Ships
- Aphis: scrapped Singapore, 1947
- Bee: flagship of Rear Admiral, Yangtze (RAY), sold in March 1939.
- Cicala: sunk by Japanese bombs on 21 December 1941.
- Cockchafer: sold for scrap in 1949, the last surviving member of the class.
- Cricket: heavily damaged by bombs on 29 June 1941; reportedly scrapped 1944; report false as sunk off Cyprus 1944.
- Glowworm: scrapped September 1928.
- Gnat: Damaged by U-boat, declared total loss, and then used as anti-aircraft platform. Scrapped 1946
- Ladybird: sunk on 12 May 1941 off Tobruk during World War II, then used as an anti-aircraft position
- Mantis: sold in January 1940 and subsequently scrapped.
- Moth: captured by the Japanese and renamed Suma, sunk by mines in Yangtze River on 19 March 1945.
- Scarab: scrapped in 1948.
- Tarantula briefly flagship of the British Pacific Fleet, expended as a target 1946
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