﻿PROCEKDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FOURTH 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  MEETING 
  251 
  

  

  broodlac 
  sticks. 
  The 
  latter 
  were 
  far 
  in 
  excess 
  of 
  the 
  former. 
  Both 
  

   affect 
  the 
  gravid 
  females 
  and 
  destroy 
  them. 
  Eublemma 
  amabilis 
  cater- 
  

   pillars 
  work 
  from 
  the 
  side 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  from 
  the 
  top 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  resinous 
  

   cells 
  enclosing 
  lac 
  females 
  on 
  the 
  branches. 
  Anatrachyntis 
  falcatella 
  

   caterpillars 
  prefer 
  to 
  work 
  mostly 
  from^ 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  resinous 
  cells. 
  

   The 
  caterpillar 
  gnaws 
  a 
  hole 
  at 
  the 
  side 
  of 
  a 
  resinous 
  cell 
  and 
  penetrates 
  

   into 
  the 
  resinous 
  incrustation. 
  The 
  passage 
  of 
  Eublemma 
  caterpillars 
  

   could 
  be 
  easily 
  detected 
  by 
  following 
  the 
  tunnel 
  filled 
  with 
  flat, 
  oval, 
  

   discs 
  of 
  resin 
  mixed 
  with 
  body 
  juices 
  of 
  their 
  victims. 
  In 
  fome 
  cases 
  

   the 
  resinous 
  cells 
  are 
  completely 
  hollow 
  and 
  are 
  filled 
  with 
  dark 
  crimson, 
  

   flat, 
  ovalish 
  discs. 
  The 
  cocoon 
  of 
  the 
  caterpillar 
  consists 
  of 
  whitish 
  

   silken 
  threads 
  glued 
  together 
  with 
  deep 
  crimson, 
  flat 
  oval 
  discs. 
  Prior 
  

   to 
  pupation 
  the 
  Eublemma 
  caterpillar 
  makes 
  a 
  hole 
  of 
  exit, 
  closes 
  it 
  up 
  

   with 
  whitish 
  silken 
  threads 
  and 
  pupates 
  immediately 
  below 
  it. 
  

  

  The 
  Anatrachyntis 
  falcatella 
  caterpillars 
  also 
  make 
  their 
  way 
  inside 
  

   the 
  resinous 
  intrustation 
  by 
  gnawing 
  bits 
  of 
  resin 
  and 
  then 
  attacking 
  

   the 
  females. 
  The 
  bits 
  of 
  frass 
  left 
  by 
  these 
  caterpillars 
  in 
  the 
  tunnels 
  

   made 
  by 
  them 
  are 
  different 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  Eublemma 
  caterpillars. 
  

   In 
  this 
  case 
  the 
  granules 
  of 
  resin 
  are 
  small 
  and 
  round, 
  quite 
  unlike 
  those 
  

   of 
  Eublemma 
  caterpillars. 
  Both 
  resinous 
  and 
  other 
  granules 
  consisting 
  

   of 
  chitin, 
  dye 
  and 
  other 
  visceral 
  portions 
  from 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  lac 
  

   females 
  lie 
  about 
  the 
  tunnels 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  caterpillars. 
  

  

  The 
  full-fed 
  caterpillar 
  is 
  light 
  crimson 
  of 
  much 
  the 
  same 
  colour 
  

   as 
  the 
  lac 
  females, 
  and 
  as 
  such 
  is 
  quite 
  distinct 
  from 
  Eublemma 
  cater- 
  

   pillars 
  which 
  are 
  white 
  or 
  whitish 
  crimson. 
  It 
  is 
  5-75 
  Jiim. 
  long, 
  and 
  

   a 
  little 
  over 
  1 
  mm. 
  broad. 
  It 
  is 
  light 
  to 
  bright 
  pinkish 
  in 
  colour 
  on 
  

   account 
  of 
  its 
  meal 
  of 
  the 
  lac 
  females. 
  The 
  head 
  is 
  jet 
  black, 
  with 
  small 
  

   whitish 
  porrect 
  hairs. 
  The 
  mandibles 
  are 
  jet 
  black 
  in 
  keeping 
  with 
  

   the 
  general 
  colour 
  of 
  the 
  head, 
  and 
  are 
  powerful. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  shiny 
  black 
  

   thoracic 
  shield 
  with 
  an 
  obsolete 
  indentation 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  The 
  meso 
  

   and 
  meta-thoracic 
  segments 
  are 
  concolorous 
  with 
  the 
  abdominal 
  seg- 
  

   ments 
  which 
  are 
  light 
  pinkish 
  with 
  white 
  setse 
  on 
  them. 
  The 
  anal 
  

   and 
  the 
  penultimate 
  segments 
  have 
  a 
  chitinous 
  shield 
  of 
  a 
  light 
  fuscous 
  

   brown 
  colour 
  with 
  whitish 
  hair 
  pointing 
  caudad. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  fine 
  trans- 
  

   parent, 
  longitudinal 
  line 
  from 
  the 
  first 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  to 
  the 
  anal 
  

   end 
  through 
  which 
  the 
  pulsation 
  of 
  the 
  heart 
  could 
  be 
  seen 
  under 
  high 
  

   magnification. 
  (Plate 
  XLIV, 
  fig. 
  a). 
  

  

  From 
  what 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  observe 
  hitherto, 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  

   the 
  caterpillar 
  in 
  its 
  attempts 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  dead 
  and 
  dry 
  female 
  lac 
  

   cells 
  bites 
  its 
  way 
  through 
  the 
  living 
  female 
  cells 
  as 
  well 
  and 
  thereby 
  

   causes 
  death. 
  In 
  one 
  case, 
  a 
  caterpillar 
  was 
  seen 
  to 
  enter 
  the 
  resinous 
  

   incrustation 
  on 
  a 
  Shorea 
  talura 
  stick 
  from 
  the 
  side 
  and 
  within 
  three 
  

  

  