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but one cach was secured, though there were plenty about. Of 
Prenes nyctelius, Latr., 1 took two; of Heliopetes laviana, Hew., 
three; of /lesperia syrichthus, Fabr., two; of Gorgythion begga, 
Prittw., three. Of all the following there were but single examples 
in my bag :—Cycloglypha thrasybulus, Fabr.; Chiomara gesta, H.-S. ;— 
the three species last named all curve the fore-wings downwards, like 
our Thanaos tages, Linn.—the conspicuous black and red Pyrrhopyge 
charybdis, Dbl. and H.; Mylon zephus, Butl.; Cogia calchas, H.-S. ; 
Epeus veleda, Godm. and 8.; Mnestheus ithoria, Butl.; Pellicia, sp. 
prop. bromio, Mab. ; P. dimidiata, Ploetz ; Metron leucogaster, Butl. ; 
Megistias telata, H.-S.; Methionopsis ina, Ploetz; Thymelicus dares, 
Ploetz ; and Miconindes merenda, Mab. But the most attractive of the 
group was Carystus coryna, Hew., with its brilliant “ silver-washed ” 
under-side ; the only specimen seen—just where the upper water- 
course leaves the stream—was settled upon a mass of silvery-white 
shale, which shone in the sunlight with the same metallic lustre as the 
Butterfly: Possibly the result of mere chance, this is certainly the 
most remarkable instance of cryptic colouring that I have met with. 
A few day-flying moths taken in the same locality must be men- 
tioned; single specimens occurred of each. The Arctia-like Syntomid 
Ctenucha venosa, Walk., at the flowers of a white composite; the 
black Geometer with white transverse bar across the fore-wings 
Ephialtias tryma, Schaus; and the black, orange-tipped Geometer 
Josiomorpha cruciata, Butl., which proved tenacious of life. These, 
with a very elegant Agrionine Dragon-fly having earmine patches at the 
base of the wings (near to Agrion brightwelli, Kirby, and caja, Dru.), 
complete my list of captures in the best locality that it has been my 
good fortune to visit. 
The arc-light in the patio of the (not very) Grand Hotel proved 
extremely attractive to big moths as well as to numerous large 
Locustids. 
Syntomids :—Obosmosoma teuthras, Walk., one; Eucereon setosum, 
Sepp, two. 
Arctiids :— Bertholdia specularis, H.-S., a beautiful insect, one; 
Ammalo insulata, Walk., two; Utetheisa ornatrix, Linn., one ; Ecpan- 
theria muzina, Oberth., one. 
Sphingid :—Dilophonota ello, Linn., three. 
Noctuids:—The Boarmid-like Synia hypnosis, Hiibn., one; the 
huge and variable Erebus odorus, Linn., quite common, ten; £. 
zenobia, Fabr., one; and the Quadrifid Yellow Under-wing Hypocala 
Jjilicornis, Guen., one. To these must be added the Boarmid Geo- 
meter Oxydia verulia, Cram. 
