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CRYPTOPHLEBIA CARPOPHAGA, 
WLSM. 
Reference :—Wlsm. Indian Mus. Not. iv. 3, 106. 
Classification :—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-Order, HETEROCERA: 
Family, Tortricidae, Sub-Family, Olethrentinee. 
Description. 
The /arva is about five-eighths of an inch in length, but 
though it has been figured, no description of it as yet appears to 
have been made.! See PI. V, fig. 7, a. 
Moth.—Antennze pale tawny. Palpi tawny, paler on their 
inper sides, shaded with fuscous externally. Head tawny, 
shaded with reddish fuscous above. Thorax blackish. Fore 
wings tawny with a blackish patch towards the centre of their 
lower surfaces and a small crescent-shaped mark on the outside 
of these. Outer edges also blackish. Hind wings brownish 
fuscous. Abdomen greyish with a slight ochreous tinge, a 
black tuft above the anal segments. Hind legs bone-grey with 
the tufts on the tibia strongly irridescent dark purplish on the 
upper sides, 
In the ¢ the tufts of hair present, in the ¢ are absent. In 
the hind wings little sign of the pouch-like fold in the neigh- 
bourhood of the abdominal margin can be seen. The fore wings 
are reddish-tawny. It will probably be found that there is some 
variation in the ground colour of these moths. Expanse of 
wings ¢ 18 millim, 2 17 millim. Pl. V, fig. 7, shows, J, the pupal 
case protruding from the bean and ¢, d, the ¢ and @ moths, 
Life History. 
Little is known about this insect. The larvze were found in 
the cold weather feeding in pods of Cassia Fistula, L. and C. 
occidentalis, L. They changed into the pupal state inside the pods, 
1This moth was bred from C. Fistula podsinthe Museum in Calcutta 
in 1894, and from C. occidentalis pods also from Calcutta in 1895. The 
insect was named by Lord Walsingham, both genus and species proving 
new to science, 
