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these motlis must have come from oE the Lower Cochin China 

 coast, and, if no bad weather turned up, would reach the 

 various islands, or even Borneo, in fair numbers. 



" What surprised us most was the beautiful condition so 

 many of them (or, to be more exact, nearly all) were in, showing 

 that their long journey had had no ill effects upon them." 



Professor Poulton said that the species, of which a list is 

 given below, had been kindly named for him by Sir George 

 Hampson, and the " Plume " by Paymaster T. Bainbrigge 

 Fletcher. 



Schoenobius hipunctifera, Walk., 7 specimens. 



„ incertulas, Walk., 7 ,, 



Glyjyhodes celsalis, Walk., .1 ,, 

 Alucita niveodactyla, Pag., .1 ,, 



The specimens had unfortunately been attacked by " pests," 

 so that the majority were in bad condition. The small and 

 delicate white " Plume " had escaped this injury and was 

 beautifully preserved. 



The species named above possessed the following distribution 

 as shown by the serie.s in the British Museum. 



S. hipunctifera : — India, Ceylon, Assam, Burma, China 

 (including places so distant as Omei-shan and Chusan 

 Islands), Formosa, Singapore, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



aS^, incertulas : — India, Ceylon, Burma, Singapore, Borneo, 

 Java, Cassini Island (N.W. Australia). 



Glyphodes celsalis : — India, Ceylon, Assam, Burma, China 



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 (Central and Western), Japan, Singapore, Borneo, New 

 Guinea, Trobriand Islands. 



Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher had informed the speaker 

 that the Alucita extended from India to the Philippines and 

 the Solomon Islands, but had as yet been but little observed 

 in the Malay Archipelago. 



The wide area over which these species were at present 

 known to range and the absence of any marked local varia- 

 tion might with probability be explained by the power of 

 distribution in the manner detected by Mr. INluir and Mr. 

 Kershaw. 



Notes on the Life-history of Aulacodes slmplicialis. 



