100 LIFE-HISTORIES OF COSMOPTERYGIDZ 
“ Anataractis plumigera, Meyr., reared from pupa in stem of Indigo at 
Pusa, 4 May, 1912 (C. No. 945). The stem was swollen into a gall and evidently 
the larva had fed inside the stem ”’(?). 
“ Anataractis plumigera was reared from a gall in a stem of Indigofera 
linifolia at Pusa, but we have not noticed it in any cultivated indigo “(°). 
We have this from Pusa and Chapra. 
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PYRODERCES ALBILINEELLA, VAN DEVENTER. 
46 pe Gore har ee Dieodareds albilineella, Dev., Tijds. voor Ent., 1904, 33-34, t. 2, f. 5(4); 
juakes T-590\NT Meyrick, Exot. Micr., I, 310 (1915)2), Le. 1, 566 (1916)(). 
Originally described from Java(}). Since recorded from the Kei Islands 
and Ceylon(2). 
Bred in April at Coimbatore from larva boring in pods of Cassia corymbosa, 
Pupa rather stout, all segments fixed except anal(°). 
It has also been reared at Coimbatore from larvee in indigo pods and we 
have it from Virajpet (South Coorg). 
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PYRODERCES SEMICOCCINEA, SsTT. 
Cosmopteryx ¢ semicoccinea, Stainton, T. E. 8. (n.s.), V, 123 (1859)(?). 
Pyroderces semicoccinea, Meyr., B. J., XIX, 411 (1909)(?), Exot. Mier., I, 310 
(1915) (8); atm, Pac. B ae busts j \ Wo (we. \gu ) 
Originally described from Calcutta(!) ; also recorded from Queensland(8). 
Reared at Pusa from stems of Cajanus indicus in company with P. 
promacha, various Phycitids, ete. It appears to be a rubbish-feeder. 
We have this from Pusa, the Shevaroys and Pollibetta (South Coorg). 
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PYRODERCES PROMACHA, MEYR. 
Pyroderces promacha, Meyr., Pr. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W., 1897, 351(1),. Entom. 
Mitteil. Suppl., IIL, p. 54 (1914)(2): Huma, Cac. © Cut. retry D150 (Nav. 1920} 
Originally described from New South Wales(!), and since recorded from 
Formosa(2) and India(?2). The Pusa collection contains specimens from 
Pusa, Coimbatore and Peshawar. 
It has been reared at Pusa from a tur (Cajanus indicus) stem and is also 
said to have been reared from a larva found mining Phaseolus mungo leaves 
at Pusa on 29th April 1907, the moth pupating on 5th May and emerging 
on llth May 1907. This larva was described as “2 mm. long, tapering 
posteriorly, orange-yellow ; head yellowish-brown, flattened ; thorax flattened : 
a green median line running from prothorax to anal segment and two brown 
spots on either side of this median line. When about to pupate it turned 
red and prepared a cocoon of white threads. Pupa emerged half-way out 
