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they did not seem to mind a certain amount of rain. It is surprising 
that so conspicuous an insect should not have been recorded before. 
(See Plate I., Pig. 2.) 
At rest upon a rock, looking just like a piece of lichen, was the 
Lithosiid Pamsiccia punctatissima , Pouj., while one afternoon I 
happened upon a fine freshly emerged specimen of Actias selene , Hiibn., 
sitting on a plant; a day or two later another came to the hotel lights 
during dinner. 
The handsome blue Cicada, Geana maculata, Fabr., was in abund¬ 
ance, flying slowly from tree to tree. 
On some nights the gas-lamps outside the Peak Hotel proved 
very attractive. The Arctiids were represented by one Utetheisa 
pulchella, Linn., and two males of the very variable Ermine, Diacrisia 
obliqua , Walk.; the Lymantriids by one Euproctis varians, Walk., 
and a female Aroa socrus, Geyer ( substrigosa , Walk.); the Limacods 
supplied a single Thosea sinensis , Walk.; there was also a solitary 
Nolid, Celama pumila, Snell. The Geometers on the other hand were 
somewhat more numerous, including Craspedia propinquaria , Leech, 
a small species resembling Eois bisetata, which came freely, and 
was also taken by day at rest on a leaf, and a single example of a 
somewhat larger insect with curiously formed hind-wings, Krananda 
latimarginaria, 1 Leech. 
Besides the larger insects there were two of the delicate creamy, 
black-dotted Pyrale, Entephria abdicalis , Walk., and one of the 
Crambid, Charltona hala, Swinh.; together with these were a 
number of females of a Phycid which does not seem to be the same 
as any in the British Museum, but which Sir George Hampson is 
unable to determine in the absence of any male specimen. 
An English lady, the wife of an officer of marines, who had spent 
some time in Hongkong, told us that somewhat remarkable theo¬ 
logical results may follow from the too common practice of leaving 
English children under the charge of Chinese nurses. 
Scene. —A Hongkong drawing-room. A precocious little girl 
discovered playing with toys in the centre of the stage, around are 
Papa, Mamma, and other ladies and gentlemen drinking tea. 
(A loud clap of thunder is heard without.) 
Child , looking up from its play: “ Big Topside man makee muchee 
tumtum; welly angly.” 
1 At first I described this as a new species in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 
(1905, p. 184) as Orsonoba orthogrammaria. There were extenuating circumstances 
tending to condone the error, but it is not necessary to detail them. 
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