152 LIFE*HISTORIES OF GRACILLARIADA 
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ACROCERCOPS BARRINGTONIELLA, DEV. 
Gracilaria barringtomella, van Deventer, Tijds. voor Ent., XLVII, 14-17, t.1, 
ff. 5, 5¢, 56 (1908)(!). 
Acrocercops barringtoniella, Meyr., B. J., XXIII, 121 (1914)(?). 
Originally described from Jaya('!). Within our limits recorded from 
North Kanara(?). 
Larva mines in young leaves of Barringtonia spicata(!) and also mines 
blotches im leaves of Careya arborea (Lecythidacee)(2). 
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ACROCERCOPS LYSIBATHRA, MEYR, [See oL1» 4. 210 } 
Acrocercops lysibathra, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 626-627 (1916)('). 
Originally described from Pusa, this species has been bred at Pusa from 
a larva mining “ bhagandhra”™ leaf. (A. Mujtaba’s Cage-slip 24.) 
It has also been reared from larvee collected at Pusa on 17th March 1916 
mining leaves of lasora (Cordia latifolia). The larva eats the upper epidermal 
tissue, the veins of the leaf being left untouched, and forms an irregular blister- 
like mine white around the margins and brown in the centre, as many as 
four larvee being present in a single leaf. The larva was described as 5 mm. 
long and about | mm. broad, slightly flattened, segments distinct, yellow with 
a greenish middorsal stripe on abdomimal segments; head small, flattened, 
brown ; thoracic segments broadest, prothorax brownish ; legs short, yellow ; 
only four pairs of prolegs, concolorous with the body. Pupation takes place 
outside of the mine. The moth is on the wing from March to May. (Ram 
Saran’s Cage-slip, dated 17th March 1916.) 
ACROCERCOPS PHRACTOPA, MEYR. 
Acrocercops phractopa, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 177 (1918)(4). 
“ Bred at Pusa in April from larvee mining blotches in leaves of Ficus 
infectoria ”’('). 
ACROCERCOPS GEOMETRA, MEYR. 
Acrocercops geometra, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 626 (1916)(*). 
Described from Pusa and Coimbatore(!), 
~~ Larva mining blotch in leaf of Cordia myxa (Boraginacew) (Fletcher)(!). 
This species was also bred at Coimbatore from larvee mining Cordia leaves. 
Larvee were found at Pusa on 11th July 1908, and were described as 
about 5 mm. long, flattened, tapering posteriorly, red, head very small and 
armed with a flat yellow cap, prothorax yellowish-red, legs creamy, prolegs 
red, The larva mines in the leaves of the foodplant and pupates externally 
