T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER 99 
Our records have little to add to Mr. Willcocks’ description given above, 
The larvae sometimes bore into young unopened cotton leaves when they 
dry up under conditions of rearing. This moth has been reared at Pusa 
from dry cotton-bolls, cotton buds, bhindi (Hibiscus esculentus), rotten peach 
fruit, dry fallen gular (Ficus glomerata) fruit, rotten bamboo stalk, tur 
(Cajanus indicus) stem, dry pods of Vigna catjang and from wheat flour in 
company with Sitotroga cerealella ; at Coimbatore from cotton bolls and buds, 
castor, maize cobs and cholam (Andropogon Sorghum) ear-heads ; at Hagari 
from cholam ear-heads webbed up by larvee of Stenachroia elongella ; at Gobi- 
chettipalayam (Coimbatore District) from a rotten pomegranate fruit ; and 
at Chidambaram, Belgaum, Surat, Shibpore Farm (Calcutta), Ferozepur, 
Rohtak, Sialkote and Myingyan (Burma) from cotton bolls. From the above 
records it would appear that this insect is merely a rubbish-feeder on vegetable 
refuse and not a pest. 
ANATRACHYNTIS FALCATELLA, STT. 
Gracilaria ? falcatella, Stainton, T. E. 8. (n.s.), V, 121 (1859)(}). 
Pyroderces spodochtha, Meyr., B. J., XVI, 607 (1905)(?) ; Exot. Micr., I, 280 
(1914)(3), 
Anatrachyntis falcatella, Meyr., Exot. Micr., 1, 325 (1915)(4); Fletcher, Proc. pa 
Vj vac J 
Second Entl. Meeting, p. 114 (1917)(°), ea Ts d Eth meting Ling Nau lyse ps eae 
EAT. Nets Ph % 
Reared at Kandy from larva in resinous masses of Lac Coccid, Tachardia i te 
~25%) a5 < 
albizzie(2). The pupa is described as “unusually stout, entirely without _ 
spines; dehiscing by a longitudinal slit in head, not breaking up, antennal + lowe deootd) 
{ = ae 
cases fixed in pupal skin, abdominal segments apparently all fixed (7), wing- ™ nes 
AS uk J 
cases firmly attached and reaching to end of seventh segment ”’(8). 
Originally described from Calcutta(!); also recorded from Kandy(?). 
We have it from Shillong and Pusa. At Pusa it has been reared from larve 
on cotton shoots “in Eublemma cage” and “on Dactylopius on cotton ” 
The Pusa collection also contains a specimen, identified as falcatella by Mr. 
Meyrick and reared from a rotten pomegranate at Gobichettipalayam (Coim- 
batore District) ; but this specimen looks to me like A. simplex. 
The larva seems to be predaceous on Coccide, but has not been described. 
TRACHX DORA / 
ANAPTARACTES PLUMIGERA, MEYR. 
Anataractis plumigera, Meyr., Exot. Micr., 1, 565-566 (May 1916)(1) ; Fletcher, 
Entl. Note, 83 (June 1916)(?) ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 81 (1917)(%), Tas. Pe: he: 
Described from specimens bred at Pusa and Coimbatore from bred out. hk rl 
feeding in stems of Indigofera(}). Ba SRS Ee 
