380 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIII. 
enough to send me specimens of larve in spirit,a specimen branch showing 
the lac incrustations infected with the larve of LE, amabilis and a few 
specimens of the perfect insects. A summary of his remarks forms a fairly 
complete history of the insect. He informs me that there are two crops of 
lac in the Damoh District formed by the young larve of Tachardia lacca; 
the first brood swarming out in July and the second in November. The lac 
jn which the larve of E. amabilis were found, was that produced by the 
July brood. The lac incrustation of the first brood begins to appear early 
in August, and Mr, Witt first noticed the attacks on the 26th September, 
although the larve, from which the moths that he procured were formed, 
were collected in November. Lac is propagated on Zizyphus xylophyra 
(vernac : Ghaunt or Katber) and Butea frondosa (vernac: Chula) in Damoh, but 
the attacked incrustations were only found on the former tree, Mr, Witt, 
however, had had little opportunity of examining the other tree for it, 
The larva of E. amabilis is white and apparently unmarked, the head only 
being dark, It appears to feed upon the soft bodies of the lac larve, taking 
up its abode with them beneath their resinous coating, and forming a webbed 
covering connected with the outer air by a silk tube woven together with an 
admixture of reddish excreta, Whether the tube is formed just previous to 
pupation, asa tunnel of escape for the perfect insect, I am not aware; but 
it seems probable that this is so, asthe tubes attached to the specimen of 
incrustation sent me were all of the same size and were, therefore, presumably ~ 
formed by larve in the same stage of development, Mr, Witt was unable to 
inform me about the pupation, but I have found portions of pupa-shell inside 
the resinous coating, and just beneath the tubes referred to, The perfect 
insects sent are slightly darker than specimens of the same species which I 
took in Sikhim, their colouring is rather richer, and.their size slightly smaller, 
Eublemma amabilis is only recorded by Sir George Hampson from Ceylon, 
but, as it occurs in Sikhim and Damoh also, it would appear to have rather 
a wide distribution. 
G. C. DUDGHON, F, E. 8. 
PALAMPUR, PUNJAB, 
May, 1900. 
No, XVI.—OCCASIONAL NOTES ON BIRDS’ NESTING ROUND 
POONA AND ELSEWHERE. 
The undermentioned notes are sent in continuation of those which appeared 
in Part 4, Vol, XII of the Society’s Journal, 
Tue YELLOW-THROATED SPARROW, (Gymmnorhis flavicola), wherever found 
is breeding. It is not an easy matter to obtain eggs, for one never knows 
exactly when to open its nest ; as a rule, it builds in holes in trees ; the usual 
luck is to find that the bird either has not laid or has young. This is the 
case with all birds which nest ina similar manner, The nesting hole is 
not difficult to discover, as the cock generally takes up a position in close 
