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LIFE-HISTORIES OF INDIAN INSECTS. 
MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
IV. COSMOPTERYGIDA, GECOPHORIDA, PHYSOPTILIDZE, 
XYLORYCTIDA, STENOMIDA AND ORNEODIDA. 
BY 
T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER, R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.8., 
Imperial Entomologist. 
(Received for publication on 27th June 1919.) } 
METACHANDID. 
This family is typical of the Mascarene area, one species (Metachunda 
crocozona, Meyr.) being recorded from Assam and a few others from South 
Africa. Nothing seems to be known of the early stages of this group. 
COSMOPTERYGIDA. 
ANATRACHYNTIS SIMPLEX, WLSM,~ ; 
Pyroderces simplex, Wlsm., T. E. S., 1891, 119-120, t. 6, f. 58 (1): Durrant, 
Bull. Ent. Res., ITT, 206-207, f. 2 (1912) (9); Lambom, l.¢.; V, 201 
(1914) (8); Willcocks, Ins. Pests Egypt, I, i, 317-320, t. 7, ff. 7-9 (1916(32). 
Batrachedra corvacella, Snellen, Tijds. v. Ent., XLIV, 95, t. 6, f. 7 (1901)(4). 
Stagmatophora gossyprella, Wism., A. M. N. H. (7), XVIII, 178-179 (1906(5) ; 
Morstatt, Pflanzer, VIII, 253 (1912)(). 
Stagmatophora coriacella, Lefroy, Ind. Ins, Life, p. 536 (1909)(7); Meyr.. 
T. E. S., 1910, 372(8). 
Pyroderces corvacella, Fletcher, 8. Ind. Ins., pp. 458-459, f. 334 (1914)(9) ; 
Meyr., Entom. Mitteil. Suppl., HI, p. 52 (1914)(29). 
Anatrachyntis coriacella, Meyr., Exot. Mier., I, 325 (1915)(4). 
Anatrachyntis simplex, Fletcher, Proc, Second Entl. Meeting, p.» 114 (1917 )(?2), 
Troe Wah GA aeherg Totay (May. 1920 ) 
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