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Emerald, Hemithea tritonaria, Walk., but Craspedia (Idaect) fibulata , 
Guen., and Idaea actuaria, Walk., were of very ordinary Acidaliid 
type. The usual crowd of Pyrales turned up: Nacoleia diemenalis, 
Guen., a widely distributed species (like our purpuralis), of which a 
specimen was found by day close to the hotel; W. lampiusalis, Walk.; 
Endotricha mesenterialis, Walk, (like a bright Jlammealis ); the uni¬ 
versally distributed Diasemia ramburialis, Dup., and Zinckenia fascialis, 
Cram.; the pretty white, pink-tipped Noorda fessalis, Swinh., also 
wide-ranging; Glyphodes celsalis, Walk.; Sylepta adductalis, Walk.; 
a finely marked S. iopasalis , Walk., which my servant brought me, 
had probably also been attracted by the hotel lights; the pretty 
Leucinodes orbonalis, Guen.; the creamy Pyrausta incolorcdis, Guen., 
a wide ranging insect; Pachyzancla phoeopteralis , Guen., which was 
commoner than any of the preceding; Hellula undalis, Eabr.; and 
the brick-red Bostra pallidicosta , Hmpsn., which passed muster as a 
Noctuid. The Crambids were represented by two or three Schoenobius 
bipunctifer , and quite a number of the more attractive Ancylolomia 
chrysographella, Koll. (taprobanensis, Moore); the Phycids I may 
say of course included Etiella zinckenella , Treits., but only one 
specimen ; with it were Epicrocis aegnusalis , Walk., and E. lateritialis , 
Walk. Not the least interesting of the visitors was the fine Tineid, 
Hapsifera seclusella , Walk., of which three females turned up. Less 
striking was the Gelechiid, Timyra irrorella , Wlsm. The tiny black 
and ochreous Zygaenid, Dendrocera quadripunctata , Hmpsn., was found 
in the hotel, but whether it had been attracted by light I cannot say. 
But besides Lepidoptera other insects, amongst which Beetles 
were the commonest, came to the hotel lights :—The tiny Lamellicorn 
Orphinus mysorensis, Westw.; Copris repertus, Walk., and C. signatus , 
Walk.; the formidable-looking Oryctes rhinoceros , Linn.; Ontho- 
phagus turbatus , Walk.; 0. dama, Eabr. ; Macrocheilus tripustulatus, 
Eabr.; the black Elater, Melanotus hirticornis, Herbst; Apogonia 
rauca , Eabr.; A. solida, Walk.; and a Coelolophus , represented in 
the British Museum from Ceylon, but unnamed. 
A Mole-cricket, Gryllotalpa sp., was among the less common 
visitors, also a male Dorylus orientalis , Westw. The black and yellow 
Wasp, Odynerusfistulosus , Sauss., had perhaps lost its way. There were 
two Bugs, the common green, very fetid Pentatomid, Plautia fimbriata, 
Eabr., and the black, orange-spotted Beduviid, Acanthaspis angularis, 
Stal, bearing a formidable recurved spine on its shoulders. One 
night a great number of Termites came; one of them confined in a 
pill-box was observed to have shed its wings within an hour and a 
half of its capture. 
