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field, very slight at home.” Speaking of the same individual Mrs. 
Longstaff said: “ Slight (?) ginger.” 
The lights of the hotel attracted the following moths: the 
Geometer Dirades tJieclata , Guen., and the Crambids Schoenobius 
adjurellus , Walk., and bipundifer, Walk.; also the Chafer Schizonycha 
ruficollis , Fabr., and another beetle, Coptodera sp. 
Two specimens of the Arctiid, Amsada lineola ,* Fabr. (one of 
them crippled) were found by Mrs. Longstaff on rocks close to the 
sea. 
The pale-banded Vespa cinda, Fabr., made its debut at Mt. 
Lavinia. It is an insect with which I became very familiar later on; 
the Ceylon specimens are smaller and paler than those found in India. 
A female of the Carpenter-bee, Xylocopa fenestrata , Fabr., occurred 
on the shore, as well as the very large, violet-black X. tenuiscapa , 
Westw.; the Honey-bee of the country appeared to be Apis indica , 
Fabr. A spotted-winged Dacus was the only Fly that interested me 
sufficiently to involve its capture. 
The red, black-spotted, Lygaeid bug, Dysdercus cingulatus , Fabr., 
was netted when flying along a road; another Lygaeid, large, black 
with scarlet margins, Melamphaeus fulvo-marginatus, Dohrn, 2 occurred 
in the Cinnamon Gardens ; a less brilliant member of the same family, 
Aphanus sordidus, Fabr., was found under bricks. The phytophagous 
Beetle, Eoplosoma ceylonensis , Jae., might be taken either on the 
wing or by sweeping. Idaethina orientalis, Nietn., was to be found 
in the flowers of a species of Convolvulus in the Cinnamon Gardens, 
also at Kalutara in the enormous yellow and maroon-coloured flowers 
of a Thespesia . A number of the dull Opatrum contraliens, Walk., 
were found under a log on the shore. At Kalutara I also took the 
cosmopolitan Pyrale Zinckenia fascialis, Cram., and the Lamellicorn 
beetle Singhala hindu, Heller. 
A few as yet unnamed Dragon-flies and Acridians close the list. 
Kandy, 1500 ft. 
January 14th—March 2nd, 1908. 
The train in its beautiful climb from Colombo to Kandy certainly 
takes the traveller into a more agreeable climate ; though sometimes, 
may be, a bit steamy, the temperature was but 75° F., as against 82° F. 
1 Moore calls this Creatonotus emittens, Walk., so does Hampson in his “ Moths 
of India,” hut in his “ Lepidoptera Phalaenae,” vol. iii., p. 824, he gives it the 
Fabrician name. My specimens were of the southern form, Aloa flora, Swinhoe. 
2 Probably named from a specimen in which scarlet had faded to fulvous. 
