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LEPIDOPTERA. 
destruction to pigeon pea in the cold weather. It is not recorded as 
breeding in the hot weather and rains, and probably lives over as a 
moth. 
Sphenarches caffer, Zell., has a similar life-history and its larva occurs 
sparingly on the pigeon pea with it. It also breeds on the leaves of 
Cucurbitaceous plants during 
the hot weather and rains, 
and is thus found breeding 
practically throughout the 
year. 
Platyptilia brachymorpha, 
Meyr., is a moderately large 
brown moth, whose larva has 
been found eating into the 
flower buds of Celsia coroman- 
deliana, a common wild plant 
in North India, growing during the cold weather. The larva is green 
with many brown scale-like hairs. Deuterocopus tengstrcemi, Zell., is a 
smaller ferruginous species, the forewing divided, the hindwing a 
simple capitate process, found sitting on plants. It occurs throughout 
the East. 
Fig. 343— Sphenarches caffer, resting 
ATTITUDE X 4. 
Diacrotricha callimeres , Meyr., is found sitting on the leaves of Aver- 
rhoa carambola , in great abundance at some seasons. The small greyish 
moth is very graceful, sitting with expanded wings and hindlegs held out 
over the body. The little green larva feeds on the leaf, letting itself 
down actively on a long thread of silk in a very curious manner; the 
pupa is fixed to the leaf without any cocoon. Mr. Bainbrigge Fletcher 
has found the larva feeding in the flowers of Averrhoa bilimbi in Ceylon. 
Sesiim. 
Clear wings.—Hindwing with vein 8 absent, vein 1 c. present. Larva 
boring with 5 pairs of prolegs. Pupa in bore. 
A family of small moths, most of which have clear wings and mimic 
Hymenoptera. The wings are small, narrow and hyaline, the body 
narrow, the antennae moderately long and slightly clubbed ; the legs are 
often tufted with long hairs ; the flight is rapid and the moths are found 
