EXTOMOLOGY. -107 



TErxoPALPUs iMPERiAi.is, Hoiju. Hills over 9000. 



Calinaga EuDimA, Mooro. 



The above is a goodly list of Lejiidoptera, inhabiting Burma and the adjoining 

 countries. It is true that as yet the uuijonty of them are unrecorded from any 

 Burmese ' habitat,' but then Burma lias not yet been worked as Benpil has, and 

 there can be no reasonable doubt that insects which range from Daijiling to Java 

 occur in Burma likewise. Equally certain is it that numberless species, only as 

 yet recorded from Sikkim, will i-angc into Arrakan and Pegu, whilst other species 

 hitherto recorded fiom Java or Borneo will bo found to range into Tenasserim as 

 well. E.xcluding ilartaban and Tenasserim, Burma is still an almost untrodden 

 field Entomologically. 



Little need bo said touching the capture of the diurnal species, but it may be 

 added that an excellent plan for capturing the nocturnal moths is to smear trees about 

 one's house, towards evening, with a mixture of beer and sugar, wliich will attract 

 the moths to it. It shoidd also be remembered that each species has its own proper 

 time of jiijivg, and that the same species will not be ca])tured between 8 and 10 p.m. 

 and 10 and 12, and so on. Separate days should therefore be given to different 

 hours of the night, if a thorough exploration of the Lepidopterous fauna of a 

 district be atten]i)tcd, and this pursuit of the perfect insect sliould not supersede 

 the study of the life history of each species, as displayed in its progress from the 

 egg, tlirough the caterpillar to the perfect insect. 



Order COLEOBTERA. 



Wings four, the anterior pair {elytra) hard and closing over the back by a 

 straight suture. The posterior pair in repose folded beneath and protected by the 

 elytra. Mouth mandibulate. The females rarely apterous. 



A convenient division of the Families of Coleoptera is bai5cd on the number of 

 joints of the tarsi, though, as in most artificial arrangements, exceptions occur. 



Section TRIMERA. 

 Tarsi three-jointed. 



Sub-order APHIBIPHAGA. 

 Family Coccinellidse. 



The CoccincUidte or Lady-birds are a well-marked and familiar class of insects, 

 all of which are useful to man, by preying in l)oth their larval and adult stages on 

 tlie aphides or plant-lice which infest his gardens. 



Harmonia septempunctata, L. 

 Leis bicolor, Hope. 



,, 19 signata, Ealder. 

 Lemnia plagiata, Fabr. 



,, BIPLAGIATA, Swartz. 



,, (?) SEXAEEATA, Muls. 

 CoCCDfELLA, Sp. 



Epiiadena maculakis, Muls. 



Section TETRAMERA. 

 Tarsi four-joLntcd. 



Sub-order CLA VIFALPI. 



Last three joints of the antennte clavate. Maxillary palpi with the last joint 

 broadly transverse. 



Family Erotylidae. 

 Eatua, sp. 



