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f a rich brown, almost exactly the same colour as the external covering of the aggregate 



lass 



A sixth species was kindly given to me about three years ago by Mr. G. T. Carter, 

 ollected by him at Aburi, od the Gold Coast. The single specimen (a male) is now in 

 lie British Museum. 



The colouring is precisely similar to that of A. panda. It differs from all the described 

 pecies of this genus in having a single band only, crossing the anterior wings ; moreover, 

 his band, instead of being somewhat curved outwards, as is the first bar iu all other 

 nown species, is curved slightly inwards towards the base. The costal margin is brown 

 hroughout ; the dorsal margin also brown, except a very short space near the base. 

 Tie fringes of the anterior and posterior wings are also brown. On the underside the 

 ipper portion of the central band of the fore wings is visible, and there is a distinct 

 :ostal spot on the hind wing, which is not visible above. 



Anaphe Carteui, sp. n. (PL XLV. fig. 9.) 



Face and palpi ferruginous; head creamy white above; antenna} black. Thorax 

 jreamy white in front and at the sides, with a ferruginous blotch behind projecting 

 toward in the middle, in an obtuse wedge-shaped form, but not reaching to the head. 

 Pore wings creamy white, the margins narrowly ferruginous, with a narrow transverse 

 median band of the same colour, which is slightly bent inwards ; the fringes also 

 ferruginous. Hind wings creamy white, with ferruginous fringes, except on the 

 abdominal margin. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



Aburi, Gold Coast {Carter). 



I find in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society, June 5th, 1878 :— 



« Mr D Grei- Eutherford exhibited a series of large cocoons sent by Mr. George 

 Thomson from Mount Camaroons, West Africa, formed by the caterpillars of a species 

 of Bombyx allied to Anaphe panda, Bdv. They were taken at an elevation of 5000 

 feet above the level of the sea, and, judging from the nature of certain twigs and pieces 

 of native cord fastened to their exterior covering, appeared to have been found attached 

 to fences or to the eaves of houses. The cocoons are light brown in colour, and very 

 irregular in shape, rather flatfish, and vary in diameter from four to seven inches. 



"Each cocoon contains from 130 to 150 separate cocoons, each enclosing a larva or a 

 chrysalis in various stages of development, the least mature being near the centre of the 

 aggregate mass. To some of the cocoons were attached a case containing what appeared 

 to be the larvse of some species of Ichneumon or dipterous parasite.* All the smaller 

 cocoons are firmly bound together by layers of a coarse silken material, this aggregation 

 bein- enveloped by a thin brown lining almost of the consistency of parchment, the 

 whofe forming a compact mass, which again is surrounded by a loose silken tissue, while 

 a stron- covering of the same material envelops the whole. Erom this it would appear 

 that A panda like some other species of Bombycidce, is social, and that the caterpillars 

 unite in considerable numbers in order to form an aggregate cocoon of sufficient strength 



* These were subsequently proved to be Hyinenoptera, sp. Oryptus formosus, Bridle. 



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