. 
Of the few known Indian species several are known in the larval 
stage. The eggs are oval, not flattened, and smooth, laid singly on the 
foodplant (Plate LIII ) ; the larvae are slender, oval, the body set with 
spines and with capitate hairs which radiate from tubercular points ; 
they feed openly, as a rule, and are cryptically coloured to resemble the 
foodplant. Their perfectly oval form, the indistinctness of their seg¬ 
mentation, their clothing of hairs and spines, these characters render 
them recognisable ; if a pupa is also found, there can be no doubt as to 
the recognition of the family since the pupa closely resembles the larva, 
having almost the same shape, the same colour, with the same covering 
of hairs and spines and lying openly on the foodplant as does the larva. 
It is soft and quite unlike the ordinary pupa of this order, being attached 
by a cremaster, and in some cases by a few threads of silk under the 
abdomen in which the hairs are entangled. Indian Pterophorids are but 
