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amabilis, but the two predators could be distinguished readily from 
their method of affecting the resinous cells containing gravid females. 
In the four consignments of broodlac received from Bangalore the 
number of Anatrachyntis falcatella was far in excess of Hublemma ama- 
bilis and it is fortunate that it is so. Hublemma amabilis is a serious 
pest in Northern India, and it will require patience and perseverence 
to limit the ravages of this serious pest. In some places I have seen 
it so bad, that the crop is extremely poor and the emergence of larvee 
is late and poor. The pest has remained unchecked so long, that the 
depredations committed by it have resulted in unsettling the market 
and causing unwarranted fluctuations. The lac-growers and the manu- 
facturers, who are not entomologists, cannot understand the situa- 
tion. They generally ascribe the poorness of the crop to climatic and 
such other conditions. No doubt these are important factors and 
cannot be easily overlooked, but the state of affairs now warrants a 
critical study of the parasites and predators which bring about such 
a state of affairs. When such a study is undertaken it will be found 
that the parasites and the predators of the lac insect are factors not 
to be overlooked in any scheme of expansion of the industry. When 
this stage will be reached, I think further steps will be taken to obtain 
accurate data regarding distribution and damage brought about by 
each predator. It will then, I think, be necessary to restrict the dis- 
tribution of each predator within its own sphere of its activity. Hublemma 
amabilis, so far as I have been able to consult the literature, and so far 
as my own experience goes, is mostly destructive to Lac in Northern 
India. By this I do not wish to create a false impression that it does 
not occur in South India. From occasional consignments received 
from Southern India, as well as those from Banganapalle, it is apparent 
that Eublemma amabilis does occur there but not to such an extent 
as it occurs in the North. Anatrachyntis falcatella has not been reported 
damaging lac from Northern India. There is only one record and that 
too from Pusa, on the 22nd July 1913. Thereafter no moth has been 
either captured or reared from broodlac either on Ber or Palas at Pusa. 
In the Pusa collection the majority of the specimens have been from 
cotton either from buds, dry shoots affected either by the Bollworms, 
Earias fabia, E. insulana, Alcides leopardus, Phycita infusella, Phena- 
coccus hirsutus or Ph. corymbatus. It has been reared at Kandy (Ceylon) 
trom larva in resinous masses of lac coccis, Tachardia albizzie. (Bombay 
Journal, XVI, 607 ; 1905). 
In the specimens of broodlac on Shorea talura from Bangalore hitherto 
examined by me both the predators, Hublemma amabilis and Anatra- 
chyntis fulcatella, have been found working side by side on the same 
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