350 Drs. Dixey and Longstaff’s Observations 
Aphnxus erikssoni, Trim. In the same garden were taken 
the steely-blue-winged wasp, Discolia ebenina, Sauss., four 
males and a female; also another somewhat fly-like wasp, 
the handsome black and yellow Bembex capicola, Handl., a 
male—only the second specimen known to Col. C. T, 
Bingham, the type being at Vienna. 
The electric lights of the hotel attracted a considerable 
number of insects, but they were for the most part small 
and insignificant in appearance :— 
NOctTUINA. 
Xanthoptera opella, Swinh. (8), a common Indian species. 
Homoptera scandatula, Feld. (1), a Catocalid, 
Homoptera ? n. sp. (1). 
Arcyophora tu. sp. (1). An Acontiad not in the British 
Museum. 
Entelia polychorda, Hmpsn. (1), a variable Quadrifid. 
Metachrostis (Ozarba) snelleni, Wallgr., a very small 
Quadrifid. 
GEOMETRINA. 
Comibena leucospilata, Walk. (1). A pretty emerald. 
PYRALINA. 
Argyractis, sp. (2). 
Stemmatophora chloralis, Hmpsn., n. sp. (5). A very 
distinct and pretty little insect, whitish-green with 
black central band. [Its description will shortly be 
published. ] 
Parthenodes scotalis, Hmpsn., nu. sp. (5). A somewhat 
dingy Hydrocampid. See Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 
1906, p. 470. 
Platytes, n. sp. (5). A beautiful Crambid which Sir 
George F. Hampson has kindly promised to describe. 
Microthrix insulsella, Rag, (2). A dingy Phycid. 
Hivella zinckenella, Treit. (1). An almost cosmopolitan 
Phycid. 
Several other small moths not yet determined. 
NEUROPTERA. 
Halter ? glaumrigi, Koll. Three specimens of this very 
singular insect came to the lamps. Its very long, 
slender and spirally twisted hind-wings make it more 
like a flying machine than an insect. 
