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of Kandy, but on my second visit to Lady Horton’s Drive at 
about noon on a dull day the triangular form of the large pale 
fawn-coloured Yellow Underwing, Ophiusa indiscriminatei, Hmpsn. 
(discriminans, Moore, nec Walk.), caught my eye as it rested on a 
fern; later on I took two of the obscure Amyna punctum, Fabr. 
(selenampha , Guen.). On the hill above the Keservoir, at about 
2000 ft., I took a specimen of the striking yellow-underwinged 
Deltoid, Dichromia erosa , Guen. 
A specimen of the delicate green Glyphodes pomonalis , Guen., 
was unfortunately in poor condition. Close to the Keservoir I 
kicked up out of rank wet grass the well-named Phryganodes 
ohscurata, Moore, and higher up the hill the singular Filodes 
fulvidorsalis , Hiibn., with long antennae and long yellow body. A 
male of the Tineid, Timyra machlas, Meyrk., turned up in Lady 
Horton’s Drive. 
My solitary Plume, Mr. Bainbrigge Fletcher tells me, is Alucita 
candidalis, Walk. ( leucodactyla ). 
One hot day, on a bank above Lady Anderson’s Eoad, I saw an 
insect, which I took for a Bombylins , hovering at a flower; in the net 
it positively hummed, but on closer inspection I thought it might be 
a Skipper. However, it ultimately proved to be a Clear-wing, 
Melittia chalciformis , Fabr., a strange-looking creature with very 
hairy hind legs. 
The following were met with in various places in the immediate 
neighbourhood of Kandy, chiefly on Lady Horton’s Drive or there¬ 
abouts. 
Hymenoptera: Salius flavus , Fabr., a large black Wasp with 
legs, wings and antennae ferruginous; the tough-skinned Discolia 
leviceps } Smith ; the formidable Hornet, Vespa cincta , Fabr., occurred 
in many places, but most commonly about a large patch of Vernonia 
above the Keservoir ; it was not seen to catch anything, nor to feed 
on the flowers; it has a very faint hum, a pure low-pitched note free 
from any buzz. The Bees included a single specimen of Geratina sp.; 
the brilliant Podalirius zonatus, Linn., conspicuous by the metallic 
sky-blue bands on its abdomen, often to be seen hovering at the 
flowers of Vervain ( Stachytarpheta ); the Honey-bee of the country 
was evidently Apis indica, it was abundant; A. dorsata, Fabr., of 
which I took but one specimen, is a large bee with an orange 
waistband; Nomia ellioti , F. Smith, var., occurred at Vervain, with 
apparently another member of the genus; of the Carpenter-bees I 
met with three species, Xylocopa tenuiscapa, Westw., two females, 
X. nigro-coerulea , Smith, two, and X. collaris, Lepel., one ; I also took 
