2, BALNBRIGGE FLETCHER 95 
greenish-yellow ; head dark brown, shiny ; prothorax with dorsal dark brown 
shiny shield, ventrally dark brown; tubercles on segments minute black 
points emitting short grey hairs ; five pairs of prolegs. Pupation takes place 
in a white silken cocoon formed inside the larval shelter. Moths have been, 
bred in March and May. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slips 1054, 1180.) pst Nar. i920 
; 7 Nffirsr Pore 0 BAT mete“: ~ 
ANARSIA EXALLACTA, MEYR, MS. { | Yume x. omepls (a eye 
This species was reared at Pusa on 7th October 1912 from at larva found ee 
on top leaves of arhar (Cajanus indicus). 
ANARSIA IDIOPTILA, MEYR 
Aniarsia idioptila, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 582-583 (June 1916)('). 
Described from Pusa, where it was taken from Cassia fistula in June('). 
This species was reared from a larva found at Pusa on 8th June 1913, 
folding or binding together several leaves of Casssia fistula, living hidden and 
feeding on the leaves from within its shelter. The larva is about 7 mm. jong, 
flattened, light greenish-yellow with a broad brown subdorsal stripe ; head 
flattened, yellowish brown ; thoracic segments blackish; five pairs of prolegs. 
Pupation takes place within the larval shelter, the cremastral hooks of the 
pupa being fastened into a thin silken lining attached to one leaf. The pupa 
is about 4°5 mm. long and about 1:5 mm. broad across thoracic region, ¢ylindri= 
cal, tapering to a point anally, dark brown, shiny. The pupal period is about 
five days in June. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 996.) 
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ANARSIA MELANOPLECTA, MEYR. (PLATE XX, FIG. 3.) 
Anarsia melanoplecta, Meyr., B. J., XXII, 774 (1914)(') ; Fletcher, Ent. , 
Note 78 (1916)(2) ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 221 (1917)(*), ts, Rar ft BM. 
Larva boring in shoots of mango (Mangifera indica) in May at Pusa. : 
lenis 
This species is probably widely distributed, but overlooked. We have it 
from Pusa and Nagpur. At Pusa it has been found boring mango buds and 
twigs and feeding on mango inflorescence and at Nagpur it has been reared 
from mango flowers. Te aE 2 
The larva has been described as “ about 8 mm. long by | mm. in breadth ; 
cylindrical, the segments well defined, in colour yellow with a pinkish tinge, 
the anal segment darker. The head and prothorax slightly smaller than the 
metathorax which is the broadest part of the body. The head is shining 
black, the prothorax dark grey with a prominent black shiny shield divided 
medially by a fine line. Five pairs of equally developed prolegs are present.” 
‘The above larva was found at Pusa on 19th February 1912, boring the terminal 
shoot of a tender twig of mango. 
