200 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



disturbed, difficult to capture. The colours, though so varied, match 

 the bare earth very well when it is settled with wings outspread. 



Fam. Ophiuerid.e. 

 Ophiodes tirhaca, Cram. — One, at light on board, 22nd October, 1898. 

 Eligma narcissus, Cram. — One specimen only, in Leu-tung-tao ; 

 found drying its wings on 12th November, 1898. The examples in the 

 National Collection appear to have been captured earlier m the year, 

 between June and August, so possibly this belongs to, at any rate a 

 partial, second brood. 



Fam. Lagopterid.e. 

 Layoptera jiino, Dalman. — Common at the beginning of September. 



GEOMETRZE. 

 Fam. Id^id^. 

 Craspedia kaschmirensis, Moore. Common in May. 



Fam. AciDALiiD^. 



Timandra amataria, L. — One specimen, at light on board, 29tli 

 September, 1898. 



PYRALES. 

 Fam. Pyralidid;e. 



Cledeobia homhycaUs, Schiff. — Two specimens, at the eastern end of 

 Leu-kung-tao ; one on 28th May, 1898, the other on 24th May, 1899; 

 it flies rapidly in the hot sunshine, and has a jerky flight. This seems 

 a well-marked local race, if not a new species. The bombycalis in the 

 National Collection are from Sarepta, Austria, and Buda. My speci- 

 mens are much darker. The central portion of the fore-wings between 

 the light transverse fascial is dark, and not light, yellowish-brown. 

 The discoidal spot is also almost obsolete (quite obsolete in one), 

 whereas in the type it is very prominent. The base of the hind-wings 

 inside the yellowish fascia is in bombycalis quite light, but in the Wei- 

 hai-wei specimens as dark as the outside portion. For this darker 

 variety I propose the name cJdntmsis. 



Aqlossa pintjuinalis, L. — One specimen, at light on board, 18th 

 July,' 1898. 



Xomophila noctueUa, Schiff, — Common in May and again in October. 

 The depth of ground-colour is very variable, and this is doubtless of 

 use to the species, as it is in the habit of settling on the bare earth. 

 It is noticeable that Spirania simplicior (ante, p. 199), which has much 

 the same habits, also varies very greatly in depth of ground-colour, 

 from grey to black. 



Fam. Hydrocampid^, 



Xymphula fengwhanalis, Pryer, — One specimen, at Chifu, in Sep- 

 tember, 1898,' 



H.M.S. 'Gladiator,' Mediterranean. 



