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way down, although it appears to be falKng to the earth. It 

 pupates in a few leaves spun together at the ends of the twigs ; 

 the pupa is covered with a fine bloom. Fourteen days are 

 passed in the pupal state. 



(10) Remigia feugalis, Fabr. 



Most abundant in May, and a few stragglers again in 

 September. It flies by day, and is not uncommon in the 

 grassy spaces, where the undergrowth is kept cleared. 



(11) Plusia chalyctes, Esp. 



The development of a garden on Pulu Tikus appeared to 

 be the cause of the abundance of this species; but since the 

 garden plants were introduced as seed, there appears but little 

 chance of their having been the agent for its introduction. It 

 swarmed in June 1906, and the green larva was abundant on 

 peas, tomatoes, and almost every plant that was grown in the 

 garden. The pupal stage lasts only a week. 



(12) Hypena strigata, Fabr. 

 One example only taken. 



(13) Cateptria, sp. 



This is a handsome insect, boldly marked with black and 

 white. It appears on the wing in September. The larva feeds 

 on the leaves of Femphis acidula, in company with Ophiusa 

 melicerta, to which larvse it bears a considerable rough re- 

 semblance. It is mottled grey on the back, and the belly is 

 velvety black ; at the anal extremity is an upwardly directed 

 tubercle with a bifid tip. A collar of magenta colour surrounds 

 the larva behind the head, but in all ordinary attitudes this is 

 hidden by a skin-fold. It pupates among the little leaves of 

 its food-plant ; the pupa has no bloom, and the pupal stage 

 lasts for twenty days. I never saw an example of the perfect 

 insect, save those that I reared from larvae ; and, so far as I 

 could find out, no one on the island was acquainted with the 

 moth. The larvas were by no means uncommon on a few 



