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TETRIDIA CALETORALIS, 
WLK. 
References :—WIk. Cat. xviii, p.651; C.& S. no. 4233. Botys vinacealis, 
Moore, P. Z. S, 1877, .p.619;:C.:& S. no. 4236. Polythlipta 
albieandalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 221, nnd .xxvi, pl. 8, 
figs. 7,7a,b, c. Hmpsn. Faun. Br. Ind. Moths IV, 395, 
no. 5138, 
Classification :—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-Order, HEEROCERA 
Family, Pyralide. 
Description. 
The /arve are described as being of a dirty dull cream 
colour more or less transparent. Length 1 to 1} inches, It 
has been noticed that before changing into the pupal stage they 
become light claret coloured, The caterpillar spins together a 
portion of a leaf with silk, forming a rough cocoon before 
changing into the pupal state. 
The £upa is ochreous brown, shining, and just under ? inch 
in length, 
A small moth red-brown in colour with a vinous tinge ; 
antennze of male minutely ciliated and considerably longer 
than fore wing, those of female about same length as fore 
wing ; palpi porrect triangularly scaled and white below ; fore 
tibiz and-tarsi marked with white ; mid tibiz and tarsi white; 
the tibial fringe of hair fulvous ; abdomen witha white streak 
on anal tuft. Fore-wing with waved antemedial black line; a 
waved discocellular line ; both wings with a minutely crenulated 
postmedial line, nearly straight from costa to vein 3, then 
retracted to below .end of cell, and on hind wing terminat- 
ing at anal angle; a marginal series of black specks. ¢ pale 
ochreous, rufous. Fore wing with the costa tinged with 
{uscous; the margin and cilia of both wings fuscous; the legs 
not marked with white. Expanse of wings 34 millim. See PI. 
v, fig. 6 a, 0. 
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