Reprinted from the Report of the Proceedings of the Fourth 
Entomological Meeting held at Pusa, 1921. 
32.— ANATRACHYNTIS FALCATELLA, STT. (PYRODERCES. 
SPODOCTHA, MEYR.). 
(Plate XLIV). 
By C. S. Misra, B.A., First Assistant to the Imperial Entomologist. 
Gracilaria falcatella, Stainton. T. E. 8. (n.s.) V, 121 (1859). 
Pyroderces spodochtha, Meyr. Bombay Journal, XVI, 607 
(1905). 
Anatrachyntis falcatella. Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 1917, 
p- 114. 
Anatrachyntis falcatella. Proc. Third Entl. Meeting, 1919, 
p. 149. 
Anatrachyntis falcatella, Meyr., Exotic Micro., I, 325, 1915. 
Anatrachyntis falcatella. Fletcher, Ind. Agric. Ent. Mem., VI, 
99 (Jan. 1921). 
The moth has hitherto been recorded as a rubbish feeder and has 
been recorded from :— 
Pusa....1913, 1914, 1916. From cotton, cotton buds, in cage 
containing Dactylopius sp., from Eublemma cage and on Lac. 
Calcutta. 
Shillong....October 1916.” 
Gobichettipalayam (Coimbatore District) on a rotten pomegranate. 
Kandy....Larva in resinous masses of lac coccid TYachardia 
albizzia. . 
Bangalore....January 1920. Larva in broodlac on Shorea talura. 
Last year when I began the study of the parasites and the predators 
of lac, my attention was drawn to a consignment of broodlac on Shorea 
talura received from Dr. Gilbert Fowler of the Indian Institute of Science, 
Bangalore. The first moth emerged on the 22nd September 1920 and 
a number of moths continued to emerge until the 24th October and 
for some time thereafter. Two other consignments were received 
subsequently and the number of moths that emerged from these was 
also large. The fourth consignment has been received only recently 
and from this too the moths have begun to come out. The large number 
of moths that emerged from the four consignments made it highly 
suspicious that the caterpillars were not altogether harmless, and from 
the observations that I have been able to make hitherto, it appears 
that the caterpillar feeds on the healthy lac females within resinous 
cells. The caterpillars occur in healthy broodlac alung with Bublemma 
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