PHYCITA ABIETELLA, 
SCHIFF, 
References :—Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 138. Tinea decuriella, Hiibn. Samml. eur 
Schmett, fig.74. Tinea sylvestrella, Ratz. Fortz. 1, p. 244, pl- 
15, fig. 1. Pinipestis abietivorella, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol: 
Suvr. iv, p. 701. Hamps, Faun. of Brit. Ind. Moths, iv, p. gt, 
no. 4387. 
Classification :—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-Order, HETEROCERA. 
Family, Pyralide. 
Description. 
This is a small moth ; the upper wings greyish in colour 
with blackish-brown markings ; lower wing a uniform dark grey. 
It is thus described in the Fauna of British India:— 
“Head, thorax, and abdomen grey and fuscous. Fore 
wings grey, thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous; a 
dark brown patch on base of inner area; a dark antemedial 
line with a grey band on its inner edge, angled outwards 
below costa and inwards on median nervure and vein1; a 
larger brown patch inside the grey band, less prominent towards 
costa; a prominent quadrate discocellular grey spot with a 
brown patch below it; a grey-edged dark postmedial line 
angled inwards at vein 6, then bent outwards and minutely 
dentate, some brown suffusion beyond the line; a prominent 
marginal series of dark specks. Hind wings semi-hyaline 
with a brown tinge; the cilia white, with a brown line at base. 
‘The prominence of the grey and fuscous markings of fore 
wings varies considerably. Expanse of wings 22—34 millim.’’ 
(See Pl. Il, fig. 7a.) 
Localities from which reported. 
The insect’s range as at present discovered is the forests 
situated on the Jaunsar-Barwar and Teri-Garhwal hills to as 
far west as Simla, The writer has bred out specimens from 
cones obtained from various parts of this area. 
