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MYRMECOZELA ? CORTICINA, MEYR. 
Amydria ? corticina, Meyr., M.S. 
This species was reared at Pusa on 19th March 1914 from a larva found 
horing into bark of banyan (Ficus bengalensis) on 26th January. The larva 
was described as slender with a black head and prothoracic shield and five 
pairs of prolegs, but, as a specimen of Latypica albofusciella was also reared, it 
is uncertain to which larva this description applies. (Pusa Insectary Cage- 
slip 1035.) : 
MACHAEROPTERIS HALISTREPTA, MEYR. : 
Macheropteris halistrepta, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 128-129 (1911)('). 
Described from Puttalam in Ceylon, Gooty in Madras, and the Konkan(?). 
We have it from Coimbatore, Hospet (Bellary) and Pusa. 
Larva in elongate, nearly flat, parallel-sided case (12x4 mm.), both 
ends rounded, composed of silk and grains of refuse, but entirely coated with 
silk outside('), 
It has been reared at Pusa from larve found in tubes. 
HYPOPHRICTIS INCEPTRIX, MEYR, (PLATE LV, FIG. i): 
Hypophrictis inceptrix, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 605 (June 1916)(1), ¢d., L.c., IL 
"85 (1917)(2). 
Described from Ceylon (Haputale) and Karwar in North Kanara(!). 
Moths were also taken at Pusa in September 1908 and October 1911. 
“Larva found in nests of Cremastogaster (Formicidee) at Ambalangoda, 
Ceylon, and imago bred in December at Pusa; in a singular nearly Auiieace 
composed (apparently) of two dark grey sections of stout silk joined together 
round the edges, shaped somewhat between an ellipse and an hour-glass, or 
like two coalescing circles, length 15 mm., greatest width 8 mm., contracted 
in middle to 6 mm. ; pupa protruded from end in emergence ”’(2), 
HYPOPHPICTIS(?) PLANA, MEYR, HS 
.. Brot. Ma. TT 35 (Dee. igw) 
This species has been reared at Pusa from alarva found ona mango-trunk 
on 28th June 1906. The larva was described as about 12 mm. long, flat, 
tapering towards either extremity but more so posteriorly, segments well 
defined, pale yellowish-white ; head flat, black, shiny, smaller than prothorax ; 
prothorax and mesothorax wholly covered by a black shield ; five pairs of 
minute prolegs. The larva lives in a flat 8-shaped case consisting of two thin 
8-shaped parchment-like pieces attached to each other permanently by means 
of silk at the constrictions and coinciding along their margins. On the outside 
