108 [October, 



Char axes Carter i, sp. n. 

 ? Cliaraxes cedreatis, Hewitson, Exot. Butt., 5, p. 40 ; pi. xx, 

 figs. 22, 23 (1876). 



$ . Above, velvety-black, the primaries with diffused olive-brown border ; a 

 small sub-costal steel-blue spot beyond the cell : secondaries with a sub-marginal 

 series of small greenish lunules with white centres ; two bright blue sub-anal spots 

 surmounted by white lunules ; a sub-marginal lunated greenish line : fringe white- 

 tipped ; head chocolate-brown with four white clots, collar and tegulae brown ; thorax 

 silky-black, abdomen velvet-black : under-surface exactly as in Hewitson's figure of 

 the under-surface of the female, excepting that the oblique white belt (common to 

 many females in this genus) is wanting, and the scarlet sub-marginal lines on the 

 secondaries are less prominent. Expanse of wings, $ , 2 in. 11 lin. ; $ , 3 in. 6 lin. 



Accra {Carter). Type, B. M. 



Hewitson's colouring of the outer border of the secondaries above 

 does not perfectly agree with that of our specimen, being represented 

 as salmon-tinted, whereas ours is greenish-grey, but curiously enough 

 this very discrepancy in coloration occurs in two males of C. Etheocles 

 in the Museum collection. 



The female C. Carteri is, unfortunately, slightly damaged, but this 

 is explained by Mr. Carter ; he says : — " I fear none of them are very 

 perfect ; I am obliged to get natives to make captures for me, and my 

 last employe complained that the ' spank of the wings was too brisk,' 

 whatever that might mean, on my complaining that he hardly ever 

 sent me a perfect specimen." 



British Museum : 



September, 1881. 



Drepana sicula. — Through a persistent search amongst its food plant since the 

 early part of August, I am glad to say I have been enabled to secure larva? of this 

 species, which have safely pupated. I have likewise to report a fairly successful 

 result from eggs obtained from moths bred at the end of May last, so perhaps cor- 

 respondents who have not hitherto received this species from me will take heart at 

 the announcement. I attribute my ill luck this summer to an undue forcing of the 

 pupae, which previously I had not attempted, as on an examination the moths were 

 found fully developed. — William H. G-rigg, 31, Cotham New Road, Bristol : 17th 

 September, 1881. 



JBoletobia ful iginaria at Lewisham. — A specimen of this insect was taken in a 

 cellar in Lewisham, on the 1st August, by a young man who works in my garden. 

 The cellar had not been disturbed for some two or three years, and in a box in the 

 cellar were two empty cocoons. Being in some doubt as to the insect, I sent it to 

 Mr. Weir for identification, and this gentleman very courteously at once set my 

 doubts at rest by assuring me of its genuine character. The insect is a female and 

 in excellent condition, except the antennae, which are slightly damaged. We tried 



