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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



rapidly decreasing in length towards apex, which is simple ; of female 

 shortly ciliated. 



Tientsin. Types (male and female) in coll. L. B. Prout ; one 

 male, one female in coll. Brit. Mus. 



I refer this species provisionally to Stegania, with which it so 

 well agrees in its general facies, but it is aberrant in having 

 veins 10 and 11 long-stalked instead of coincident throughout 

 (or " 10 absent," as it is generally expressed). It is also slightly 

 more robust, abdomen somewhat longer, palpi stronger. 



NOTES ON CARADRINA (LAPHYGMA) EXIGUA. 

 By G. F. Kawlings. 



My first meeting with this beautiful little moth was on May 

 30th, 1906, when I took a very fine male in perfect condition. 

 I saw no more until August 9th, after which date I took some 

 practically every night for a month, taking the last specimen on 

 September 9th. 



My best night was fourteen, total captures fifty-two ; but I 

 saw several others during the month, which escaped. 



They were very strong on the wing and very lively. Even on 

 roughish nights when other insects were few, they soared about 

 as though revelling in the wind. I have also noticed this with 

 ambigua. 



The moths were fairly regular in their arrival, the first 

 generally arriving about 11 p.m., then at 12.30 and at 2 a.m., 

 the last lot, as a rule, the largest in numbers. Nearly all the 

 males have a beautiful process composed of very fine hairs 

 radiating from a stalk attached to the thorax just between the 

 front pair of legs and protruding forward, sometimes beyond the 

 head ; it looks like very fine thistle-down. 



Though I had about a dozen batches of ova, and must have 

 hatched over a thousand larvae, I did not succeed in pupating 

 any. Most of them died ofi* when apparently full-grown, though 

 some died at an earlier stage. 



The disease started with some larvae of Phalera (Pygcera) 

 hucephala I was trying to rear for experimental purposes, and 

 though my larvae were divided up very much, I lost all that I had. 



The first ova were deposited on August 11th by a female 

 captured on the 9th. They were deposited in small batches with 

 here and there a few odd ones. In shape they reminded me of 

 a sea urchin with longitudinal lines. 



When fresh they look like small pearls, having the beautiful 

 pearly lustre so conspicuous on the hind wings of the imago. 

 About the fifth day they were grey, black on the sixth, and the 

 larvae hatched on the seventh. 



