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after mountain up to an altitude of 10,000 or 12,000 ft. is clothed 

 with a dense forest of luxuriant vegetation embracing all the 

 phanerogamic zones upon the earth, while above the whole tower 

 the great snow peaks 20,000 to 29,000 ft. in height. An array 

 of these giants stretches away as far as the eye can reach in a 

 line 150 miles in length, presenting without doubt the most 

 magnificent, imposing, and awe-inspiring spectacle of the kind 

 in the world. 



I must, however, hasten to close this brief epistle, for it is 

 time to be up and doing once again. The sun is already shining 

 on the topmost peaks of Everest, Kinchinjanga and Co., and the 

 elegant Teinopalpus im.perialis will shortly be flitting around the 

 bushes of Daphne nepalensis now bursting into bloom in the 

 elevated forests of Ghoomphar, Eungaroon, and Sonada. The 

 needful apparatus being ready, the order to start is given, and I 

 am off once more to be among the handsome insects which con- 

 stitute the primary object of the present expedition. 



BRITISH HYDROCAMPIN^ AND SCOPARIA.N^. 



In Part II. of the ' Transactions of the Entomological Society 

 of London,' published in July last, there is a paper by Sir George 

 F. Hampson " On the Classification of two Subfamilies of Moths 

 of the Family Pyralidae : the Hydrocampinae and Scopariange." 



The British species referred to these two groups were placed 

 by Meyrick in his Pyraustidse, and are as follows : — 



1. Eurrhypara urticalis, Linn., Meyrick. 



2. Botjjs hijaUnalis, Hiibn. {Psamotis hijalinalis, Meyrick). 



3. Psamotis yulveraUs, Hiibn., Meyrick. 



4. Perinephele lancealis, Schiff., Meyrick. 



5. Stenia punctalis, Schiff., Meyrick. 



6. Cataclysta lemnata, Linn., Meyrick. 



7. Paraponyx stratiotata, Linn. {Nymphida stratiotata, Mey- 

 rick). 



8. Hydrocampa nymplueata, Linn., INIeyrick. 



9. Hydrocampa stagnata, Don. (Nymphida stagnata, Meyrick). 

 10. Scop>aria (12 species). 



In the system under consideration Hydrocampa, Latr., and 

 Paraponyx, Hiibn., are merged in Nymphida, Schrank, which is 

 the fifth genus of the forty-nine genera referred to the Hydro- 

 campinae, and has fifty-three species assigned to it. Of these, 

 stagnata is No. 2 ; nymphceata No. 3, and type of the genus ; 

 stratiotata No. 26. 



Cataclysta, Hiibn., is the seventh genus, with lemnata, its 



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