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and legs armed with hairs, the veins of the wings alone being scaled, 

 and even these are long and narrow, approximating to hairs ; those of 

 the internal fringe being exceptionally long. The proboscis is very short, 

 darker than the rest of the body, very short, and bilobed. Palpi short and 

 slender, but longer than the proboscis ; antennas not banded. Thorax 

 indistinctly marked with a darker median line in front, tapering to 

 disappearance behind. Outside this are lines composed of minute 

 black dots formed by the roots of hairs, and external again to these, 

 and behind, two pear-shaped brown spots. These markings all pertain 

 to the ground colouring, and are not produced by tomentum. Wing 

 broad internally. Auxiliary vein joining the costa far out and beyond 

 the tip of anterior branch of fifth longitudinal. Fork-cells with their 

 bases opposite, and their stems nearly half as long as the branches of 

 the anterior fork, which is much longer and narrower than the pos- 

 terior ; supernumerary middle and posterior transverse veins of about 

 equal length, the two first in one open-angled line ; the last just 

 internal to the other two, and distinctly external to tip of sixth longi- 

 tudinal vein. Halteres white, with a round black dot on the end of 

 the knob. Legs rather short and stout, very hirsute, the first tarsal 

 joint barely half the length of the tibia, but longer than the second 

 tarsal ; uniformly pale straw-colour. Abdomen of the same tint as 

 the rest of the body, saving a few irregular brownish specks along 

 the sides. 



Shahjahanpur : Jan. 8th, 1901. 



A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF 

 WEI-HAI-WEI. 



By Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.E.S. 

 (Concluded from p. 174.) 



Fam. LiMAcoDiD^. 

 Parasa consocia, Walk. — Common at light in July. 



Fam. NoTODONTIDiE. 



Plmlera flavescens, Brem. — One specimen, at light on board, 22nd 

 July, 1898." 



Phalera fnscipennis, Butl. — Several, at light on board, 20th and 

 21st July, 1898. In repose, this species tucks in its head and imitates 

 a bit of dead stick, just like our own familiar P. bucephala. 



Centra vienciana, Moore. — A male and female, on mainland, 15th 

 May, 1899. Judging by the large number of empty cocoons on the 

 willows around Flagstaff Camp, this species must be fairly common. 

 The limpet-shaped eggs furnish rather a good example of protective 

 resemblance. Above, they are of a dull salmon colour, and would 

 evidently resemble small galls or patches of fungi, when viewed o)i the 

 leaf ; whilst below they are green, and so show very little when viewed 

 through the leaf. 



