December, 1881. 1 i,"> 



NOTE ON AEPOPHILUS BONNAIREI, SIG-NORET; A GENUS AND 

 SPECIES OE REMIPTERA NEW TO BRITAIN. 



BY CHAS. O. "WATERHOUSE. 



Recently I took some British Hemiptera to Mr. Edward Saunders 

 for identification, and the first species in the box he determined to he 

 Mepophilus JBonnairei, of Signoret. The specimens are marked in the 

 late Mr. E. Smith's hand-writing, " Polperro, Cornwall," and they 

 appear to have been mounted by him, but I cannot ascertain whether 

 they were captured by him or not. A full description of the genus, 

 accompanied by a good figure with details, will be found in the 

 Tijdschrift voor Eutomologie, 1880, p. 1, pi. 1 ; but the original notice 

 is in the Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 1879, p. 

 Ixxiii (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xvi, p. 68), where the species is said to have 

 been found in the He de Re, at low water, under stones deeply 

 imbedded in the mud, and in company with the Coleopterous insect, 

 Aepus Bobinii. It measures two lines in length, is of rusty-yellow 

 colour, with dusky head and abdomen, the hemielytra a little longer 

 than the thorax and acuminate. Its appearance is more that of a 

 larva than an imago ; and I am not sure that a non-Hemipterist might 

 not at first sight mistake it for a narrow larval form of the common 

 house-bug, Acanthia lecttdaria. 



British Museum : 



November 3rd, 1881. 



ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES FROM EAST AFRICA. 



BY ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The two following species were obtained this year from a col- 

 lection of Lepidoptera sent home by Sir J. Kirk. 



NYMPHALIN.E. 

 Charaxes Kirkii, sp. n. 



? . Intermediate in character between C. Etlieocles and C. Viola, but most like 

 the latter, from which it differs in the form of the ochraceous belt across the 

 primaries, which agrees exactly with the white belt of C. Etlieocles in shape ; in the 

 almost entire absence of the purple shot at the base of the wings ; the primaries 

 being suffused towards the base, at the apex, and along the external border, with 

 rusty- or cupreous-brown; the greater width of the dark external area of these 

 wings ; the considerably narrower belt across the secondaries, which is almost central, 

 tapers slightly towards the abdominal area, its inner edge straight, its outer edge 

 slightly sinuous ; the upper part clouded with ochreous, the lower half indistinctly 

 bordered with lilac : owing to the narrowness of this belt, the external black area is 



