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March and April. (C.S. Misra’s Cage-slip dated 9th March 1916, and Ram 
Saran’s Cage-slip dated 15th April 1916.) 
ANCYLIS GLYCYPHAGA, MEYR. Je. es 
Ancylis glycyphaga, Mevr., Exot. Micr., I, 32 (1912)('). 
The larva, described from Pusa records, is subcylindrical, yellow, head 
flattened ; feeds on the sugary excretion of Phromnia marginella (Homoptera) ; 
pupa in a white cocoon('). 
In January 1910, a number of living nymphs of Phromnia marginella 
was received and with them a few leaves which were covered with a thick, 
hard, dry crust of their sugary excretion. All of these were placed on a living 
ber (Zizyphus jujuba) plant and covered with a field-cage and later on these 
caterpillars were found in a hibernating condition inside their cocoons ; as 
all the caterpillars were found in the midst of the sugary excretion, which 
bore marks of having been nibbled, it was supposed that they had fed upon it. 
One of the caterpillars was parasitized by a dipterous grub which emerged 
from its host’s pupa and then pupated inside the cocoon alongside this pupa. 
The full-grown larva is about 15 mm. long, sub-cylindrical, segments 
distinct, integument soft, yellow ; head shiny yellow, flattened ; prothoracic 
shield large, yellow; mesothoracic and metathoracic regions dark; body 
with sparse thin hairs ; prolegs equally developed. 
Pupation takes place in a white silken cocoon formed either in cracks 
in the crust of sugary Phromnia excretion on a leaf or on a leaf, preferably 
in a corner. 
Pupa about 8 mm. long, brown, with two transverse rows of minute 
backwardly-directed spines’on dorsal region of abdominal segments ; anal 
‘extremity rather blunt with several thin hairs with recurved tips around 
apex. The pupa emerges from the cocoon to some extent before the exit 
of the adult. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 821.) 
We also have this from Abbottabad. 
ANCYLIS CARPALIMA, MEYR, 
Ancylis carpalima, Meyr., P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., XXXVI, 244 (1911)(), 
Bad, wt, C6E4919)F)-— 
Common-in India-and-Ceylon,alse occurring in Queensland('). 
ANCYLIS LUTESCENS, MEYR. © 
Ancylis lutescens, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 32 (1912)('). 
The larva, as described from Pusa records, is cylindrical, tapering pos- 
teriorly, greenish, towards extremities yellowish, with short scattered whitish 
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